Palm Sunday

2 April 2023

5:30 P.M.

Ava Turner

Cheshire, Connecticut

Quis est iste Rex Gloriæ?

Teschner: All Glory, Laud, and Honor (St. Theodulph)

Bach: Valet will ich Dir geben (BWV 415)

Listz: movements from Via Crucis

Demessieux: Hosanna Filio David (from 12 Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes)

Guilmant: Méditation sur le Stabat Mater

Ava Turner began learning instrumental music at the age of five, in her hometown of Ridgefield, Connecticut. She studied classical piano under Edith Sullivan until completion of high school in 2020, and then started as a piano performance major at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, studying under Dr. Ivo Kaltchev. Ava has performed at Steinway Hall and Weill Hall, and has won many competitions, such as the Gifted Young People’s Concert of the Leschetizky Association, the Deborah Kahan Competition, and the Schubert Club Young Musicians Festival. She gave her first solo recital in 2019 at Richter House in Danbury. During her time at CUA, she also studied organ under Ronald Stolk. Ava also sings alto in the St. Patrick’s Choir, having learned chant and polyphony under the guidance of David Hughes in the St. Mary’s (Norwalk) Student Schola in middle and high school.