St. John’s Organ Concert features Ray Cornils on July 30 at 7:30 pm

St. John’s Organ Society is pleased to announce the 33rd Summer Recital Series on Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, E. & G. G. Hook’s magnificent Opus 288, at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church in Bangor. These hour-long recitals occur on Thursday evenings at 7:30. St. John’s Catholic Church is located at 207 York Street in Bangor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.
The July 30 concert features Ray Cornils from West Bath, Maine. Cornils will perform music of Price, Guilmant, Cooman and Weaver.
Ray Cornils served as Portland’s tenth Municipal Organist from 1990 to 2017. For thirty years he was Minister of Music at First Parish Church, UCC, Brunswick, Maine. Ray has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, South America and New Zealand. He has taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine, among others. As an active member of the American Guild of Organists, he has held many leadership roles, including Convention Coordinator for the 2014 National Convention in Boston. Since his retirement in 2017 Ray has served several churches as interim organist/choir director and continues to concertize from time to time. He, his husband David, and their miniature dachshund divide their time between the Maine coast and Ecuador’s Andes mountains.