May 27 2020
Summer Series Organ Concert - Fred MacArthur, organ & Richard Watson, trumpet

Summer Series Organ Concert - Fred MacArthur, organ & Richard Watson, trumpet

Presented by Methuen Memorial Music Hall at Online/Virtual Space

Fred MacArthur is in demand in Greater Boston as a recitalist and freelance accompanist. His previous positions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island include at Old South Church, Boston, and Brown University. He has performed throughout the U.S., Italy, Germany, and Israel and has represented the United States multiple times in the International Organ Festival in Morelia, Mexico. He majored in church music and organ at Boston University where he studied with renowned organist George Faxon.
Richard Watson has appeared as soloist with the Nashua, Granite State, Worcester, and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Salem and North Shore Philharmonic Orchestras, the New England Chamber Orchestra, and the Waldstadt Kammerorchester Karlsruhe.  In addition to his work as a soloist, Mr. Watson serves as Principal Trumpet of both the Nashua and Granite State Symphony Orchestras and Assistant Principal of the Boston Philharmonic.  As an orchestral musician, he can be heard on recordings with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Boston Philharmonic, the Albany Symphony, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and on the Sony Classical video series, Marsalis on Music.
Reviews of his performances have hailed him as an "exceedingly gifted" trumpeter whose playing is "stunning perfection".  Wynton Marsalis has complimented him for his "wide open, soulful sound".

Admission Info

Live-streaming on www.youtube.com/c/methuenmemorialmusichall .

Phone: 978-685-0693

Additional time info:

Please note our NEW EARLIER START time. 

Dates & Times

2020/05/27 - 2020/05/27

Location Info

Online/Virtual Space