Pipedreams Regional Organ Events Calendar
Upcoming organ events in and around Minnesota.
(See also: Michael’s Appearances)
Last updated on December 20, 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.
December 20, Friday at 7PM – organist Bill Chouinard teams up with the Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble for A Brass and Organ Holiday program featuring the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI. Admission.
December 21, Saturday at 2PM – members of the Red River Theatre Organ Society, Alex Swanson, Alex Moe, Dylan Thiele and Elliot Sander present the 1st annual Wurlitzer Winter Wonderland concert featuring the 12-rank Wurlitzer pipe organ at A Center for the Arts (124 West Lincoln Avenue) in Fergus Falls, MN. Admission.
December 22, Sunday at 9AM and 11AM – a presentation of Bob Chilcott’s Christmas Oratorio (premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in England in 2019) will be part of the morning worship, performed by the Plymouth Choir, led by Philip Brunelle with instrumentalists and soloists, at Plymouth Congregational Church (1900 Nicollet Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
December 22, Sunday at 1PM – resident musician Ed Copland accompanies two Laurel & Hardy silent films (Swiss Miss and Big Business) featuring the Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Heights Theatre (3951 Central Avenue NE) in Columbia Heights, MN. Admission.
December 22, Sunday at 2PM – Benton Schmidt, dean of the Red River Valley Chapter of the AGO presents a concert of seasonal music on the 46-rank Robert Sipe pipe organ at Gethsemane Episcopal Church (3600 25thStreet South) in Fargo, ND.
January 7, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Jeffrey Patry (1stLutheran, Columbia Heigthts, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
January 12, Sunday at 4PM – a special concert by Evelyn Rohrbach and Isabel Munson… recent TCAGO Young Artist 2024 Competition Winners…featuring the Brunzema-Casavant organ at Hamline United Methodist Church (1514 Englewood Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
January 14, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist and recording/concert artist James D. Hicks (Caligon, NJ) continues the 2024-2025 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.
January 15, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Nils Halker (St. Clement’s Episcopal, Saint Paul) plays the 4th concert in the 2024-2025 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.
January 17, Friday at 7PM – Sioux Falls Cathedral organist Jared Osterman plays a varied program on the 30-rank 1925 Skinner organ in Aalfs Auditorium on the campus of the University of South Dakota (414 East Clark Street) in Vermillion, SD. Free.
January 18, Saturday from 10:00-11:30AM – a special “Morning with the Felgemaker”, an interactive program for accompanied younger children built around music from The Carnival of the Animals to introduce youngsters to the 1898 Felgemaker pipe organ (the most significant historic instrument indigenous to Minnesota), at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West Fourth Street) in Duluth, MN. Free, plus juice and animal crackers at snack time!
January 26, Sunday at 4PM – resident musician Tom Ferry plays a solo concert on the 20-rank Casavant tracker-action organ at Como Park Lutheran Church (1376 Hoyt Avenue West) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
January 28, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist David Lim (St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal, White Bear Lake, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
February 2, Sunday at 4PM – guest musician Celina Kobetitsch plays a solo concert on the 20-rank Casavant tracker-action organ at Como Park Lutheran Church (1376 Hoyt Avenue West) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
February 4, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Isaac Drewes (Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
February 9, Sunday at 4PM – guest musician Aaron Looney plays a solo concert on the 20-rank Casavant tracker-action organ at Como Park Lutheran Church (1376 Hoyt Avenue West) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
February 11, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Davod Jaronowski (St. Rita RC Church, Solon, OH) continues the 2024-2025 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.
February 16, Sunday at 3PM – resident soloist Charles Sundquist plays period-perfect Romantic-era scores by Mendelssohn, Dudley Buck, and Josef Rheinberger on the 1898 Felgemaker pipe organ (the most significant historic instrument indigenous to Minnesota), at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West Fourth Street) in Duluth, MN. Admission $20, plus $5 student rush.
February 16, 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.
February 16, Sunday at 4PM – the flute-and-organ duo Flauto Dolce (Donna Hryniewicki & Stacie Lightner) present a concert on the 20-rank Casavant tracker-action organ at Como Park Lutheran Church (1376 Hoyt Avenue West) in Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
February 18, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Emily Roth (Congregational Church, Rochester, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
February 19, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Laura Edman (Stillwater) plays the 5th concert in the 2024-2025 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.
February 23, Sunday at 4PM – the annual VocalEssence “Witness” concert of choral music from the African-American tradition, including performances by organist Aaron David Miller, at Northrop (University of Minnesota main campus) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission.
February 25, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Samuel Backman (Holy Cross RC Church, Minneapolis, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
February 28, Friday at 7PM – guest organist Jason Roberts accompanies the Charlie Chaplin silent film “The Gold Rush” while playing the 51-rank Schantz pipe organ at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church (17205 County Road 6) in Plymouth, MN. Free/donation.
March 1, Saturday from 9AM-3PM – students from grades 3 through 12 are invited by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists to participate in Pipe Organ Discovery Day to learn about the pipe organ and get hands-on experience of the several instruments (by Fisk, Merklin and Jaeckel) available at House of Hope Presbyterian Church (797 Summit Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Pizza lunch provided. Registration required, at www.tcago.org.
March 2, 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.
March 7, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Sarah Hawbecker (Atlanta, GA) plays a solo concert on the 50-rank 2005 Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ at Augustana Lutheran Church (1400 South Robert Street) in West Saint Paul, MN. Free/donation.
March 7, Friday at 7PM – guest soloist Jelani Eddington accompanies the 1926 Harold Lloyd silent filme “Safety Last” in celebration of the refurbishment of the 56-rank Austin pipe organ at First United Methodist Church, “The Coppertop” (230 E. Skyline Parkway) in Duluth, MN. Admission.
March 9, Sunday at 3 PM – Northrop Organist Greg Zelek is joined by Canadian Brass trumpeter Caleb Hudson in a concert featuring the 64-rank Holtkamp and 47-rank Pasi pipe organs in the Abbey and University Church at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN. Free will offering.
March 9, Sunday at 4PM – music director Robert Buckley Farlee and cantor Andrew Stoebig lead a Lenten Procession of lessons and chorales featuring the 55-rank Schlicker pipe organ at Mount Olive Lutheran Church(3045 Chicago Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free.
March 11, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Simon Pick (Church of the Assumption, Saint Paul, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
March 15, Saturday from 9AM to 5PM – the annual (Before) Bach’s Birthday Bash, a sequence of free performances at various Twin Cities locations, co-sponsored by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and YourClassical Minnesota Public Radio. Venues and schedule TBA. The 9AM hour will be broadcast live by MPR.
March 15, Saturday at 7:30PM – organist Aaron David Miller accompanies The Singers, led by Matthew Culloton, in an all-French program including the Messe Basse by Fauré and the Requiem of Duruflé, featuring the Reuter organ at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (4801 France Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Admission. See also tomorrow.
March 16, Sunday at 3PM - organist Aaron David Miller accompanies The Singers, led by Matthew Culloton, in an all-French program including the Messe Basse by Fauré and the Requiem of Duruflé, featuring the Fisk and Merklin organs at House of Hope Presbyterian Church (797 Summit Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Admission.
March 16, Sunday at 3PM – Flauto Dolce, the duo of flutist Donna Hryniewicki and organist Stacie Lightner present a program featuring the 108-rank Casavant-Schantz organ at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (900 Stillwater Road) in Mahtomedi, MN. Free/donation.
March 18, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Benton Schmidt (Saint Paul’s Newman Center, Fargo, ND) continues the 2024-2025 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.
March 19, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – guest soloist Patrick Henning plays the 6th concert in the 2024-2025 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. No April recital.
March 21, Friday at 7PM – venerable local organist David Tryggestad plays a 75th Anniversary (his!) Gala Benefit Concert featuring the historic 1898 Felgemaker pipe organ at the Sacred Heart Music Center (201 West 4thStreet) in Duluth, MN. Admission (for the organ’s upkeep).
March 25, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Jacob Benda (University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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.
March 29, Saturday at 4PM – a special guest appearance by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, London directed by Simon Johnson, at St. John’s Benedictine Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN. Admission
March 30, Sunday at 2PM – area musician Charles Sundquist plays Marcel Dupre’s Le Chemin de la Croix in a recital featuring the 34-rank 1988 Sipe pipe organ at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary (2801 East 4th Street) in Duluth, MN. Free/donation.
April 1, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Emmanuel Hoede (Paris, France) continues the 2024-2025 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.
April 4, Friday at 7:30PM – a concert devoted to the music of Sir James MacMillan, including the premiere of a newly commissioned piece, presented by Philip Brunelle as part of the VocalEssence season but involving SEVEN Twin Cities church choirs and organ, at the Cathedral of Saint Paul (239 Selby Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Free.
April 5, Saturday, TBA – the annual TCAGO-Schubert Club Young Artists Organ Competition, managed by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and featuring the Dobson/Schlicker pipe organ, will be held at Normandale Lutheran Church (6100 Normandale Road) in Edina, MN. The public is invited, details TBA.
April 6, Sunday at 3PM – Sioux Falls Cathedral organist Jared Ostermann plays a program of Bach Lenten Chorale-preludes featuring the 43-rank Nordlie tracker-action organ in the chapel at Augustana University (2001 South Summit Avenue) in Sioux Falls, SD. Free.
April 6, 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.
April 8, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Filip Presseisen (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow, Poland) continues the 2024-2025 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.
April 22, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Andrew Schaeffer (Luther Memorial Church, Madison, WI) continues the 2024-2025 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.
April 26, Saturday from 9AM to Noon – young keyboard players are invited to investigate the potential of splendid Jaeckel pipe organs during a Pedals, Pipes and Pizza event at 1st Lutheran Church (1100 East Superior Street) in Duluth, MN. For more information and pre-registration contact the Arrowhead chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
April 29, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Kristina Rizzotto (Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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 2, Friday at 7:30PM – guest recitalist Balint Karosi (1st Presbyterian, Philadelphia) presents a solo concert of music by Bach and Friends under the auspices of the Bach Society of Minnesota featuring the magnificent 97-rank 1979 Fisk pipe organ at House of Hope Presbyterian Church (797 Summit Avenue) in Saint Paul, MN. Admission.
May 3, Saturday at 7PM – area organists present an evening In Praise of Bach featuring the 32-rank 1993 Marrin tracker-action organ in the chapel of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, MN. Free/donation.
May 6, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Richard Gray (St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Saint Paul, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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 6, Tuesday at 7PM – recently appointed Northrop Organist Greg Zelek presents an Organ Plus program with diverse other instrumental collaborators, 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 13, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Kathrine Handford (Church of St. Mark, St. Paul, MN) continues the 2024-2025 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 17, Saturday at 7:30PM – the Cathedral Choir, Choral Society and Orchestra, led by Raymond Johnston, present “Dona Nobis Pacem” by Ralph Vaughan Williams as the season’s concluding event in the Music Series of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral (519 Oak Grove) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
May 18, 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.
May 20, Tuesday at 12:35PM - guest soloist Charles Barlandn (University of Dubuque, IA) plays the final concert in the 2024-2025 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 21, Wednesday at 12:30 (following noon Mass) – resident soloist Joel Anderson plays the final concert in the 2024-2025 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.
June 1, Sunday at 3PM – a group of the best North Shore organists (Velda Graham Bell, Rosemary Guiney, Thomas Hamilton, Rachael Kresha, Charles Sundquist & David Tryggestad) will play a benefit concert to raise funds for restorative repairs to the historic 1883 Hook & Hastings (Opus 1165) pipe organ at Holy Spirit Catholic Church (227 Third Street) in Two Harbors, MN. Donation.
June 7 (Saturday) & 8 (Sunday) at 4PM – the 18th annual Bach Tage, led by Kathy Saltzman Romey, devoted to preparation and performance of Bach’s Cantata No. 74 and other works by Praetorius and Pachelbel, with the Mirandola Ensemble, including the 55-rank Schlicker pipe organ at Mount Olive Lutheran Church(3045 Chicago Avenue South) in Minneapolis, MN. Free/donation.
June 15, Sunday at 2PM – organist David Wickerham presents a Red, White & Blue Spectacular of musical Americana featuring the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI. Admission.
July 13, 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.
Postponed - Date TBA - 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.
