A prize-winning young organist, Alexander Leonardi will perform works by Joseph Jongen, Cesar Franck, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Thomas Kerr, Mary Beth Bennett and Louis Vierne on the Great Auditorium Pipe Organ. He is entering his third year at the Curtis Institute of Music and has participated in several competitions, including the annual International Organ Competition at the Wells School of Music at West Chester University where he won first prize, and the 2020 Brooklyn AGO competition where he won second prize. Alexander was also the recipient of the Award for Music Theory and Ear Training at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. He currently serves as the Michael Stairs Organ Scholar at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, PA.