Arsenal Duo in Concert

The final event for St. Andrew Presbyterian Church's Melodious Harmony concert series will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday May 4, when the Arsenal Duo presents a concert of piano and organ music. Composed of organist (and former St. Andrew Director of Music) Edward Alan Moore and pianist Nathan Carterette, the Arsenal Duo presents concerts that unite their respective instruments in a unique and spectacular fashion. The  concert will feature solo works for piano and organ by Liszt and Mendelssohn and will close with a spectacular duet  arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

The Arsenal Duo, formed in 2013, was scheduled to play at St. Andrew in the spring of 2020, but that year’s global pandemic derailed those plans. Four years later, we are thrilled they are finally able to bring their skills to St. Andrew’s grand piano and the Krapf Organ!

Pianist Nathan Carterette has distinguished himself in the concert world by performing a huge range of works from Elizabethan keyboard music to music written today. His innovative programming has inspired audiences to approach unfamiliar music with open ears and familiar music with new appreciation. He has performed extensively both domestically and abroad, including recitals in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, Hamburg, and Munich, Germany.

Nathan will also be performing in the University of Iowa Duo Piano Extravaganza on Wednesday April 10 at the Voxman School of Music.

More than two decades after leaving Iowa City, Edward Alan Moore — better known simply as “Ed” to many St. Andrew folks — is now Organist and Music Director at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. He previously was a member of the organ faculty at the Catholic University of America Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in Washington, D.C.; director of Music Ministries at Lewinsville Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia; and minister of music at National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C.. As a recitalist, Ed was the first organist chosen to perform on the Millennium Stage concert series at the Kennedy Center in 2004. Sites for his recitals include New York City, Atlanta, Princeton, Los Angeles, and Interlochen, Michigan.