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Video: Craig Cramer playing Herbert Howells Psalm Prelude No. 1 Set II at Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn, NY

On September 5, 2014 Organist Cramer Cramer and Baroque Trumpeter John Thiessen performed works for organ and trumpet a Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn. They played works for trumpet and organ by Argangelo Corelli, Jean-Joseph Mouret and Jeremiah Clark. Craig Cramer play Samuel Barber's Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn, Op. 34 (1958), Herbert Howells's Psalm Prelude No. 1, Set II and Auguste Fauchard's Le Mystère de Noël. 

Craig Cramer is professor of organ at the University of Notre Dame. He has performed in forty-four of the United States as well as in Canada and throughout Europe. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and the Eastman School of Music where he earned the D.M.A. in Organ. The Eastman School also awarded him the prestigious Performer's Certificate in Organ. He has studied with Russell Saunders, William Hays, James Drake, David Boe, and André Marchal in Paris. Cramer's performances are frequently heard on American Public Media's program, Pipedreams. He has fifteen CD recordings to his credit on the Arkay, Dominant, Dulcian, Motette-Ursina, Organeum, Naxos and JAV labels.

John Thiessen has been described by the New York Times as "the gold standard of Baroque trumpet playing in this country", John Thiessen appears as soloist and principal trumpet with the leading period ensembles, including Boston Early Music Festival, the American Classical Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Highlights this season include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2 with Handel & Haydn Society, a DVD of Handel's Messiah with American Bach Soloists, and a European tour with Boston Early Music Festival. Mr. Thiessen serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the American Bach Soloists Academy, and has recorded extensively for Sony Classical Vivarte, Telarc, EMI, BMG, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, London Decca, Analekta, CBC, and Denon.

Craig Cramer's live performance showing his image projected on a large screen in the nave of Our Lady of Refuge so the audience can see him play