Edward M. Nassor

Edward M. Nassor, the Carillonneur of Washington National Cathedral, plays the 53-bell carillon from a keyboard approximately 150 feet above the nave floor. He regularly performs recitals on Saturday afternoons and preludes for the principal Holy Eucharist on Sundays. Some of the special services in which he has performed were the visit of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and four presidential funerals.

Nassor is a Fulbright scholar to the Netherlands, a graduate of the Netherlands Carillon School at the Utrecht School of the Arts (P.D.), the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America (D.M.A.,M.M.) and Virginia Commonwealth University (B.Mus.). His carillon performances have been featured on ABC Television’s Good Morning America, NBC Television’s The Today Show, Public Radio International, and the Voice of America.