Randall Atcheson at the Piano, “Carnegie Hall preview”

On November 16 Randall Atcheson, Minister of Music & Organist at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich will give his thirteenth piano concert at Carnegie Hall. On October 30th he will educate and entertain our audience with some of those pieces on both organ and piano, accompanied with commentary.

Atcheson has had a decidedly versatile career as a much-sought-after artist in the classics as well as in pop and the sacred repertoire. Early in life he was recognized as a prodigy on both piano and organ. He entered the Samford University School of Music, Birmingham, Alabama, at age 12 then was accepted at The Juilliard School where he became the only student in the history of Juilliard ever allowed to pursue and receive simultaneous degrees in piano and organ performance. Atcheson won the first Juilliard Organ Competition and subsequently gave the premiere performance on the new pipe organ in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.