The Tribune

INTERNATIONALLY renowned organist Nigel Potts and his wife, mezzo-soprano Sarah Rose Taylor, are scheduled to perform in a benefit concert at Christ Church Cathedral, Nassau, tomorrow night.

The official patrons of the event will be Governor-General Sir Arthur Foulkes and Lady Foulkes. Admission to the concert will be free, but guests will be expected to give donations.

The concert gets under way at 7.45pm.
The concert is being presented by the Organ Committee and the Development Fund Management Committee of Holy Cross Anglican Church.

It is to benefit the church’s initiative to purchase a new pipe organ and establish a school to teach and train new organists.
He has performed recitals across four continents, including distinguished venues in London, Cambridge (UK), Paris, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, as well as in Austria, Iceland, Taiwan and New Zealand.

He is an exponent of orchestral transcriptions, having written some of his own, most notably the Overture from G F Handel’s “The Occasional Oratorio” and certain works of Sergei Rachmaninov.
Presently, Mr Potts is organist and choirmaster of Christ and Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in New York City.

He is also a member of the music staff at the Saint Thomas Choir School and is on the programme committee of the New York City chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

As a Rotarian, he has given benefit concerts to raise funds for children from developing countries to have critical heart surgeries in New York.
Mr Potts will perform on the cathedral’s great Oberlinger organ works by G F Handel, J S Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninov, Max Reger and Alexandre Guilmant.
His wife, Ms Taylor – a British mezzo-soprano known for her warm and full toned ‘Germanic’ voice – has appeared as a recitalist in France, Germany, Italy, and across the US.

On the operatic stage, she has sung the roles of Marcellina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro; Sally in Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge”; Third Lady in Mozart’s “Die Zauberfl�te”; La Badessa in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Francisco in Bruce Saylor’s world premier one-act opera, “The Image Maker”.

Currently, she is studying with Neil Semer and coaches with former Metropolitan Opera conductor, Maestro Steven Crawford.

She also has degrees in French Studies from the British Institute in Paris and a Ma�trise in French Language Teaching from La Sorbonne, Paris.

Based in Manhattan, she is in increasing demand for her versatile voice and compelling musicianship.

Later this month she will be making her Carnegie Hall solo debut. And in the fall, she will be recording her debut CD of Wagner’s “Wesendonck Lieder” and Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures” to be released in 2015 on the MSR Classics label.
In Nassau, Ms Taylor will perform Elgar’s “Sea Pictures” accompanied by Mr Potts on piano.