LEWISTON —The noontime summer concert series at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul will conclude on Wednesday, Aug. 17, with a performance by Portland municipal organist Ray Cornils.
Cornils has also served as minister of music, since 1987, at First Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick, where he has built an extensive music program of five vocal and two handbell choirs.
He is also a member of the music faculties of the University of Southern Maine, Bowdoin College and the Portland Conservatory of Music, where he teaches organ, harpsichord and related classes.
Born in Sterling, Ill., Cornils received a bachelor’s degree in music from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
He has performed in concert throughout the United States and in Germany, Russia, France, Spain, New Zealand and Ecuador. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society, and has performed as a soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with Musica Tricinia, a group of two trumpets and organ.
Cornils’ program will feature works by Bach, Mendelsson and Walton. The half-hour concerts at 12:15 p.m. at the basilica are free.
For more information, call Scott Vaillancourt at 240-9419 or visit www.SaintsPeterandPaul.US.
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