Baroque Improvisation

I found this video while cleaning out a folder. Looks like I improvised it while the camera was running for my eighth episode on sequences. Not sure why I didn't post it then. I must not have been happy with it, but there are no career-ending mistakes. A parallel octave here and there, and the final tenor entrance was missing a note.

Lessons Applications, Inquiries, Comments for Nicola: nsc@juilliard.edu; ncanzano@umich.edu A short, not particularly fantastic postlude: prelude on the closing chant, fugue on a simple theme invented on the spot. Please pardon the low quality. Thanks to St. John in the Village for use permission.

Lessons Applications, Inquiries, Comments for Nicola: nsc@juilliard.edu; ncanzano@umich.edu As I walk on stage, I am provided a few themes on paper upon which I'm expected to improvise in this portion of a small mid-morning recital in Juilliard's Morse Hall. I use one theme as a prelude and turn one into a fugue subject. In my nervousness, I forgot to play the themes for the audience, but.I did ask the composer of the snippets to verify afterward that I didn't cheat!