by Timothy Robson

Italian organist and scholar Edoardo Bellotti, a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, played a highly musical and satisfying concert on Saturday afternoon as part of the 83rd BW Bach Festival in Berea. He performed on the 1974 Rudolf Janke organ at the United Methodist Church of Berea. The north German character of the organ fit Bellotti’s program. Bellotti is also a noted improvisor, and at the end of the concert he created two excellent examples of his skills, both in Baroque style. [Read more…]