New Dyer Organ in Concert

Andrew Kotylo, Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut,  will present a concert on the new Randall Dyer & Assoc. organ at Central Presbyterian Church, Bristol, Virginia, at 3 PM on Sunday 16 May. Co-sponsored by the Northeast Tennessee/Southwest Virginia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, this will be the first public performance on the instrument.

With three manuals, 41 ranks, the new organ incorporates some vintage ranks from the church's previous 1961 Moller instrument. New principals, flutes and reed stops create a full and rich ensemble, specifically designed for choral and congregational accompaniment, but quite capable of supporting the literature. The instrument incorporates Dyer's Blackinton-style electro-pneumatic slider-and-pallet chests.