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
September 11, 2026
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
October 9, 2026
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
December 5, 2026
Noel Night in Midtown Detroit
Mr. Tarrant plays 30-minute recitals in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
December 11, 2026
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
January 22, 2027
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
April 9, 2027
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
April 25, 2027
John and Alice Butler Pipe Organ Recital Series
The University of Dubuque, 3:00 p.m.
Dubuque, Iowa
June 25, 2027
Music at Mid-day, 12:30 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
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