Organ recital in Berkeley

Please join us for this ongoing organ recital series. Please note that we'll attend the evensong (a sung church service) at 4pm. It may involve participation (singing and speaking) but you don't have to participate.

A festive reception will follow the program. Parking is available in the parish lot at 2315 Ellsworth. The concert is free but donations are welcomed: https://stmarksberkeley.org/music/friends-of-music/

Second Sunday Evensong & Organ Recital

Sunday, October 13
Congregational Evensong - 4:00pm
Organ Recital: Mina Marie Jelinek - approx. 4:40pm

The program will include:

Ave Maria Stella, Livre d’Orgue | Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703)
i. Plein jeu
ii. Fugue
iii. Duo
iv. Dialogue sur les grands jeux

Ave Maria | Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)

Chorale Partita: Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 770 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Souvenir | John Cage (1912–1992)

Toccata in F, BuxWV 156 | Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)

Mina Marie Jelinek is a performer, improviser, composer, scholar, and choral conductor holding awards, prizes, and distinctions to her name. She is a graduate of both The Juilliard School––having studied with Paul Jacobs––and The Eastman School of Music––having studied with David Higgs, Nathan Laube, Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter. She is a former student of both l’École du Chœur Grégorien de Paris and le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where her teachers included: Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, and Laszlo Fassang. At CNSMDP she received the highest academic mention “très bien” in organ performance, organ improvisation, and Gregorian Chant. Some of her performance venues in France included: la Chappelle Royale de Versailles, l’Abbaye de St-Ouen (Rouen), St-Eustache, and la Cathédrale Notre- Dame de Paris. Mina Marie took first prize in the RCYO competition and subsequently performed in two recitals for the 2016 National American Guild of Organists Convention (Houston, TX). With an earnest heart, Mina Marie carries out a vocation to Sacred Music. As an instrument herself, she wishes to share the beauty of this transcendent music––which has inspired and directed her––to nourish, empower, and uplift others. Most recently, she served as Interim Director of Music and Organist at Church of the Epiphany on the Upper East Side (Manhattan), and has served roles at Christ Church (Rochester, NY); Holy Trinity Church, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC), among other churches.

Mina Marie is currently Director of Music at St Aidan’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Her passion and inspiration is embedded in Gregorian Chant and Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony. She loves to cook and is fascinated by the human brain. She worked as a Medical Assistant in Neuropsychiatry.