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San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society
With words such as “sizzling”, iconoclastic”, “impeccable”, and “transcendent” used to describe his performances, Raúl Prieto Ramírez is the first Spanish organist in recent times to establish himself among the elite of the international pipe organ scene. The powerful personality, passionate expressiveness, gift for communication, and outstanding technique of Spanish organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez make him shine in a wide range of repertoire and styles (
Los Angeles Philharmonic).
In December 2017, Raúl Prieto Ramírez was appointed the San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society, where he presides over the famed Austin organ at the city’s Balboa Park Pavilion the largest open-air musical instrument in the world. Mr. Ramírez is the eighth Civic Organist to serve San Diego on the Spreckels organ bench.
Bach’s Birthday Celebration Concert
Spreckels Organ Society and Raúl Prieto Ramírez present Bach’s Birthday Celebration Concert, Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m. PDT.
San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez plays an all-Bach program, filmed at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion and various locations around Balboa Park. The no-cost webcast concert will premiere with a bilingual live chat March 21, 2 p.m., at balboaparkconcerts.org.
The program includes Bach’s famous
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, the aria from
Orchestral Suite in D, and more.
It’s been almost a year since the COVID-19 shut down, and during that time the nonprofit Spreckels Organ Society and Raul Prieto Ramirez have launched a series of fully produced, weekly online concerts.
Stephen Price joins Seven Eight Artists March 8, 2021
Seven Eight Artists announces the addition of
Stephen Price to its roster. Price currently teaches organ, church music, and music theory at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, where he succeeded Raúl Prieto Ramírez. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is coordinator of the Sursa American Organ Competition.
Price attended Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree and served as organ scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut. Following his undergraduate studies, Price received a Fulbright scholarship to travel to Toulouse, France, where he studied historical and modern performance practices of French organ music. Price then attended Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, earning the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees, studying with Janette Fishell. Price serves as sub-dean o