Local organist to perform at USA concert

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Zimbabwean organist Prince Nyatanga has been selected to be the guest soloist at the Year 2014 Martin Luther King Commemorative Concert, scheduled for January 19 at Trinity Baptist Church in Los Angeles, USA.

Zimbabwean organist Prince Nyatanga has been selected to be the guest soloist at the Year 2014 Martin Luther King Commemorative Concert, scheduled for January 19 at Trinity Baptist Church in Los Angeles, USA.

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Nyatanga will perform at the 29th edition of the contest that is coordinated by the local chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority which is an integral part of the King Week Schedule of events.

After expenses, all remaining income of the concert is disseminated in the spirit of Martin Luther King, for scholarship funds for young musicians and to organisations that serve the community throughout the United States.

Nyatanga is currently studying Organ performance and related disciplines at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of David Higgs in New York. He began his musical education at the Peterhouse School in Marondera.

Nyatanga has already won recognition for his performances.

He was winner of the 2011 organ scholarship competition of the Queens-Nassau County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, first place winner in the Rochester — New York Chapter, 2013 American Guild of Organists (AGO) Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists, and first place winner of the 2013 National NANM organ competition held in Nashville, TN.

The young organist is a member of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Royal College of Organists England, Royal Schools of Church Music and a former esteemed member of the Manhattan Choral Ensemble.

In September 2013, Prince was awarded the 2013 Robert Carwithen Music Foundation Scholarship and is currently a member of the Christ Church Choir and the Schola Cantorum in Rochester, New York where he was recently appointed as a Roy E. VanDelinder, Jr. Organ Fellow working under the direction of Stephen Kennedy.