Grant Edwards - A Musical Feast (2004)

Organist Grant Edwards plays an eclectic program of rarely-heard organ masterpieces upon the Bond pipe organ of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, Washington USA. Grant Edwards is organist at First Congregational United Church of Christ in downtown Portland, Oregon, having served there since 1995. He received his B.A. in Organ from Lewis & Clark college in 1994, where he was a student of Dr. Lee Garrett. During the course of his studies he also lived and studied for sixteen months in the cities of Munich and Weimar, Germany. He is also an excellent choral singer, and has been ­featured as a soloist in performances with the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus and other ensembles. No stranger to edgier styles of music, he enjoys composing as well, especially vocal settings of poetry. Few might suspect his ­favorite diversion from church music, however: a tendency to ­indulge in karaoke on a regular basis. The art of organ building is another long-standing interest, and the presence of many exceptional ­instruments by Richard L. Bond in the Pacific Northwest influenced him to learn the art himself. He has subsequently been a craftsman at Bond Organ Builders since 1993, and assisted in the construction, installation, and tonal regulation of the instrument recorded here.