Canadian organist John Paul Farahat leads a dual career as performer and pedagogue, committed to music performance and improvisation in all its forms through the organ and its music.
He is Director of Music and Principal Organist of Saint Basil’s Church, the collegiate church of the University of Saint Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, is on faculty as Organ Instructor at Saint Michael’s Choir School, and is a cross-listed adjunct organ faculty member at Emmanuel College of Victoria University.
His international organ career has taken him throughout North America and Europe, performing in Paris (Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Eustache, La Madeleine), Toulouse (Cathédrale Saint-Etienne), Montpellier (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre), London (Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul’s Cathedral), Cambridge (Trinity College), Saint Andrews (Saint Salvator’s), Berlin (Berliner Dom), Potsdam (Nikolaikirche), Helsinki (Kallion Kirkko), Pori (Keski-Porin Kirkko), San Francisco (Grace Cathedral), New York City (Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue), and Washington DC (Basilica of the National Shrine), among others.
Listen to the Fantasia and Fugue in g minor, BWV 542, by Johann Sebastian Bach