VERO BEACH — The Community Concert Series is pleased to present organist Alcee Chriss III in concert on the 71 rank Lively-Fulcher Pipe Organ at the Community Church of Vero Beach.
Chriss will perform Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015, at 4 p.m. The concert is free with the opportunity to give through a free will offering.
Chriss has performed in the United States and Europe and is emerging as an outstanding young concert artist of virtuosity and versatility. He has won top prizes at international competitions, receiving First Prize and Audience Prize in the 2014 Miami International Organ Competition and First Prize in the 2013 Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition.
In his native Texas, he won first place in the 2013 Regional Competition for Young Organists, sponsored by the Austin AGO Chapter. He is a graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he earned the Bachelor of Music in organ performance and a Master of Music in historical performance (organ and harpsichord), studying organ with James David Christie, Olivier Latry, and Marie-Louise Langlais, and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins. He served as the 2011 organ intern at the Church of the Transfiguration (Episcopal) in Dallas, where he studied church music under Joel Martinson.
Chriss is currently the Artist-In-Residence for the summer of 2015 at the Community Church of Vero Beach.
