Events

September 17, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Mengfei Xu (Chinese native, Yale University grad student) plays the 1st concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

September 17, Wednesday at 7:30PM – guest soloist Carrie Gronenwold (Dordt University) plays a concert of music for organ with trumpet featuring the 65-rank Robert Sipe tracker-action pipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, IA.  Free/donation. 

September 20, Saturday at 10AM – the fall Pipedreams Scholarship Auditions will be held at St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church (100 Oxford Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Your application must be received online or at the address on the form by Monday, September 15, 2025.  Please make a note of the application deadline as it is not on the application forms. Please visit the TCAGO website for eligibility rules and application forms: https://tcago.wildapricot.org/page-1502678, or submit your application digitally.

September 23, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Dean Billmeyer (Emeritus Professor, University of MN) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

September 25, Thursday at 7PM – The French Way…in a combination conversation and master-class, American organist Lynne Davis reflects on her years of study, work, and life in France and how this has shaped her approach to and enthusiasm for French organ repertoire.  She also will engage with student performers regarding the interpretation and registration of select French pieces, in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland Avenue at Ashland Avenue) in Saint Paul. Free and open.

September 28, Sunday at 3PM – renowned American recitalist Lynne Davis presents a solo concert at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas on the University of St. Thomas campus in Saint Paul, MN. (NOTE:  This is followed by a 5:00PM TCAGO Investiture of offices, ‘annual meeting’ report and catered dinner.)

September 28, Sunday at 3PM – visiting artist Greg Zelek plays a Mostly-Bach program on the expanded 111-rank 1961 Holtkamp-2019 Pasi pipe organ at St. John’s Benedictine Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN.  Free. 

September 28, Sunday at 3:30 – in the first of a series of three monthly Autumn concerts, Gabriel Rivera Bird (AGO Regional Competition finalist and local high-school junior) plays a program on the 91-rank 2010 Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in La Crosse, WI.  Free/donation. 

September 29, Monday at 7PM – Benton Smith, Dean of the Red River Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, presents a concert program, French Masters Meet Contemporary America, featuring the organ at the Church of Saints Anne & Joachim (5202 25thStreet South) in Fargo, ND.  Free/donation.

September 30, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Michael Kearney (Dordt University, IA) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

October 4, Saturday at 7PM – organist Greg Zelek and guitarist Alvaro Bermudez present a Parisian Jazz Night featuring the 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis. MN.  Admission (UofMN students free), also live-streamed. 

October 5, Sunday at 2PM – guest soloist Paul Fey makes his Minnesota debut inaugurating the newly-expanded 69-rank Wicks pipe organ at Bethel Lutheran Church (810 Third Avene SE) in Rochester, MN.  Free/donation.

October 7, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Raymond Johnston (St. Mark’s Cathedral, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

October 12, Sunday at 4PM – the Church Choir, led by Richard Gray, presents an Autumn Choral Evensong  featuring the Skinner-Schantz organ at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

October 14, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Nils Halker (St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Saint Paul) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

October 15, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Samuel Libra plays the 2nd concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

October 18, Saturday at 10AM – A Morning with Wayne Wold…TCAGO invites you to these reflections on a career in music by the noted American composer, author, teacher and improviser at Christ Church Lutheran (3420 34th Avenue South) in Minneapolis.

October 19, Sunday at 3PM – composer, author (Preaching to the Choir) and improviser Wayne Wold presents a concert/Hymn-sing featuring the 29-rank Dobson pipe organ at Christ Church Lutheran (3420 34th Avenue South) in South Minneapolis, MN. 

October 21, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Sarah Boe Carson (1st Lutheran Church, Bemidji) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

October 26, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Felix Hell will present Bach’s Clavierübung III, a major collection featuring chorales from the Lutheran catechism, in conjunction with new settings of those chorales composed by Chad Fothergill (arranged for organ, brass quartet, timpan, violin and flute) and performed by the congregation and the 30-voice choral ensemble Transept, led by Tim Campbell, with commentary by theologian Steven Paulson, featuring the 54-rank 1957 Aeolian-Skinner/2010 Schoenstein organ at First Lutheran Church (327 South Dakota Avenue) in Sioux Falls, SD.  Tickets are free but due to limited seating must be reserved beforehand at www.flcsf.org/lankfordarts or by calling 605-336-3734. 

October 26, Sunday at 3:30 – in the second of a series of three monthly Autumn concerts, Daniel Schwandt (Mount Olive Lutheran, Minneapolis) plays a program on the 91-rank 2010 Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in La Crosse, WI.  Free/donation. 

October 26, Sunday at 4PM – winners of the 2025 TCAGO Young Artist Competition, Isabel Alsum and Henry Dangerfield, will perform a concert featuring the -rank Casavant pipe organ at Hamline United Methodist Church in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation.

October 27, Monday at 6PM - - the 21st annual Tricks and Treats with the Mighty Organconcert with resident organist Bill Chouinard in the Sanctuary of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in Mahtomedi, MN, featuring the mighty 1927 108-rank Casavant/Schantz organ. The performance, replete with special lighting and video effects, is designed with young listeners in mind and children are invited to come in costume.  Come early for pizza supper (pay as able/$3-5 suggested) from 5:00 - 6:00 in the new adjoining Fellowship Hall gathering space.  A free-will offering will be receivable both prior to and following the concert.  For more information and any updates, visit  www.saintandrews.org or call 651-426-3261.  

October 28, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Emily Roth (UCC Congregational Church, Rochester, MN) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

October 31, Thursday at 7:30PM – to celebrate Hallowe’en, enjoy Matthew Gender’s live organ accompaniment to spooky silent films featuring the 65-rank Robert Sipe tracker-action pipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, IA.  Free/donation. 

POSTPONED until 2026/TBA November 2, Sunday at 3PM – an All Saints Remembrance program highlighting a performance of the Maurice Duruflé Requiem with mezzo-soprano Robin Helgen, string orchestra conducted by Bradley Ellingboe, and organist Louise Bass featuring the new Nordlie-Holtkamp instrument at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN.  Free/donation.

November 2, Sunday at 3PM – in collaboration with the Uptown Brass (MN Orchestra members), Kathrine Handford presents a concert featuring the 47-rank 1979 Hendrickson pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Mark (1976 Dayton Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

November 2, Sunday at 4PM – music director Richard Gray leads a performance of the Requiem of John Rutter featuring orchestra, choir, and the Skinner-Schantz organ at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

November 4, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Diane Meredith Belcher (concert artist, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

November 7, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Aaron David Miller accompanies the Buster Keaton silent-film classic The Camera Man while playing the historic 26-rank Felgemaker organ at Sacred Heart Music Center (201 W. 4th Street) in Duluth, MN.  Admission. 

November 9, Sunday at 2:30PM – guest musician Richard Gray (St. John the Evangelist Church, St. Paul) presents a solo concert on the 87-stop Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mark (519 Oak Grove Street) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

November 9, Sunday at 2PM – guest theatre organist Dennis James returns for a Pipes & Pops Series program, including improvised accompaniment to the Charlie Chaplin favorite The Gold Rush, featuring the 16-rank 1026 Wurlitzer organ at the Phipps Center (109 Locust Street) in Hudson, WI.  Admission. 

November 9, Sunday at 3PM – visiting artist Martin Schmeding (from Leipzig, Germany) will play a concert on the 51-rank Schantz organ at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church (17205 County Road 6) in Plymouth, MN.  

November 11, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Isaac Drewes (Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

November 15, Saturday morning (9:00-noon) – a workshop with Martin Schmeding (Leipzig, Germany) at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN.

November 16, Sunday 3PM – resident musician Samuel Backman presents a recital on the theme Echoes of Gregorian Chant featuring the 36-rank Hinners-Wicks-Orvold pipe organ at Holy Cross Catholic Church (1621 University Avenue NE) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation.  

Also this afternoon at 3:30 – in the last of a series of three monthly concerts, Chad Winterfeldt (Gustavus Adolphus College) plays a program on the 91-rank 2010 Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in La Crosse, WI.  Free/donation. 

POSTPONED until 2026/TBA - Also this afternoon, Sunday, November 16, Sunday at 4PM – resident organist John Helgen will be featured in a performance of the Saint-Saëns “Organ” Symphony, with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, featuring the new Nordlie-Holtkamp-Möller organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN.  Free/donation. 

November 18, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Joel Anderson (St. Olaf RC Church, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

November 30, Sunday at 3PM – in collaboration with performers from Early Music Minnesota, organist Stephen Hamilton presents a program of Music for Advent at featuring the 33-rank 1976 Dobson organ at Olivet Congregational Church (1850 Iglehart Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN.  Admission charged. 

December 2, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Bento Schmidt (Newman Center Chapel, Fargo, ND) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

December 20, Saturday at 3PM – organist Greg Zelek offers ‘Sounds of the Season’, a holiday matinee concert featuring the 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis. MN.  Admission (UofMN students free), also live-streamed.

December 21, Sunday at 4PM – music director Richard Gray leads a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with choir and the Skinner-Schantz organ at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

December 22, Monday at 7PM – members of the Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble team up with organist Bill Chouniard for A Brass and Organ Holiday program featuring the 16-rank 1026 Wurlitzer organ at the Phipps Center (109 Locust Street) in Hudson, WI.  Admission. 

January 6, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Jeffrey Patry (1st Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

January 13, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist James D. Hicks (concert organist, New Jersey) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

January 16, Friday at 7:30PM – an 80th birthday celebration of famed British conductor/composer John Rutter, including many of his best-loved choral works and the Midwest premiere of I’ll Make Me a World on text by James Weldon Johnson, featuring the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers at the Cathedral of Saint Paul (239 Selby Avenue) in St. Paul, MN.  Admission.

January 21, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Isaac Drewes (Central Lutheran, Mpls) plays the 4th concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St, Olaf (215 8thAvenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

January 23, Friday at 7PM – resident artist Dean Billmeyer plays a concert on the Skinner-Schantz organ at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

January 25, Sunday at 9AM – the dedication of the new organ with special music during service followed by an official inaugural concert (at 2PM) by soloist Aaron David Miller playing the new Nordlie-Holtkamp-Möller organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN.  Free/donation.

January 27, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Christopher Ganza (Cathedral of St. Paul, MN) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

January 31, Saturday from 9:30AM-3PM – a TCAGO-sponsored Professional Development Day for organists and church musicians, with four featured topics and church-catered lunch.  At Mount Calvary Lutheran Church (301 County Road 19) in Excelsior, MN.  Details TBA.

February 1, Sunday at 2PM – guest theatre organist Donnie Rankin plays a mixed program Bach to the Future, on the 16-rank 1926 Wurlitzer organ at the Phipps Center (109 Locust Street) in Hudson, WI.  Admission. 

February 3, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Jacob Benda (University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

February 7, Saturday from 10:00AM – 11:30AM – Friends of the Felgemaker hosts an interactive program for children called “How to Train Your Dragon.”  Among other activities, children will have the opportunity to hear the historic 26-rank Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4th Street) in Duluth, MN.  Free. 

February 10, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Joseph Trucano (Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

February 21, Saturday from 9AM-3PM – the annual Pipe Organ Discovery Day for young keyboard players interested in finding out more about the pipe organ, with hands-on access to the 55-rank Skinner/Schantz instrument at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) and, after lunch, the 22-rank Martin Ott mechanical-action organ at Redeemer Lutheran Church (285 North Dale Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Pre-registration required: www.tcago.org. Organ information at https://www.pipeorganlist.org/OrganList/data_mn/MN-StPaulStJohnEvangelistSchantz.html and https://www.pipeorganlist.org/OrganList/data_mn/MN-StPaulRedeemerLuth-OTT-Op58.html

February 22, Sunday at 3PM – winner of the 2024 Canadian International Organ Competition, Johannes Skoog, presents a solo concert featuring the 50-rank 2005 Glatter-Götze/Rosales organ at Augustana Lutheran Church (1400 Robert Street South) in West Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation.  A reception and artist-interview Q&A interaction with Michael Barone will follow the concert. 

February 22, Sunday at 4PM – guest soloist Ann Laver (Syracuse University) plays the annual Benefactor’s Concert’ featuring the 65-rank Robert Sipe tracker-action pipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, IA.  Free/donation. 

February 22, Sunday at 4PM – VocalEssence presents its annual Witness concert Symphony of Spirituals conducted by G. Phillip Shoultz III, including prelude performances on the 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis, MN.  Admission (UofMN students free), also live-streamed. 

February 24, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Samuel Libra (Our Lady of Lourdes, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

February 28, Saturday at 7:30PM – a performance of the Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Stephen Paulus, with soloist Jacob Benda, as part of a concert by the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra led by Yuri Ivan, featuring the new Nordlie-Holtkamp pipe organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN.  Free/donation.

March 1, Sunday at 3:00PM – a performance of the Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Stephen Paulus, with soloist Jacob Benda, as part of a concert by the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra led by Yuri Ivan, featuring the new Nordlie-Holtkamp pipe organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN.  Free/donation.

March 1, Sunday at 3PM – world-touring guest soloist Damin Spritzer (University of Oklahoma) plays a solo concert on the expanded 111-rank 1961 Holtkamp/2020 Pasi pipe organ at St. John’s Benedictine Abbey Church in Collegeville, MN.  Free.  

March 3, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Dr. Kristina Rizzotto (Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

March 5, Thursday 7:30PM – organist Greg Zelek plays the solo part in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto as accompaniment to the Joffrey Ballet on the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on University of Minnesota main campus, Minneapolis, MN.  Admission.

March 7, Saturday at 7:30PM – the Lake Wobegon Brass Band presents a concert at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove Street) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation.

Sunday, March 8 at 2PM – local organist Charles Sundquist presents a concert performance of Marcel Dupré’s The Stations of the Cross, a sequence of 14 musical meditations based on the grippingly dramatic poetry of Paul Claudel, which will be read (in English translation) by Michael Barone, featuring the 34-rank Sipe organ at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary (2801 East 4th Street) in Duluth, MN.  Free/donation. 

March 10, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Gregory Peterson (Normandale Lutheran Church, Edina) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

March 17, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Thomas Vozzella (Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

March 18, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Mary Joy Rieder plays the 5th concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation.

March 21, Saturday from 9AM-5PM – the annual (Before) Bach’s Birthday Bash, five hour-long concerts af different venues, highlighting the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, sponsored by TCAGO.  Details TBA.

March 22, Sunday at 4PM – music director Richard Gray leads a Choral Evensong for Lent at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

March 24, Tuesday at 7PM – sponsored by the Bach Society, emeritus University of Minnesota organ professor Dean Billmeyer presents an all-Bach program…Influencers, In-Crowds and Interpertations…featuring the 50-rank Glatter-Götz/Rosales pipe organ at Augustana Lutheran Church (4100 Robert Street South) in Saint Paul, MN.  Admission.  

Sunday, March 29 at 4PM – organist Stephen Hamilton presents a concert performance of Marcel Dupré’s The Stations of the Cross, a sequence of 14 musical meditations based on the grippingly dramatic poetry of Paul Claudel, which will be read (in English translation) by Michael Barone, featuring the 70-rank Casavant pipe organ at Hamline Church United Methodist (1514 Englewood Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN.  Admission charged.

April 3, Friday at 7:30PM – the Cathedral Choir, led by Raymond Johnston, presents Music for Good Friday at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove Street) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

April 7, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Andrew Schaeffer (Luther Memorial Church, Madison, WI) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

Saturday, April 11 at 4PM – a guest appearance by the choirs of VocalEssence, led by Philip Brunelle, with organist Greg Zelek, featuring the expanded 111-rank 1961 Holtkamp/2020 Pasi pipe organ at St. John’s Benedictine Abbey Church in Collegeville, MN.  Admission. 

April 14, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Samuel Backman (Holy Cross RC Church, Minneapolis) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

April 15, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Celina Kobetitsch plays the 6th concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St, Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

April 18, 10AM-Noon? - the annual 2026 TCAGO Competition in Organ Performance, sponsored by the Schubert Club and TCAGO member Phil Asgian and, managed by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, takes place at the Lutheran Church of St. Philip the Deacon (17205 County Road 6) in Plymouth, MN. Free; no admission while performers are playing.

April 18, Saturday at 7PM – English organist David Bednall (of Clifton and Bristol Cathedrals, England) presents a solo concert at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas on the University of St. Thomas campus in Saint Paul, MN.

Sunday, April 19 at 3PM – resident organist Charles Sundquist will perform Romantic organ works by Mendelssohn, Bossi, Buck, Germani and Rheinberger on the historic 26-rank Felgemaker organ at Sacred Heart Music Center (201 W. 4th Street) in Duluth, MN.  Admission.

April 21, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Ju Young Lee (Christ Presbyterian Church, Edina) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

April 25, Saturday at 9:30AM – a workshop/presentation on the music of Sigfrid Karg-Elert by Southern Methodist University professor Stefan Engels, at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in  Mahtomedi, MN.  Sponsored by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.  All are welcome/Free.  See tomorrow. 

April 26, Sunday at 2:30PM – a concert devoted to the extravagantly post-romantic music of early 20th-century genius Sigfrid Karg-Elert featuring Southern Methodist University professor Stefan Engels and the 108-rank 1927 Casavant/2001 Schantz pipe organ at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in Mahtomedi, MN.  Co-sponsored by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.  All are welcome/Free. 

April 26, Sunday at 5PM – music director Richard Gray leads a Choral Evensong with the Choir of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, featuring the 87-stop Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mark (519 Oak Grove Street) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

April 28, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Pierre Zevort (Dourdan, France) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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.

April 29, Wednesday at 7PM – Northrop organist Greg Zelek teams up with Matt Mehaffey and the University of Minnesota Singers for An Evening of Organ and Choir featuring the 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ above the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop on the University of Minnesota main campus in Minneapolis, MN.  Admission (UofMN students free), also live-streamed. 

May 2, Saturday at 7PM -resident musician Jacob Benda teams up with the University of St. Thomas Festival Orchestra (Matthew George, conducting) to perform Barber’s Toccata Festiva (version for strings, trumpet and percussion) and a solo organ arrangement of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (narrated by Michael Barone) on a program also featuring guest pianist Michael Gurt in Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich in the St.Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland and Ashland) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

May 5, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Richard Gray (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, St. Paul) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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 12, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Kathrine Handford (Church of Saint Mark, St. Paul) continues the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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 14, Thursday at 7PM – celebrate Ascension Day with an Ecumenical Choral Vespers service featuring choirs of St. Thomas More and St. Paul’s Reformation Lutheran Church and the Skinner-Schantz organ at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

May 16, Saturday at 7:30PM – the Cathedral Choir, Choral Society and Orchestra, led by resident musician Raymond Johnston, present a Grand Season Finale Concert at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove Street) in Minneapolis, MN.  Admission.

May 19, Tuesday at 12:30PM – guest soloist Charles Barland (University of Dubuque, IA) concludes the 2025-2026 season of Tuesday noonday concerts 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 20, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Jacob Benda plays the final concert in the 2025-2026 Noontime Series featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.  Free/donation. 

May 31, Sunday at 10AM – resident musician Richard Gray conducts Gloria settings by Antonio Vivaldi and John Rutter, with choir, Copper Street Brass, organ and harpsichord during morning service at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (60 Kent Street) in Saint Paul, MN.  Free/donation. 

June 7, Sunday at 2PM – guest theatre organist Zach Frame (Organ Piper Pizza, Wisconsin) plays a program of Broadway, Big Bands, Beatles, and Beyond on the 16-rank 1026 Wurlitzer organ at the Phipps Center (109 Locust Street) in Hudson, WI.  Admission.  

June 14, Sunday at 3PM – prior to their group tour abroad, in a multi-choral celebration ensembles from The Meetinghouse, St. Philip the Deacon, Shepherd of the Valley and Grace Episcopal Churches and Kantorei present the premiere performance of a new work for choirs and instruments by Tom Trenny, featuring the 51-rank Schantz pipe organ at Saint Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN.  Free/donation.