Composer

In connection with the World Exhibition in 1878, Cavaillé-Coll builds an organ in the Trocadéro Palace, close to where the Eiffel Tower was later built. This is where Widor himself premiered his 6th organ symphony: The 5-movement symphony, which we here in Odense present on the Carl Nielsen Hall's concert organ; built by Marcussen & Søn.
Charles Bizet was a child prodigy, but died early, already at the age of 36. Before that he had composed one of the world's greatest operas, Carmen, among many other things.

Bizet & Widor

Odense Concert Hall

The glorious sound of The Bridgewater Hall’s Marcussen Concert Organ comes into its own today as Associate Artist Jonathan Scott performs a programme of some of the organ’s greatest masterpieces, including Albinoni’s famous Adagio and Widor’s Toccata.

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Jonathan Scott: Greatest Organ Music

The Bridgewater Hall

Join Guest Organist Gabrielle McDougall in Overture Hall during the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Capitol Square to enjoy a FREE organ concert! Bring your family and friends for a relaxing 45-minute free concert. No tickets or reservations are needed and all ages are welcome! Discover more about our Free Farmers’ Market Organ Concert Series.

Free Farmers’ Market Organ Concert: Gabrielle McDougall

Overture Center for the Arts

Renowned organist, pianist and collaborative musician Alex Leonardi seeks to spark a new kind of music making in classical music by diversifying the expression of music through unique concerts and innovative collaborative opportunities that reshape the way audiences experience music.

Alexander Leonardi, organist

Broadway Presbyterian Church

Travel through three centuries of French music with organist and composer Jean-Baptiste Robin for a concert that will splendour on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique.

Ravel and Debussy on the Organ

Place des Arts

He includes Healey Willan’s lesser-known Passacaglia & Fugue in E minor, and finishes with a complete performance of Widor’s famous Symphony No. 5 with its glorious Toccata.

Stefan Donner

Huddersfield Town Hall

Prize-winning Austrian organist and harpsichordist Stefan Donner visits from Vienna to play at Huddersfield Town Hall. He includes Healey Willan’s lesser-known Passacaglia & Fugue in E minor, and finishes with a complete performance of Widor’s famous Symphony No. 5 with its glorious Toccata.

We present you celebratory organ music to mark the end of the year at this organ gala – performed on the large Sauer organ in the Frankfurt Concert Hall, which has 4,000 pipes and 50 registers.

2nd Sunday Matinee – Organ Gala with Denny Wilke

The event is free and you can just show up without a ticket. Please come in good time.

Organ concert

Musikhuset Aarhus

Live at the Winspear is excited to present performer and pedagogue Nathan Laube for his thrilling debut performance on the Davis Concert Organ. Known for his brilliant playing, gracious demeanour, and creative programming of repertoire spanning five centuries, he has earned high praise from critics and peers alike. The program will include Laube's own transcription of Franz Liszt's Sonata in B Minor, one of his most magnificent works for the keyboard.

Laube Plays Liszt

Winspear Centre

Student Recital: Eric Huang

Carnegie Mellon University

Study concert with organ students under Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen, Kristian Krogsøe and Philip Schmidt-Madsen

Study concert with organ students

Jesuskirken

Ken Cowan, Organ

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Miguel Rodriguez, flute and piccolo

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Elizabeth Kleiber is a student of Marianne Gedigian. 

Elizabeth Kleiber, Flute

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ.

Holiday Organ Spectacular

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The Pomona College Choir, under the direction of Donna M. Di Grazia, boasts a membership of approximately 70-80 auditioned singers per semester, with student, faculty, and staff representatives from across the Claremont Colleges. Its repertoire includes Western classical art music from all historical periods, and it has offered stirring performances of works ranging from Palestrina’s Exultate Deo to Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine and Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei. This program features works by Pomona College’s esteemed faculty composer Tom Flaherty, Franz Biebl, Adolphus Hailstork, and Morten Lauridsen, plus a selection by Widor performed by award-winning organist Dr. Weicheng Zhao, our new College Organist for his inaugural performance on Pomona’s campus.

Pomona College Choir in Concert 2023 Concert 1

Pomona College

After his last performance in Madison in 2017 alongside his wife, violinist Lisa Shihoten, Ken Cowan now returns to Overture Hall for a solo concert. With a program featuring selections from Elgar’s Organ Sonata and Bach’s powerful Prelude and Fugue in E minor, as well as Mr. Cowan’s own virtuosic transcription of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, I know the audience will be awed by Mr. Cowan’s incredible technique and refined artistry. – Greg Zelek

Ken Cowan

See the conducting stars of tomorrow in these engaging concerts where student conductors rotate between conducting a movement of a work, or playing in the orchestra. Program Director and AMFS Music Director Robert Spano observes the work of his students at this weekly event.

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra

Aspen Meadows Resort

Organ student Oak Martin will present a program that includes works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Mary Beth Bennett, Herbert Howells, Leslie Adams, Louis Vierne, J.S. Bach and Charles-Marie Widor on Saturday, April 29th at 7:00 PM at All Hallows Episcopal Church in Wyncote. He will be joined by Christopher Correa in a duet for organ and oboe.

Curtis at All Hallows

All Hallows Episcopal Church

Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the semester, held on most Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. Admission requires advance registration and is complimentary.

Flute, Violin, and Piano

Curtis Institute of Music

Chenmeng Li (B.M. '23) presents a flute recital.

Student Recital: Chenmeng Li, Flute

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ, named in honor of Henry Simmons Frieze, a professor of Latin and the founding president of UMS, is the focal point of the auditorium’s unique parabolic interior and one of the first great organs to rely on electrical connections from its keys. Frieze believed the shared experience of music was essential to a liberal education and to community life. Today, the organ is available to the University of Michigan students and faculty for teaching, practice, and performances to continue celebrating the beauty and diversity of the instrument.

UMS Live Session: Christian Schmitt, Organ

With invitations from the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Salzburg Festival and the Musikverein Vienna, ECHO award winner Christian Schmitt is undoubtedly one of the most sought-after concert organists of our time. Known for his virtuosic and charismatic playing, Christian is an “Artist in Focus” of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as well as curator of the “International Organ Days.” Join us in welcoming him to the Meyerson!

Christian Schmitt | Gould Family Organ Recital Series

Meyerson Symphony Center

I am excited to announce a new program for our February 28 organ concert! I have the pleasure of performing alongside the great trombonist, Mark Hetzler, who last performed with me in the successful Organ and Diapason Brass concert that closed our last season. A former member of the Empire Brass, and now professor at UW-Madison, Mark has toured the world as both a soloist and ensemble member, playing a wide range of repertoire. With a program featuring a New Orleans-style version of When the Saints Go Marching In, classical arrangements of Bach and Mendelssohn, and original compositions by Mark himself, I have no doubt that the audience is going to be moved and thrilled. Mark and I can’t wait to have a blast with you all at this unique Organ and Trombone concert. See you there!  – Greg Zelek

Greg Zelek & Mark Hetzler

Bestowing possibly the greatest music review in history, Joseph Haydn remarked to Leopold Mozart in 1785, “Before God and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name.” In this program, you will hear the exact quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that inspired these words, preceded by one of Haydn’s finest works that inspired Mozart to dedicate quartets to the elder master. French composers Reynaldo Hahn, Paul Dukas, Vincent D’Indy, and Charles-Marie Widor contribute colorful homages to Haydn, for solo piano, written on the hundredth anniversary of his death. Concluding the concert is a bracing juxtaposition of the defining giants of Impressionism, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, bringing their mutual respect—and perhaps even rivalry—to life on stage.

This concert is preceded by a free afternoon Prelude Performance at 5 p.m. by the 2022 International Program artists. Prelude programs will be announced in May.

CONCERT PROGRAM V Admiration

Menlo School Campus

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe, $3.1 million William J. Gillespie Concert Organ.

The British organist’s improvised tributes to Bernstein and Beethoven will amaze.

Wayne Marshall Performs Bernstein and Beethoven

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Making his Winspear Centre debut, Polish organist Karol Mossakowski is renowned as a master of interpretation and improvisation skills. In this dynamic and engaging performance, he will perform all six of J.S. Bach’s Schübler Chorales, with each piece followed by his own interpretation. This performance will also include Charles-Marie Widor's entire Organ Symphony No. 5, which concludes with the famous Toccata often heard at weddings and celebrations.

Bach & Symphony for Organ

Explore both classics and rarities of the chamber music repertoire.

Družecký, Loeffler, & Widor

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

concert together with our solo trumpeter, Manuel Mischel, and our solo trombonist, Philippe Stier. The sonata by the Venetian composer Dario Castello, born in 1602, offers an enormous range of emotions. In Widor's organ symphony from 1878, a vast array of stops are pulled out around a chorale-like theme, creating a brilliant sonic experience. Berio's "Sequenza" from 1966 explicitly prescribes elements of theatrical performance, including conscious breathing and vocal technique. The two organ movements, published only after Mendelssohn's death, were combined into a single sonata in 1993 with a new instrumentation – and represent a compelling musical experiment. 

Organ concert: Christian Schmitt, Manuel Mischel, Philippe Stier

Bamberger Symphoniker

In this solo recital, organist Jan Kraybill showcases her exceptional command of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique’s pedalboard, guiding you on a unique musical voyage from Bach’s Baroque Germany to Sowerby’s America. This is something you’ll want to see and hear!

Composer

Charles-Marie Widor

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 17, 2026

Bach & Symphony for Organ · Winspear Centre

Mar 19, 2026

Družecký, Loeffler, & Widor · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Apr 12, 2026

Organ concert: Christian Schmitt, Manuel Mischel, Philippe Stier · Bamberger Symphoniker

Apr 26, 2026

The organ put its best feet foward · Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Past events

Sep 25, 2025

Bizet & Widor · Odense Symphony Orchestra

Sep 8, 2025

Jonathan Scott: Greatest Organ Music · The Bridgewater Hall

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