SEAN MAXWELL, ORGAN

Toccata Quinta – Georg Muffat (1653-1704)

Fuga – Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722)

Toccata Nona – Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)

Ground in C Minor – Henry Purcell (c.1659-1695) or William Croft (1678-1727)

Ciaccona – Bernardo Storace (c.1637-1707)

Tiento lleno séptimo tono por Alamire – Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712)

Batalha de 6° Tom – Pedro de Araújo (ca.1640-1705)

La Cannonade – Claude Balbastre (1724-1799)

Sean Maxwell, a native of West Virginia (USA), is a specialist in early music performance and has been

active as an organist and harpsichordist in Austria and Portugal since 2015. Maxwell is titular organist

of the Benedictine Monastery São Bento da Vitória in Porto, Portugal and has held organist positions at

Baumgartenberg Abbey (Austria) and in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston (USA). Maxwell is a

regular member of Musica Transalpina Baroque Ensemble, a leading period instrument orchestra and

choir in Los Angeles (USA) and with the orchestra and choir of the St. Cecilia Association of Sacred

Music (Austria). Maxwell has lectured internationally on historic technique and performance practice

in the 16th and 17th centuries, and as a researcher, he regularly facilitates performances with early music

ensembles in the USA, New Zealand, and elsewhere of forgotten works from British and European

archives. As a recitalist, Maxwell has performed in more than twenty countries, including England,

Scotland, Wales, USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Portugal,

and Ecuador, and will make his Asian debut this year with a recital and lecture in Tokyo, Japan.