Inaugural Pipe Organ Concert & Reception: Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry, Howard University
Sunday, October 22, 2023 | 2:00 pm
Music Arts Center, Concert Hall
Join us as we celebrate the beautiful new Music Building and the inaugural concert on William & Mary's new pipe organ, Opus 652 from the Peragallo Pipe Organ Builders, with a performance by Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry, Master Instructor of Organ at Howard University. A sparkling beverage and dessert reception will immediately follow the performance.
About Dr. Terry
Dr. Terry is a critically-acclaimed concert organist who has concertized throughout the United States and the Caribbean. He has been broadcast several times on Public Radio International’s Pipedreams. He was a featured recitalist at the 1997 Region III American Guild of Organists (AGO) Convention in Washington, DC, and the 2001 Region IV Convention of the AGO in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Terry was also a featured recitalist at the 1998 American Guild of Organists National Convention in Denver and at the 2006 American Guild of Organists National Convention in Chicago.
Mickey Thomas Terry holds degrees from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Terry’s principal organ teachers have been Clarence Watters, Charles Callahan, and Ronald Stolk (Improvisation). He was the Second Prize winner of the 9th Annual Clarence Mader National Organ Competition (Los Angeles/Pasadena), and a finalist in both the Michigan International Organ Competition (University of Michigan Music School-Ann Arbor), and the Flint Competition (Flint, Michigan).
About the Organ
William & Mary’s new pipe organ, Opus 652 from the Peragallo Pipe Organ Builders of Patterson, NJ, is of three manual and pedal design with 24 ranks that include a total of 1,002 speaking pipes. The pipes of the instrument are enclosed in a free-standing hand-crafted casework on the far end of the music room. The key desk is in traditional Skinner draw knob style constructed of dark mahogany. The draw knobs are of rosewood with maple inserts. The key coverings are of padauk and maple.