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Jack Mitchener has been praised for playing that is technically brilliant, yet expressive and poetic. According to The American Organist, “Mitchener brings music to life with his supple rhythmic control, clear phrasing, energy, and sensitivity.” Of his most recent recording on a historic Tannenberg organ, the International Record Review of London asserted: “Superb…an impressive and rather moving listening experience.” He is Professor of Organ, University Organist, Chairman of the Keyboard Department, and Director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music in the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University, as well as Organist and Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. Philip (Episcopal) in Atlanta.
From the Critics
“Mitchener played throughout the evening with polish and style, whether in the varied French works (F. Couperin, Dupré, Franck, Messiaen, Milhaud, and Saint-Saëns) or in Bach’s Great Fugue in G Major (the Gigue). Mitchener’s playing matched the diverse challenges this program set. The audience was immediately on its feet as the Dupré notes died away.”
(The Greensboro News and Record)
“Mitchener’s playing was always poetic and quietly confident. He brought a particularly rare eloquence to Franck’s Chorale in B minor.”
(Classical Voice of North Carolina [online])
“An excellent recital by Jack Mitchener, whose program displayed a technique both facile and expressive and an originality that never lapsed into the mannered.”
(The American Organist)
“Mitchener brings music to life with his supple rhythmic control, clear phrasing, energy, and sensitivity.”
(The American Organist)
About His Recordings
“Superb…an impressive and rather moving listening experience…an important disc in musical terms. Jack Mitchener’s performances are very good indeed, in terms of tempos, registration, and in phrasing. Each of the pieces on this disc benefits from this fine musician’s playing…This very well-filled CD is a rare treat.”
(The International Record Review, reprinted in The Organ, Feb-April 2010)
“This recording is like a breath of fresh air…Jack Mitchener’s playing is brilliant and sensitive.”
(The Diapason)
“Mitchener brings all of this music to life with his supple rhythmic control, clear phrasing, energy, and sensitivity.”
(The American Organist)
“Mitchener has a flair for the Italian style, effected through his clear articulations and dramatic sense of timing. He expertly brings out the unique features of each variation [Pachelbel, Ciacona in F minor] while also melding them into a larger structure. The intimacy of the Pastorella [Bach] benefits from the chamber-like quality of the pipe voicing and from the organist’s sensitive contrasts of touch.”
(HORP Report)
Romantic to Modern, Raven #OAR-958
Dulcet Tones: Jack Mitchener Plays the Largest Tannenberg Organ, Raven #OAR-950
Jack Mitchener Plays Christmas Organ Music, Raven #OAR-936