Serving Southwest Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois! The mission of the American Guild of Organists is to foster a thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and inspire passion for the organ. Our chapter provides and supports organ-related programs and events in the Tri-State area, and offers scholarships for organ lessons.
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4pm Central Time, at First Presbyterian Church in Evansville, with Evansville A.G.O. members performing. The concert will feature all three pipe organs at First Presbyterian, the large C. B. Fisk Opus 98, our chapter's historic Giesecke organ, and the Brunzema portative or "Kisten Orgel". Facebook Event link.
First Presbyterian Church in Evansville will present a Recital by Emily Ballentine Erb, an organ student at Indiana University, May 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm Central Time.
Brief chapter meeting at 5:45pm Central Time. The service begins at 6pm. Dinner at Turoni's on N. Main St. after the service.
The Evansville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists offers scholarships to encourage young students to take organ lessons. Scholarships generally subsidize half of an organ teacher’s fee. Please email us at evansvilleago@yahoo.com for more information.
Our chapter hosted a Pedals, Pipes & Pizza event in March 2024, and had a pipe organ display at the 2024 New Tech High School's STEM Fest.RECENT EVENTS:
Our chapter sponsored a concert by guest organist Wolff von Roos from Indianapolis on the A. E. Schlueter organ at Saints Mary and John Parish in Evansville on November 10, 2023. The concert can be watched on Facebook.
We enjoyed an end-of-summer social on Monday, September 11, 2023, sharing some good food along with summer conference and travel reports, a discussion of future chapter events and a demonstration of our host's historic two-manual and pedal, Estey Style-T reed organ.
Several members of our chapter played in the re-dedication of the historic Möller organ at First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Vernon, IN on Sunday afternoon, June 15, 2023.
Click here to watch a YouTube video
of our April 2023 Bach Trio Sonata program.
Click here to watch a YouTube video
of our May 2022 installation service at Methodist Temple UMC
Other previous programs are available on our YouTube page (link below).
The Historic
Edmund Giesecke Organ
Restored in Memory of Helen Skuggedal Reed
This historic organ was purchased by the
Evansville AGO Chapter. The chapter commissioned
Taylor and Boody Organbuilders to restore it. It can
be seen, heard and played at First Presbyterian
Church in Evansville. You can contact our chapter or
First Presbyterian for more information.
For a stoplist and history of the Tinker Memorial Organ, including some of the Evansville AGO Chapter's connections with the instrument, click here.