Organist
"Throughout the program Tarrant played with absolute authority, a fine ear for sonorities
and, where called for, real panache." Dallas Morning News, February 15, 2023
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Music at Mid-day
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
30 minute organ recitals offered on the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 12:30 p.m. Mr. Tarrant will play on
October 28
December 9
April 28
Music of César Franck
Two half-hour programs featuring organ music of Franck in observance of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
Program I - Sunday, September 18, 3:15 p.m.
Fantaisie en ut (first version) - Andantino - Final
Program II - Sunday, November 20, 3:15 p.m.
Trois pièces - Fantaisie en la, Cantabile, Pièce héroïque
October 10, 8:00 p.m.
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fantaisie en ut (first version) - Franck
Vier Skizzen, Op. 58 - Schumann
Symphonie VII - Widor
December 4, 7:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan
February 13, 9:00 -11:00 a.m.
Masterclass
Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas
February 14, 7:30 p.m.
St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, Texas
Robert T. Anderson Recital Series (Dallas Chapter AGO)
May 4, 12 Noon
Grace Episcopal Church, Providence, Rhode Island
DEBUT SOLO RECORDING
Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonie VII,
Op. 42, No. 3 and
Lied--Gaston Litaize
Impromptu, Clair de lune,
and Toccata--
Louis Vierne
available from
https://www.ravencd.com/merchantmanager/index.php
from Gramophone Magazine, June, 2018:
"He {Tarrant} minimises the first movement’s episodic tendencies by treating the big chordal passages as signposts, while sculpting contrapuntal sequences in forward-moving arcs. He also brings more pliability to the second-movement Andantino agitato’s counterpoint, although you strain to hear the pianissimos without turning up the volume beforehand. The Allegretto has a fetching lilt and attractive linear independence; indeed, the pedal staccatos occasionally sound as though they were plucked. Tarrant shapes the fourth movement from an eagle-eyed, big picture perspective, with the long melodies in the foreground and the undulating accompaniment unfolding in fluid paragraphs."
read the full Gramophone review at:
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/widor-organ-symphony-no-7-tarrant