08/20/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/21/2024 09:04
Performance Music at The University of Scranton will host "In Recital: Duo Corgano", with David Lao Ball, organ, and Trevor Nuckols, horn.
The award-winning, Juilliard-trained organist Ball, and leading soloist and chamber musician will perform on Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m in the Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue. Admission is free and the concert is open to the public with seating on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Ball is a widely acclaimed performer who has recorded on many of the world's leading concert hall and church instruments, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has been featured in The Diapasonand American Organist; broadcasted on "PipeDreams" and WQXR; and appeared in Juilliard's FOCUS! Festival.
He won the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists; and was named one of The Diapason's 2017 Class of 20 Under 30, a peer-selected group of young people at the forefront of the organ field. Ball serves as Cathedral Organist and Head of Music Ministry at Christ Cathedral in the Diocese of Orange, California (formerly the Crystal Cathedral,) where he is primary steward of The Hazel Wright Organ, the fifth largest organ in the world, and serves as Musical Director of a variety of concert series.
Nuckols performs across the globe. The New York Times hailed Nuckols as "outstanding" and an "excellent soloist." He has performed and recorded as solo horn of the Munchener Kammerorchester and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also performed as guest principal horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bad Reinchenhall Philharmoniker and the Philharmonie Salzburg.
Nuckols earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and a postgraduate diploma from the Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg. He has won first prize at The International Horn Society's Premiere Soloist Competition, The Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition, and The IHS Barry Tuckwell Award.