FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MARYGROVE COLLEGE HOSTS JOANNE CLARK’S ORGAN RECITAL NOVEMBER 4

DETROIT, October 14, 2005--Marygrove College presents a faculty recital by Joanne Vollendorf Rickards Clark, organist, on Friday, November 4, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. in Marygrove’s Sacred Heart Chapel. The recital is free and open to the public.

She will be playing music by J. S. Bach, Charles-Marie Widor and the premiere of a piece by Geoffrey Stanton, Marygrove’s composer-in-residence, on a recently renovated three-manual forty-rank Casavant organ.

Dr. Clark is the music department’s new Coordinator of Sacred Music and the Minister of Organ at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.

She holds degrees in Church Music and Organ from St. Olaf Lutheran College, Northfield, Minnesota and from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

A long-time Detroit area musician, she has taught at the University of Detroit Mercy and was formerly the Minister of Music at Christ Episcopal Church-Detroit. Under the direction of Dr. Clark, the Christ Church choir performed at Regional American Choral Directors Conventions and at the Midwest Music Educators Convention. She has been a featured presenter at professional music organizations and community groups all over the country speaking on Russian Orthodox liturgy, professional concerns for musicians, music for special services and music by women composers.

She was the featured harpsichord soloist in The Phillips Concerto for harpsichord at Christ Church Cranbrook in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the St. Jehoshaphat Award for her work with Detroit city children. She is a featured performer on the compact disc “Historic Organs of Michigan” (available at area music stores or from The Organ Historical Society) and several recordings of the Fort Street Chorale.

Marygrove College is an independent private liberal arts college sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) in a unique, diverse urban setting. Situated on 53 acres of land in one of Detroit’s finest neighborhoods, more than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music and the arts. Located at 8425 W. McNichols Road at Wyoming in Detroit, the Sacred Heart Chapel is on the main floor of the Liberal Arts Building in the center of campus.

Call 313-927-1538 for more information or visit www.marygrove.edu.

# # #