Pipedreams Regional Organ Events Calendar
Upcoming organ events in and around Minnesota.
(See also: Michael’s Appearances)
Last updated on April 24, 2024.
Related link: Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
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We are excited to provide information on vibrant musical happenings in Minnesota and beyond. The organ is featured in each event listed. Some of these may be streamed, too, and others may be offered exclusively online.
Here’s what is on the calendar in coming days and weeks. Many events were tentatively ‘go’ at the time of posting, but specific information may change. Though we will attempt to keep the information on this page current, please consult the individual venues for any last-minute changes and to confirm accuracy.
April 26, Friday at 7:30PM – the Gustavus Choir, led by Brandon Dean and accompanied by Chad Winterfeldt present a performance of the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé featuring the 55-rank Hillgreen-Lane/Hendrickson organ in Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. Free.
April 27, Saturday at 1PM - organist David Jenkins, guitarist Chris Kachian present a program of music by Bach, Portman, Schubert, plus poetry written and recited by Senior Minister David Breeden, featuring the 35-rank 1961 Holtkamp organ at First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (900 Mount Curve Avenue) in Minneapolis, MN 55403. Free/donation.
April 28, Sunday at 3PM – College senior Heidi Engman performs a student recital featuring works by Bach, Widor, Manz, and her own transcriptions of movie themes, featuring the 55-rank Hillgreen-Lane/Hendrickson organ in Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. Free.
April 30, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Kristina Rizzotto (Lake of the Isles Lutheran, Minneapolis) continues the 2023-2024 season of Tuesday Organ Recitals featuring the 57-rank 1998 Casavant pipe organ at the Church of St. Louis, King-of-France (506 Cedar Street) in downtown Saint Paul, MN. Free.
May 3, Friday at 7:30PM – internationally-acclaimed guest pianist Horacio Lavandera will play works of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Schubert and Dino Saluzzi in concert at the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (11 Fourth Avenue SW) in Rochester, MN. Admission.
May 4, Saturday at 7PM – as the season finale for the St.Thomas Chapel Arts Series, resident musician Jacob Benda and guest David Jenkins celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Pipedreams (and its host Michael Barone) and the musical life of James P. Callahan. The program will feature the two Organ Concertos by Callahan, Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Strings, Timpani, and Edward Elgar's Sospiri. A highlight to the evening will include the posthumous world-premiere of Elegy for saxophone and piano by James P. Callahan. The concert will conclude with a surprise piece of Benda's choosing. A reception will follow in the Hoedeman Gallery of Sacred Art. Please invite your family, friends, and colleagues as we honor these two inspiring individuals. Matthew George conducts, and performances feature the 56-rank 1987 Gabriel Kney tracker-action pipe organ in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland Avenue at Ashland) in St. Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 5, Sunday at 4PM – Twin Cities AGO/Quimby Competition winner Aaron Looney plays solo works by Bach and Vierne and accompanies the Hamline Church Festival Chorus in music by Rheinberger and Brahms in concert featuring the Brunzema-Casavant organ at Hamline United Methodist Church 1514 Englewood Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 7, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Jeffrey Patry (1st Lutheran, Saint Paul) continues the 2023-2024 season of Tuesday Organ Recitals featuring the 57-rank 1998 Casavant pipe organ at the Church of St. Louis, King-of-France (506 Cedar Street) in downtown Saint Paul, MN. Free.
May 9, Thursday at 7PM – conductor Stacie Lightner leads a performance of Bach’s Ascension Day Cantata (BWV 43, Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen) at St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church (100 Oxford Street) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 10, Friday at 7:30PM –guest soloist Samuel Backman plays a solo concert on the 33-rank Dobson mechanical-action pipe organ at Olivet Congregational Church (1859 Iglehart Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 11, Saturday at 3PM – talented young guest soloist Henry Dangerfield plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
May 11, Saturday at 7:30PM – Canon Musician Raymond Johnston leads a season finale concert including music of Ravel and the Poulenc Gloria, with choir and orchestra at the Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission.
May 12, Sunday at 3PM – young artists Aaron Looney and Trevor Goode, winners of the American Guild of Organists 2023 Regional Young Artists Competition, share a program of solo repertoire playing the recently installed Casavant-Letourneau organ at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (700 South Snelling Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 14, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Kathrine Handford (Church of St. Mark, Saint Paul) continues the 2023-2024 season of Tuesday Organ Recitals featuring the 57-rank 1998 Casavant pipe organ at the Church of St. Louis, King-of-France (506 Cedar Street) in downtown Saint Paul, MN. Free.
May 15, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – resident musician Joel Anderson plays the final concert in the 2023-2024 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 South 8th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
May 19, Sunday at 2PM –St. Joseph native and visiting artist Lola Wolf, assisted by soprano Sister Janine Mettling and the St. Benedict’s Schola presents a program of works by Nicolas De Grigny, J. S. Bach, and Henryk Gorecki (“O Domina Nostra”, written in tributed to Poland’s Black Madonna), featuring the 33-rank Noack pipe organ in the Sacred Heart Chapel of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, MN. Free. Artwork devoted to the Black Madonna by Sister Thomas Carey will be on display, too.
May 21, Tuesday at 12:35PM - resident artist Larry Martin concludes the 2023-2024 season of Tuesday Organ Recitals featuring the 57-rank 1998 Casavant pipe organ at the Church of St. Louis, King-of-France (506 Cedar Street) in downtown Saint Paul, MN. Free.
June 9, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Horst Buckholz (Music Director, Archdiocese of Detroit) plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
June 14-15, Friday and Saturday, starting at 8AM Friday – HymnStock 2024, a two-day marathon featuring local and international organists accompanying the singing of every verse of every hymn in the Lutheran Book of Worship, the festival celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Achtiederbuch, the first Lutneran hymnal, and a benefit to support the organ project at St. John’s Lutheran Church (625 12th Avenue) in Howard Lake, MN. You're invited to sing along, whether it's the entire hymnal or just a few hymns whenever it fits in your schedule. We'll be joined by lots of organists and other musicians who will accompany the singing, and food will be served throughout the event. We'll start at 8 AM on Friday, June 14, and we'll wrap up around 10:30 Saturday morning, including a celebration breakfast. (Yes, we'll be singing all night!)
July 21, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist soloist Leo Abbott (Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston) plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
August 25, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Andrew McDonald plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
September 15, Sunday at 3PM – resident organist Isaac Drewes and guest soloist Carolyn Diamond present A Colossal Kaleidoscope of Colorful Sounds, a varied program to celebrate the resources of the magnificent 107-rank 1963 Casavant organ at Central Lutheran ChurchI (222 South 12th Street) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
September 21, Saturday at 3PM – resident musician Scott Turkington plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
September 28 Saturday at 7PM – visiting virtuoso Chelsea Chen appears in concert in the Chapel Arts Series featuring the 56-rank 19987 Gabriel Kney tracker-action pipe organ in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland Avenue at Ashland) in St. Paul, MN. Free/donation.
October, Saturday at 3PM – resident musician Scott Turkington plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
February 16, 2025, Sunday at 3PM – organist Aaron David Miller provides accompaniment to the classic 1928 Buster Keaton silent film The Cameraman, featuring the remarkable 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis. MN. Admission.
March 2, 2025, Sunday at 4PM – the National Lutheran Choir appears in concert in the Chapel Arts Series featuring the 56-rank 19987 Gabriel Kney tracker-action pipe organ in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland Avenue at Ashland) in St. Paul, MN. Free/donation.
May 18, 2025, Sunday at 4PM – guest organist David Cherwien leads a Hymn Festival as the concluding event in the season’s music series featuring the 55-rank 1965 Casavant pipe organ at Bethlehem Lutheran Church (4100 Lyndale Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
April 6, 2025, Sunday at 3PM – prize-winning guest soloist Filip Presseisen (from Poland) provides improvised accompaniment to the classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, featuring the remarkable 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis. MN. Admission.
July 13, 2025, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Benton Schmidt (Newman Center, North Dakota State University) plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
July 27, 2025, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Margaret-Mary Sauppé (Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, Los Alamos, NM) plays a concert on the 50-rank 2008 Noack tracker-action organ in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (5250 Justin Road) just outside La Crosse, WI. Free/donation. The Culina Mariana Café in the Visitors Center is an excellent place for pre-concert lunch.
