Events

September 18, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Jason Roberts, co-sponsored by the Red River Valley Chapter of the AGO, plays a rededication recital for the 37-rank Austin pipe organ at First Lutheran Church, featuring the 3-manual, 67-rank Austin organ at First Lutheran Church (619 Broadway N) in Fargo, ND. A masterclass on improvisation will be held the following morning, Saturday, September 19, at 9:00 a.m., same location and is also open to the public.

September 18, Friday at 7:30PM – guest recitalist Peter Sykes (faculty of Juilliard School NYC) plays a solo recital of works by Buxtehude, Bach, James Woodman, Christa Rakich, John Stanley and others celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the installation of the diminutive but dramatic 22-rank 1976 Brunzema-Casavant pipe organ at Maternity of Mary Catholic Church (1414 Dale Street North) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation. Reception follows.

September 19 Saturday from 9:30-noon – as a continuation of the parish pipe organ’s 50th Anniversary, guest presenter Peter Sykes oversees an ‘community open house’ discovery-session/master-class, for organ students and musically curious folks, a real-time exposé focusing on “Making the Most Out of Modest Resources”, featuring the 1976 Brunzema-Casavant organ at Maternity of Mary Catholic Church (1414 Dale Avenue North) in Saint Paul, MN. Free.

September 20, Sunday at 3PM – The University of St. Thomas Chapel Music Series begins the season with a solo concert by Aaron David Miller (Director of Music at nearby House of Hope Presbyterian Church) with an eclectic program as a gesture of gratitude to the University of St. Thomas from Professor Emeritus Gene Audette, featuring the 1987 Gabriel Kney pipe organ in the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas (Cleveland at Ashland) on the St. Paul, MN campus. Free/donation.

September 20, Sunday at 4PM – guest organist and composer Brenda Portman presents a solo concert on the 48-rank 1998 Casavant organ at 1st Presbyterian Church (512 3rd Street SW) in Rochester, MN. Free/donation.

September 25, Friday at 7PM – resident musician Alex Swanson presides over the 51st annual Silent Movie Night hosted by the Red River Theatre Organ Society, featuring the 4-manual, 27-rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ at the Fargo Theatre (314 Broadway N) in Fargo, ND. The first movie ever shown at the Fargo Theatre's opening in 1926 , The Man on the Box, starring Sydney Chaplin, will be shown in honor of the theatre and organ's 100th anniversary this year. Tickets are $20.

September 25, Friday at 7:30PM – the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (England), led by Peter Holder, offer a rare Minnesota concert, featuring the Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission.

September 26, Saturday at 7PM – visiting organist John Dixon (from Virginia) presents an inaugural concert on the recently expanded Casavant organ at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (1212 12th Avenue NW) in Rochester, MN. Free/donation. Mr. Dixon will also serve as guest organist during the Sunday, September 27 worship service. His goal is to perform in all 50 states, and Minnesota is his 49th.

September 26, Saturday at 7:30PM – emeritus faculty recitalists Chris Kachian (guitar) and David Jenkins (organ and harpsichord) present a Bach-and-Forth concert including sonatas by the father-and-sons team of Johann Sebastian, Wilhelm Friedemannl, and Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, featuring the 56-rank 1985 Schantz pipe organ in the sanctuary of Lumen Christi Catholic Community (2055 Bohland Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.

September 27, Sunday at 2PM – guest conductor Mallory Thompson leads the Minnesota Winds in works by Joan Tower, Aaron Copland, Henry Dorn, Carlos Simon, and David Maslanka’s Fourth Symphony (with an organ part in the finale played by Gregory Peterson, featuring the Blackinton pipe organ at Benson Great Hall of Bethel University (3900 Bethel Drive) in Arden Hills, MN. Admission.

September 27, Sunday at 3PM – area musicians join together for a program of music for organ and orchestra by Mozart, Handel and Haydn, featuring the historic 1897 Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4th Street) in Duluth, MN. Admission.

September 27, Sunday at 3:30PM – talented local Aquinas High School student Gabriel Rivera Bird plays a solo concert on the magnificent 94-rank Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in downtown LaCrosse, WI). Free/donation.

September 28, Monday at 12:00 noon – a Brown Bag Lunch Concert Series theatre pipe organ concert, hosted by the Red River Theatre Organ Society, features the 3-manual, 12-rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ at A Center for the Arts (124 W Lincoln Ave) in Fergus Falls, MN. Freewill donation for admission.

October 2, Friday at 7:30PM - resident faculty organist Chad Winterfeldt plays a program including transcriptions of Interstellar and How to Train Your Dragon by Anna Lapwood, Nightsongs and Ostinato Dances by Pamela Decker, and Clair de lune by Louis Vierne, featuring the 55-rank 1962 Hillgreen-Lane organ in Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Free.

October 4, Sunday at 3PM – a 30th Anniversary Concert by Encore Winds Symphonic Concert Band led by Peter Haberman, with guest soloist and Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter Charles Lazarus and organ soloist Bill Chouinard and the 108-rank 1927 Casavant-2001 Schantz pipe organ at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in Mahtomedi, MN. The program features the sonic block-buster Pebble Beach Sojourn by Ronald Nelson, and a newly commissioned score by University of Minnesota professor Dean Sorenson. Free/donation.

October 6, Tuesday at 7:30PM – the young German social-media phenom Paul Fey presents a concert on the 30-rank Wicks/Rodgers electronic hybrid organ at Church of the Annunciation (525 W. 54th Street) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

October 8, Thursday at 7PM – as the opening event in the annual Chapel Arts Series, violinist Borislava Iltcheva (Baton Rouge Symphony) joins organist Jacob Benda for a multi-media program featuring music for violin, organ and piano, including works by Bach, Bednall, Copland, Vaughan Williams, and the world premiere of River: Dragon by Kenji Kuriyama, highlighting the 56-rank 1987 Gabriel Kney pipe organ in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel on the campus of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland at Ashland) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.

October 9, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Jonathan Ryan (Director of Music at Christ Church, Cranbrook, MI) presents a concert featuring works by Flor Peeters, Bach, Sweelinck, Sarah MacDonald, and Paul Manz played on the famous 1966 Schlicker pipe organ at Mount Olive Lutheran Church (3045 Chicago Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

October 11, 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.

October 17, Saturday at 7PM – come for an evening of silent film with organ accompaniment as guest soloist Ed Copeland (Heights Theatre) provides music to the classic movie Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde featuring the new 28-rank Grandall & Engen/Casavant organ at St. John’s Lutheran Church (625 12th Avenue) in Howard Lake, MN. Free/donation.

October 18, Sunday at 2PM - organist Chad Winterfeldt plays a program including transcriptions of Interstellar and How to Train Your Dragon by Anna Lapwood, Nightsongs and Ostinato Dances by Pamela Decker, and Clair de lune by Louis Vierne, featuring the 20-rank Möller-Orvold organ at Grace University Lutheran Church (324 Harvard Street) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Free.

October 18, Sunday at 4PM – organists Jennifer Baker-Trinity, Robert Buckley Farlee, and Mark Sedio present a hymn festival, Sing for the Healing, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymn Book, featuring the 2018 Dobson pipe organ at Christ Church Lutheran (3240 34th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

October 23, Friday at 7PM – guest organists Michael Bauer and Marie Rubis Bauer play the annual Joan Ringerwole Organ Recital on the 57-rank 1978 Brunzema-Casavant mechanical action pipe organ in the B.J. Haan Auditorium on the campus of Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa. Free.

October 23, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Aaron David Miller accompanies a showing of the classic silent film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” featuring the historic 1897 Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4th Street) in Duluth, MN. Admission.

October 25, Sunday at 3:30PM – Minneapolis organist Samuel Libra (Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church) plays a solo concert on the magnificent 94-rank Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in downtown LaCrosse, WI). Free/donation.

October 25, Sunday at 4PM – the celebrated improviser David Cherwien leads and accompanies a Hymn Festival, supported by a large special choir drawn from churches in the area, featuring the 1994 Schantz pipe organ at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church (300 County Road 19) in Excelsior, MN. Free/donation.

October 26, Monday at 6PM - the 22nd annual Tricks and Treats with the Mighty Organ concert with resident organist Bill Chouinard in the Sanctuary of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in Mahtomedi, MN, featuring the mighty 108-rank Casavant/Schantz organ. The performance, replete with special lighting and video effects, is designed with young listeners in mind. Children are invited to come in costume and parade throughout the room. 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 received while the organ plays a little ‘trick’. For more information and any updates, visit www.saintandrews.org or call 651-426-3261.

October 26, Monday at 7PM – a concert by the 12 singers of the VOCES8 US Scholars Ensemble at St. Mark’s Cathedral (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Donation.

October 27, Tuesday at 7PM – resident organist Greg Zelek and trumpeter Caleb Hudson present a pre-Halloween concert, Haunted Harmonies, 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 29, Thursday at 7PM – to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of their instrument, guest soloist Olivier Latry (Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris) presents a conversation/master-class for organists and music-loving auditors featuring the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher pipe organ at the Catholic Church of St. Olaf (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission.

October 30, Friday at 2PM – with host Michael Barone, of MPR’s PIPEDREAMS program, a ‘curated conversation’ with Parisian organist Olivier Latry, who will talk about his life and career and experiences as organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 8th Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free.

October 30, Friday at 7PM - Philip Brunelle conducts a lavish concert of French Choral Masterworks with VocalEssence and additional choruses (a choir of 200) and orchestra (with 12 harps) including a presentation of works by Widor, Dupré, Villette, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns and Duruflé, plus the extravagant Te Deum by Hector Berlioz (with organist Christopher Ganza) at the Cathedral of Saint Paul (239 Selby Avenue) in St. Paul, MN. Admission.

October 30, Friday at 7:30PM – a showing of the silent-film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, (following a family-friendly Hallowe’en Party from 5:30-7PM) with improvised accompaniment by Aaron David Miller featuring the 97-rank 1979 C. B. Fisk pipe organ in the sanctuary of House of Hope Presbyterian Church (797 Summit Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.

October 31, Saturday at 7:30PM – a showing of the silent-film classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame with improvised accompaniment by Matt Gender featuring the 62-rank 1977 Robert Sipe pipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life (700 College Drive) on the campus of Luther College in Decorah, IA. Free/donation.

November 1, Sunday at 3PM- resident musician Brice Petersen, with strings and other instruments, concludes the 50th Anniversary series of concerts featuring the 36-rank 1976 Van Daalen pipe organ at Zion Lutheran Church (241 5th Avenue North) in Hopkins, MN. Free/donation.

November 1, Sunday at 3PM – an All Saints Remembrance program highlighting a performance of the Maurice Duruflé Requiem with mezzo-soprano Robin Helgen, a 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 1, 2026, Monday at 7PM – resident organist and composer Samuel Backman teams up with soprano Elena Bird Zolnick to premiere Through the Flames, a song cycle for soprano and organ composed by Backman and based on the lives—nay, deaths—of a series of martyrs. This performance will take place on All Saints Day at Holy Cross Catholic Church (1621 University Ave NE) in Minneapolis, MN.

November 8, Sunday at 1:30PM - resident faculty organist Chad Winterfeldt plays the organ part in Symphony No. 3 in c, Op;. 78 (Organ) by Camille Saint-Saëns, with the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, featuring the 55-rank 1962 Hillgreen-Lane organ in Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Free.

November 14, Saturday at 9:30AM – members of the TCAGO (and interested auditors) are invited to an open-house and open-console exploration of the new organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN. Free.

November 15, Sunday at 9AM – the dedication of the new organ with special music during service followed by an official inaugural concert at 2PM with soloist Aaron David Miller featuring the new Nordlie-Holtkamp-Möller organ at Roseville Lutheran Church (1215 Roselawn Avenue West) in Roseville, MN. Free/donation.

November 15. Sunday at 3PM – the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, led by Matthew Mehaffey, presents Master Darke’s Testament, a concert featuring works by English composer Harold Darke, with three premieres including the 40-minute oratorio The Beatitudes, with choir, orchestra, and organist Samuel Backman featuring the monumental 114-rank 1991 Visser-Rowland organ at the Wooddale Church (6630 Shady Oak Road) in Eden Prairie, MN. Admission.

November 15, Sunday at 4PM – various local artists present A Celebration of Music general organ concert hosted by the Red River Valley Chapter of the AGO, featuring the 3-manual, 9-rank Rodgers-Moe hybrid organ at Immanuel Lutheran Church (1258 Broadway N) in Fargo, ND. Free/donation.

November 17, Tuesday at 8:30PM – faculty organist Alexander Meszler presents a solo concert on the 62-rank 1977 Robert Sipe pipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life (700 College Drive) on the campus of Luther College in Decorah, IA. Free/donation.

November 18, Wednesday at 12:30PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, guest soloist Benton Schmidt (St. Paul’s Newman Center, Fargo, ND) presents a concert on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8thStreet) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

November 21, Saturday at 7PM – student organist Andrew Chesebro plays his senior recital on the 57-rank 1978 Brunzema-Casavant mechanical action pipe organa in the B.J. Haan Auditorium on the campus of Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa. Free.

November 22, Sunday at 3:30PM – Twin Cities organist John Stender (Normandale Lutheran Church) plays a solo concert on the magnificent 94-rank Noack pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman (530 Main Street) in downtown LaCrosse, WI. Free/donation.

November 22, Sunday at 4PM – a TCAGO Members Recital devoted to works by American composers, co-sponsored by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, featuring the recently expanded 1964 Aeolian-Skinner/2011 Holtkamp organ at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church (12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road) in Apple Valley, MN. Free/donation.

November 22, Sunday at 4PM – guest organist David Cherwien, with trumpeter Charles Lazarus, presents a concert featuring the 48-rank 1998 Casavant organ at 1st Presbyterian Church (512 3rd Street SW) in Rochester, MN. Free/donation.

December 5, Saturday at 4PM – in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the relocation of historic pipe organ to Mankato, soloist Celina Kobetitsch will play Handel’s Organ Concerto, Op. r4, no. 5 in a concert that also includes Haydn’s Symphonies No. 30 (Alleluia) and 104 (London), with the Mankato Symphony led by Ernesto Estigarribia Mussi and featuring the 1877 Johnson & Son organ in the Chapel on Good Counsel Hill, Mankato, MN. Admission.

December 8, Tuesday at 7PM – new music composer inti figgis-vizueta teams up with the Rothko Quartet, cellist Andrew Yee, and Aaron David Miller (in a solo organ piece Waya) for a ‘Liquid Music’ program of Music for Transitions briefly 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 12, Saturday at 7:30PM – the Cathedral Choir led by Canon Musician Raymond Johnston presents a Great British Christmas as part of the Music series at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Donation.

December 16, Wednesday at 12:30PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, guest soloist David Jenkins (former Dean of the Twin Cities AGO Chapter) presents a concert on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8thStreet) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

December 20, Sunday at 2:30PM – Canon Musician Raymond Johnston presents a performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Christmas suite La Nativité du Seigneur featuring the Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

January 10, Sunday at 3PM – resident organist Samuel Backman presents the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé in commemoration of 125th anniversary of the composer’s birth, featuring the 36-rank Hinners-Wicks-Orvold pipe organ at Holy Cross RC Church (1621 University Avenue NE) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

January 15 Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Ben Kerswell (Bach Society, Houston) will play a solo recital on the 50-rank 2005 Glatter-Götz/Rosales pipe organ at Augustana Lutheran Church (1400 Robert Street South) in West St. Paul, MN. Free/donation.

January 20, Wednesday at 12:30PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, resident musician Joel Anderson presents a concert on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

January 24, Sunday at 2:30PM – guest musician Joel Anderson (St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis) presents a solo recital featuring the Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

January 26, Tuesday at 12:35PM – world-travelling recitalist and recording artist James D. Hicks returns to the Twin Cities to present the local premiere of Olli Saari’s Variations on a Finnish Chorale as part of an all-Scandinavian program performed on the 57-rank 1998 Casavant organ at the Church of St. Louis King of France (506 Cedar Street) in downtown Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.

January 30, Saturday at 7:30PM – the Northrop Dance Series presents a program including a significant organ component featuring organist Greg Zelek and 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 7, Sunday at 3PM – a silent-film event with guest organist Aaron David Miller 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. Following the film at 4:30, you’re invited to stay for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Northrop Organ (including a visit to the pipe chambers above the stage). Limited forty participants and a separate ticket is required.

February 7, Sunday at 3PM – in a special Builders’ Recital and the final event in the ‘dedication series’, organ builders and church organists David Grandall and David Engen explore the sonic resources of their recent work on the expanded 28-rank Grandall & Engen/Casavant organ at St. John’s Lutheran Church (625 12th Avenue) in Howard Lake, MN.

February 13, 10:00AM-11:30AM – bring your curious youngsters to an interactive event, “Birds of a Feather,” featuring the historic 1897 Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4th Street) in Duluth, MN. Free.

February 14, Wednesday at 2:00PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, guest concert soloist Stephen Hamilton presents a concert featuring Marcel Dupré’s Passiontide masterpiece Le Chemin de la Croix/The Stations of the Cross on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

February 21, Sunday at 3PM – a performance of the Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Stephen Paulus, with soloist Jacob Benda, as part of a concert with other works performed by the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra led by Matthew George, featuring the 48-rank 2003 Reuter pipe organ at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church (9201 Normandale Boulevard) in Bloomington, MN. Free/donation.

February 27, Saturday at 7:30PM – a performance of Passio by Arvo Pärt, a setting of the Passion Story according to the Gospel of St. John, scored for vocal soloists, choir, violin, oboe, cello, bassoon and organ, will be presented by the Cathedral Choir under the direction of Raymond Johnston at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral (590 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission/donation.

March 7, Sunday at 3PM – Duluth 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 39-rank Glück pipe organ in the Cathedral of Christ the King (1410 Baxter Avenue) in Superior, WI. Free/donation.

March 9, Tuesday at 7PM – sponsored by the Walker Art Center and Liquid Music, view the path-breaking silent film Koyaanisquatsi, accompanied by the Philip Glass Ensemble, with organist Michael Riesman 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.

March 14, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Stephen Hamilton performs Marcel Dupré’s suite Le Chemin de la Croix/The Stations of the Cross, 14 meditations on poems by Paul Claudel which will be read by Michael Barone in English translations, featuring the Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner/Quimby pipe organs at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, (239 Selby Avenue) in St. Paul, MN. Free/donation.

March 18, Thursday at 7PM – as part of the Chapel Arts Series, a special event titled Let Us All Rejoice features works for organ and choir, including Rachel Laurin’s Concert Piece No. 5, played by Jacob Benda, a Requiem by Michael Trotta conducted by the composer and sung by the St. Thomas Liturgical Choir and Alumni Choir, and the world premiere of a new work by British composer David Bednall. Conductors will include Michael John Trotta, Elena Bird Zolnick, and Rob Strusinski. Featured is the 1987 Gabriel Kney pipe organ in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel on the campus of the University of St. Thomas (Cleveland at Ashland) in St. Paul MN. Free/donation.

March 19, Friday at 7:30PM – a concert by Stephen Hamilton, sponsored by the Bach Society of Minnesota, devoted to works composed and inspired by J. S. Bach…including music of Mendelssohn and Ginastera…featuring the Glatter-Götz/Rosales pipe organ at Augustana Lutheran Church (1400 Robert Street South) in West St. Paul, MN. Admission.

March 20, 2027, Saturday from 9AM-5PM – the annual Before Bach’s Birthday Bash featuring five free hour-long concerts of Bach’s music at various churches in the Twin Cities, sponsored by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists…details TBA

March 21, Sunday at 3PM – a collaborative performance by the Bach Society of Minnesota and the Minnesota Chorale, jointly conducted by Jennaya Robison and Matthias Maute, with vocal soloists Aaron Sheehan (Evangelist), Dashon Burton (Jesus), Clara Osowski and Sonia Tengblad, to mark the 300th anniversary of the first performance by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, in concert at Central Lutheran Church (333 South 10th Street) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission.

March 21, Sunday at 3PM – guest soloist Stephen Hamilton performs Marcel Dupré’s suite Le Chemin de la Croix/The Stations of the Cross, 14 meditations on poems by Paul Claudel which will be read by Michael Barone in English translations, featuring the Holtkamp-Pasi pipe organ at St. John’s Benedictine Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN. Free/donation.

April 11, Sunday at 3PM – members of the Arrowhead Chapter of the American Guild of Organists present a program “In Praise of Bach”, including Bach’s Coffee Cantata and organ solos featuring the historic 1897 Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4th Street) in Duluth, MN. Admission.

April 11, 2027, Sunday at 4PM –as part of the impressive Bethlehem Music Series, Vincent Dubois, organist from Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, performs a solo concert on the 55-rank 1965 Casavant organ at Bethlehem Lutheran Church (4100 Lyndale Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN.

April 21, Wednesday at 12:30PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, guest soloist James Bobb (St. Olaf College) presents a concert on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

April 28, Wednesday at 7PM – resident organist Greg Zelek and a small ensemble of TBA musicians) present a 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.

May 2, Sunday at 2:30PM – English guest recitalist David Goodenough presents a solo recital featuring the Foley-Baker pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Mark (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.

May 15, 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 with other works performed 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.

May 19, Wednesday at 12:30PM - as part of the 25th anniversary season of the church’s pipe organ, guest soloist Michael Kearney (Dordt University) presents a concert on the 67-rank 2001 Lively-Fulcher instrument at St. Olaf Catholic Church (215 South 8th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.