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 organ-related programs and events in the Tri-state area, and offers scholarships for organ lessons.
Organ-Related Events in our Community:
- First Friday Organ Recitals: First Presbyterian Church in Evansville will be presenting organ recitals on February 2, March 1, and April 5 of 2024, all beginning at 7:00 p.m. Central Time, lasting about an hour and featuring students from the organ department at the Indiana University Bloomington Jacobs School of Music.
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 audience of around eighty people enjoyed Wolff's improvisations based on melodies ranging from Latin chant to pop that took full advantage of the organ's resources, as well as his memorized renditions of compositions and transcriptions of Romantic period and contemporary composers. We also enjoyed some social time with Wolff at a local pizza place/brewery the evening before. The concert can be watched on Facebook.RECENT EVENTS:
Our chapter enjoyed an End-of-Summer Social on Monday, September 11, 2023 at the home of a chapter member, sharing good food and drink, summer conference and travel reports, a discussion of future chapter events and a short performance of pieces on our host's historic two-manual and pedal, Estey Style-T, hand-cranked 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 brief clips from our November 2022
program featuring our chapter's historic Giesecke organ.
Made in
Evansville!
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.
Contact Robert Nicholls at
robertn@firstpresevansville.com
or by calling the church for more information.
