Jackson Borges
Grace Episcopal Church 116 W. Washington Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
press release:
"The organ is, together with the clock, the most complex of all mechanical instruments developed before the Industrial Revolution. Among musical instruments its history is the most involved and wide-ranging, and its extant repertory the oldest and largest...No other instrument has inspired such avowed respect as the organ." (Sir George Grove in his famous Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1889)
Come, enjoy and discover the wonders and mysteries of this instrument.
Friday, APRIL 20, at 7:00 PM.
Jackson Borges is the organist & director of music for The Episcopal Parish of All Saints' Church & St. George's Chapel in Rehoboth Beach and Harbeson, Delaware. Prior to his appointment in 2014, Jackson held positions with Morristown United Methodist Church, The Princeton Girl Choir, and The American Boychoir, all in New Jersey. At All Saints' & St. George's, Jackson directs, plans, oversees, and executes all choral and instrumental music, ranging from the Medieval to the contemporary, for services and special events at both locations. He is also the artistic director and administrator of the "Concerts by the Sea" and annual "Summer Organ Recital" series, as well as the "Meditation in Music" Advent organ recital series, and "A Journey Through Lent" organ recital series, all of which present the finest musicians in the immediate area and abroad in programs ranging from Broadway to sacred, to instrumental and choral.
In addition to his church music ministry, Jackson is a frequent recitalist, both at home and abroad. He has been heard inimportant venues such as Grace and St. Mary's Cathedrals (San Francisco), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego), Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago), Grace Church (Episcopal) and Central Synagogue (New York City), the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Princeton University (New Jersey), Trinity Church (Boston), Longwood Gardens (Pennsylvania), and Khandallah Presbyterian Church (Wellington, New Zealand). Jackson's orchestral debut was made in 2005 as organ soloist for Joseph Jongen's monumental "Symphonie Concertante" with the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony. He has also appeared in Europe as duet partner and vocalist with American concert organist Stephen Tharp and has premiered new organ works and transcriptions by American composers Carolyn Hamlin, Daniel E. Gawthrop, and Jason Klein-Mendoza.