English organist Martin Baker will perform at 8 this evening at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, continuing the 1994 Eccles Organ Festival.

Baker has been an organist for Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral, as well as a prizewinner at the Royal College of Organists.His program will feature him in music of Bach, Handel (the Op. 4, No. 2, concerto), Vierne, Tournemire, Dupre and Walton ("Orb and Sceptre"). In addition, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at 7:30 p.m., he will lecture on "The History of the Musical Foundation at Westminster Abbey" in the cathedral's Bishop Hunt Room.

Both the concert and the lecture are free.

On Friday, Aug. 19, the cathedral's Summer Choral Festival will conclude with a free public concert at 7:30 p.m.

Performing will be the Cathedral Choir and the boychoir and girlchoir of the Madeleine Choir School. The Cathedral Choir will perform under the direction of Dr. Leo Nestor, director of music at the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. The program, which is being prepared for the choir's 1995 tour to Rome and Assisi, will include works of Byrd, Palestrina, Tallis and Elgar.

The choristers of the Madeleine Choir School will be directed by Dr. Richard Proulx, director of music at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, in works of Faure, Wyton and Proulx.

- THE PARK CITY International Music Festival continues this week with four chamber concerts.

The first takes place at 8 this evening at the Park City Community Church. Music of Haydn, Ravel, Granados, Martinu and Brahms will be performed by flutist Leone Buyse, English horn player Thomas Stacy, cellist Ellen Bridger, violist Leslie Harlow, pianist Michael Gurt and violinist Vincent Frittelli.

The festival will offer a free concert Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 8 p.m. at the Cathedral of Madeleine. The program will feature music of Arensky, Mozart and Purcell. Performing will be harpsichordist Gregory Glenn, clarinetist Russell Harlow, violinists Arturo Delmoni, Charles Libove and Charles Castleman, violist Leslie Harlow and cellists Frederic Zlotkin and Terry King.

On Thursday, Aug. 18, at 8 p.m. at the Park City Education Center pianists Nina Lugovoy and Gail Niwa will join Delmoni, Castle-man, Libove, Zlotkin, King and the Harlows for a program of Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Arensky and Brahms.

Then Saturday, Aug. 20, at 4 p.m. at Niwa, the 1991 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition Winner, will solo with the Festival Orchestra in the Schumann Piano Concerto at the education center. Also on the program: Russell Harlow soloing in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, and the world premiere of a work by Lucia Hwong.

Admission to each, except the Cathedral of the Madeleine concert, is $12 ($10 students and senior citizens); for information call 649-5309.

- VIOLINIST JEANETTE ENSLEY will present a recital program ranging from Bach to Robert Russell Bennett Tuesday, Aug. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. She will be accompanied by pianist JoLane Laycock Jolley.

On other Assembly Hall programs this week, organist Nancy Ypma will perform Wednesday, Aug. 17. A former student of the Royal School of Church Music in England, Ypma is director of music at McKendree College. Her program will include Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, Franck's Fantasie in C major and music of Couperin, Planyavsky and Durufle.

Violinist Jenny Oaks will perform Friday, Aug. 19. Accompanied by pianist Dian Baker, she will be heard in music of Szymanowski, Franck (the Sonata in A major) and Sibelius (the Concerto in D minor). Oaks attends the Curtis Institute of Music and has soloed with the Utah Symphony, among others.

Sixteen-year-old Elena Cho will present a piano recital Saturday, Aug. 20, a program of Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Chopin and Kabalevsky.

Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m. and admission is free.

- UTAH SYMPHONY violinist Melissa Thorley-Lewis and pianist Jed Moss will present a recital Thursday, Aug. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Daynes Music Co.'s Steinway Hall.

Included on their program will be sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms, Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending" and the "Carmen" Fantasy of Pablo de Sarasate.

- THE UTAH MUSIC FESTIVAL presents the final two concerts of its 1994 season this week, the first Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus and the second Saturday, Aug. 20, at Logan's Eccles Theatre. Starting time for each is 8 p.m.

The program each night will consist of Barber's "Summer Music," Martinu (the 1959 "Nonetto") and Schumann, along with a new piece by Layman-Quist. Performers will include flutist Alison Griffiths, oboist Laura Griffiths, clarinetist Daniel Spitzer, bassoonist John Hunt, violinists Ittai Shapira and Mela Tenenbaum, violist Gilad Karni, cellist Eric Samuels, bassist Steven Molina, pianist Mihae Lee and Robert Routch, horn.

Tickets are $12 ($10 senior citizens, $5 students), on sale in Salt Lake at Arttix (355-ARTS), in Logan at 752-0026 or at the door.

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- CONDUCTOR KEITH BRION rejoins the Utah Symphony for another round of "Sousa at the Symphony" concerts Friday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall and Saturday, Aug. 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Deer Valley.

Costumed in a replica of Sousa's uniform, baton and white gloves, Brion will lead the orchestra in several Sousa marches as well as music of Weber, Grainger, Gounod and Johann Strauss Jr. Soloing will be soprano Charleen Ayers, piccolo soloist Michael Vance and trombonist Larry Zalkind.

Brion's re-creation of the historical sounds and sights of Sousa and his band has been broadcast on television and National Public Radio.

Abravanel Hall tickets are $13 and $25. Tickets for Deer Valley are $16 for general admisssion and $32 for reserved seating, with tickets purchased the day of the performance are slightly higher. To order call 533-NOTE.

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