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Audio Biography Performances Repertoire Discography Contact Information
Biography
Charleston, West Virginia native, T. Joseph Marchio is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at Boston Conservatory as a student of Dr. William Cutter.
He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Joseph is the Director of the Sandwich High School “Style” choir, an auditioned choir ensemble and the Sandwich Middle School Chorus.
He is also the Director of Music and Organist at the First Congregational Church in Chatham, MA and has served churches in Connecticut, Ohio, and West Virginia.
He has performed with choirs and as an organ soloist throughout the east coast and mid-western states.
He and his wife, Sarah, reside in Harwich with their son, Thomas.
Joseph's organ studies at Yale were with Dr. Martin Jean and choral conducting
studies with Marguerite Brooks. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Religious Studies and a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from
The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. At Wooster, he was inducted into
Pi Kappa Lambda, a music honorary, awarded the Theodore Presser Scholarship,
and was twice the recipient of the Richard T. Gore Prize for organ students.
Organ studies at Wooster were with John Russell and Dr. Thomas Gouwens.
Joseph also studied organ with Todd Wilson at the Cleveland Institute of
Music during his last year at Wooster. Other organ teachers include E. Wayne Eich of Charleston, West Virginia and David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York.
During his studies at Wooster, he was involved in singing with and conducting
the Wooster Chorus and the Wooster Choral Union. In 2002 and 2003, he conducted
Handel's Messiah and Faure's Requiem with orchestra in Connecticut. In the
coming year he will be performing concerts in Chatham, Falmouth, Harwich, Sandwich and West Barnstable, Massachusetts; Wallingford, Connecticut; Charleston, West Virginia; Chicago, Iillinois; New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
and Chicago, Illinois.
~ December 2006
Recent and Upcoming Performances
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TBA
Organ Recital
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Glenville Presbyterian Church
Charleston, West Virginia
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TBA
Canadian Tour:
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St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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TBA
Canadian Tour:
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Nova Scotia, Canada
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| 2007
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February 25, 3:00 p.m.
Chatham Music Club:
Keyboard Concert
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First Congregational Church,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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August 26
Dedicatory Organ Recital
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Glenville Presbyterian Church
Charleston, West Virginia
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November 30, 7:30 p.m.
West Parish Organ Recital Series:
3rd Annual Christmas Organ Recital
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West Parish Meetinghouse,
West Barnstable, Massachusetts
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December 31, 10:00 p.m.
First Night Chatham:
Organ Recital
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First Congregational Church,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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| 2006
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April 23, 4:00 p.m.
Organ Concert
Admission: Free
(offering collected for Ronald McDonald House)
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Charleston Baptist Temple,
Charleston, West Virginia
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May 26, 12:10 p.m.
Noonday Concerts
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Fourth Presbyterian Church,
Chicago, Illinois
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November 12, 3:00 p.m.
Music and Musings "At the Meetinghouse":
Ensemble International de la joie de la Musique
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West Parish Meetinghouse,
West Barnstable, Massachusetts
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November 17, 7:30 p.m.
Benefit Concert
Ensemble International de la joie de la Musique
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First Church of Christ
Sandwich, Massachusetts
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November 18, 7:30 p.m.
Benefit Concert
Ensemble International de la joie de la Musique
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First Congregational Church of Falmouth
Falmouth, Massachusetts
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November 19, 3:00 p.m.
Appearance at the Members Recital (AGO)
Ensemble International de la joie de la Musique
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First Congregational Church of Chatham,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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December 1, 1:00 p.m.
Chatham Women's Club:
Organ Concert and Carol Sing with T. Joseph Marchio
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First Congregational Church of Chatham,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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December 1, 7:30 p.m.
West Parish Organ Recital Series:
2nd Annual Advent Organ Recital
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West Parish Meetinghouse,
West Barnstable, Massachusetts
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December 31, 10:00 p.m.
First Night Chatham:
Concert with Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
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First Congregational Church,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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| 2005
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August 28, 4:00 p.m.
Organ Recital |
First Congregational Church,
Chatham, Massachusetts
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December 2, 7:30 p.m.
West Parish Organ Recital Series:
An Advent Organ Recital |
West Parish Meetinghouse,
West Barnstable, Massachusetts
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Sample Repertoire
* mp3 format
Noel X
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
 Suite Gothique pour Grand Orgue, Op. 25
Praeludium in E Minor
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211
Christ Jesus Who Maketh Us Glad
Festive Trumpet Tune
Variations on "America" (1891)
Voluntary in G Major
Praeludium Op. 87, no. 1
Voluntary
Chorale Prelude
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Louis-Claude d'Aquin
J. S. Bach
Léon Boëllmann
Nicolaus Bruhns
Dietrich Buxtehude
Marcel Dupré
David German
Charles Ives
Samuel Jackson
Simon Sechter
John Stanley
J. G. Walther
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Discography
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Organs of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are toured by eight organists to document on 27 tracks the sounds of 13 organs built 1762 to 1999.
Builders include Snetzler, Hutchings, Roche, Casavant, Hook, Holbrook, Beaudry, Clarke, Andover, Aeolian-Skinner, Stephen Russell, and Rodgers (with pipes).
View Tracks
The CD is available through the Organ Historical Society for $14.98
or through the First Congregational Church of Chatham for a donation of $15 to benefit their pipe organ.
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