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Join us Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 pm
Enjoy afternoon tea all around our beautiful campus, while listening to beautiful Carillon music!
Guest Carillonist, Anton Fleissner
Anton Fleissner first moved to Chattanooga in 2001. A seventh-grade music class at Baylor School first turned him on to music, and to organ in particular; he continued learning organ through middle and high school.
When Anton came to Princeton University as an undergraduate, he began taking carillon lessons with Robin Austin, the university carillonneur. Studying carillon took him to instruments as far apart as Morristown, NJ; Sewanee, TN; and Milwaukee, WI. Upon graduation, Anton began a teaching fellowship at the nearby Lawrenceville School, teaching math and coaching fencing. Most Sundays, he would bike back to Princeton to continue playing carillon and studying under Lisa Lonie, who assumed the position of university carillonneur.
After completing his fellowship, Anton attended the Polis Institute, a language school in Jerusalem, where he irresponsibly enrolled in every language on offer (Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic, Syriac, and Sumerian). He returned to Chattanooga and worked as a substitute math teacher at Baylor before moving up to Morristown, NJ, and then to Boston, MA. In the Boston area, Anton got to play the carillons at the town hall in Norwood and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Cohasset, both south of the city.
Last year, Anton returned to Lawrenceville, where he teaches math and computer science, coaches fencing, and lives as a dorm parent to a few dozen teenagers. He is excited to play at St. Francis, as it is actually the first carillon he ever tried, right before he departed Chattanooga for college.
