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Friday, February 3, 2012, 7 p.m.
"An American in Paris"
Aspen Community Church
Aspen, Colorado
$20

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February 16, Thursday, 7 p.m.
James Welch, Organist
Jack Welch, Lecturer
J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference
Stanford Memorial Church
Free

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Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Welch-Hancock Duo
Brentwood United Methodist Church
Nashville, Tennessee
Free

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Friday, March 23, 2012, 7
Salt Lake Wasatch Stake Center
25th Anniversary of Schoenstein Organ
8170 Short Hills Drive (8170 South 3480 East)
Salt Lake City UT 84121
Free

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March 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
25th Anniversary of the Schoenstein Organ
Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church
666 Filbert St.,
San Francisco, CA
Free-will donation

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April 6, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Good Friday Concert
Handel's Messiah
The Valparaiso Singers
Menlo Park LDS Stake Center
1105 Valparaiso Ave., Menlo Park
Free

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Sunday, May 27, 2012, 3 p.m.
St. Denis Catholic Church
25th Anniversary of the Schoenstein Organ
2250 Avy Ave.
Menlo Park CA 94025

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Sunday, June 17, 2012, 12 noon
Notre-Dame d'Auteuil
4, rue Corot
Paris, France 75016
Free-will donation

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Friday, September 7, 2012, 7 p.m.
with Barbara Cramer, Soprano
First United Methodist Church
Bartlesville, Oklahoma

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Saturday, September 15, 2012, 1 p.m.
Danish Days Festival
Bethania Lutheran Church
603 Atterdag Rd., Solvang, California
Free-will donation

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Friday, October 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
30th Anniversary of Schoenstein Organ
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1201 Paseo Camarillo
Camarillo, California 93010
Free

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 8 p.m.
Halloween concert
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto, California
$10

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 11 a.m.
Music Teacher Association of California, Santa Clara Branch
Campbell United Methodist Church
1675 Winchester Blvd.
Campbell, CA
Free

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Monday, December 31, 2012, 8 p.m.
Annual New Year's Eve Concert
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto, California
$10

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Central Synagogue
123 E. 55th St.
New York, NY 10022
Free

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Sample Recital Programs

Below are descriptions of some specialty recitals that are offered. To request copies of any of these recital programs, contact James Welch.

Around the World -- in Under 80 Minutes. This entertaining program includes music from distant corners of the world ... Latin America, Asia, and Russia ... as well as the United States and Canada. Interesting for organists and non-organists alike.

A concert of Bach favorites. Entitled "Go Bach in Time" (or "Carry Me, Bach, to Old Thuringia"), this recital features all-time masterpieces under the headings Bach the Transcriber, Bach the Liturgist and Mathematician, Bach the Italian, Bach the Film Music Writer, Bach the Virtuoso, Bach as Wagner, Bach the Frenchman, The Chamber-Music Bach, and Bach the Ultimate. People come out of the woodwork for this program.

A program of Latin American Music. James Welch has spent several years living and researching the music of Latin America, principally in Mexico and Brazil. He received a Fulbright Award which took him to South America, where he catalogued 13 Cavaille-Coll organs and brought back many unpublished manuscripts. He has now edited and published three volumes of music by Mexican composers. Highly interesting material!

A program of Canadian organ music. There is a great deal of excellent music from Canada and few organists in the U.S. are familiar with it. Compositions by Willan, MacMillan, Bales, Cabena, Farnam; compositions from colonial Canada; music based on Native Indian tunes; a Schottisch inspired by the building of the Canada Pacific Railway; and some of Canada's newest compositions by Kloppers and Baker.

Beyond the Borders. A combination program of works from north and south of the U.S. borders -- music from both Canada and Mexico.

A Musical Heritage. James Welch has traced his tutorial lineage from Bach to the present (as everyone could do). This lineage includes Bach, Forkel, Kittel, Rinck, Mozart, Hesse, Lemmens, Widor, Guilmant, Vierne, Franck, Dupre, Tournemire, Schreiner, Langlais, Peeters, and Herbert Nanney. Not only were they all teachers, but they were composers as well. A recital with representative works from them is a good way to sustain audience interest.

The Ste. Clotilde Tradition. James Welch has done research on the succession of organists at Ste. Clotilde, including Franck, Pierne, Tournemire, Bonnal, and Langlais. Welch studied with Langlais in Paris. The recital includes representative works by these composers, including lesser-known works by Pierne and Bonnal.

A program of French Romantic works, including any of Vierne's six symphonies. (James Welch studied with Schreiner, who had studied with Vierne). Also Bonnet's "In Memoriam: Titanic" (a programmatic work about the sinking of the famous ship, written only months after the disaster); and works by Tournemire, Durufle, and Guy Weitz.

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James Welch
3330 Saint Michael Drive
Palo Alto, California 94306-3057
(650) 856-9700