Tom Mueller, Professor of Music, Music Department Chair, & University Organist Concordia University Irvine, California, presents the Complete Leipzig Chorales aka “The Great Eighteen” as part of BACH-A-THON 2025 at Christ Cathedral.
PROGRAM
Fantasia super 'Komm, Heiliger Geist', BWV 651
An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654
Trio super 'Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend', BWV 655
O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 656
Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 657
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 658
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Trio super 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland', BWV 660
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661
Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662
Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 663
Trio super 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr', BWV 664
Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665
Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 666
Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 667
Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668
Tom Mueller serves as Professor of Music, Music Department Chair, and University Organist at Concordia University in Irvine, California. He is an active recitalist, composer, and educator. In 2010, he performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach in a series of seventeen concerts in his native state of Maine. He has received numerous commissions for new choral and liturgical works, and performances of his compositions have been broadcast on national radio and television. As an organist, his recording credits include Scott Perkin’s A New England Requiem and O Beauty Ever Ancient Ever New by the Choir of St. James’, both of which were released on the Gothic label. His organ music is published by ECS and CPH. Mueller earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music. He also holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame (M.S.M. in organ), and the University of Maine at Augusta (B.M. in jazz composition and piano), where he graduated summa cum laude.