The 2023–24 season of organ concerts at Arizona State University takes the listener through over 500 years of organ music from both sides of the Atlantic while showcasing the Fritts and Traeri organs in ASU’s Organ Hall.
“Throughout this year’s season, the organist’s art of improvisation figures prominently alongside the notated repertoire,” said Kimberly Marshall, ASU Goldman Professor of Organ.
The Fritts Organ in ASU’s Organ Hall on the Tempe campus. Photo courtesy the School of Music, Dance and Theatre
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The series opens Nov. 12 with “Tradition and Innovation,” highlighting Marshall as she performs some of the oldest and newest music of the organ repertoire, including works from the earliest printed organ music by Arnolt Schlick in 1512 to music composed in 2013 by Tempe-based composer Joseph Clayton Mills.
The Feb. 4 concert, “Flights of Fantasy: Notated and Improvised,” features Viennese organist Johannes Ebenbauer. Ebenbauer performs and improvises a concert of organ fantasies, including works by Frescobaldi, Froberger, Bach and Heiller. The concert is co-sponsored by the Central Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
The ASU Organ Studio presents its first concert Feb. 18, “Exploring the Book of Job Through Music,” performing Czech composer Petr Eben’s “Job” for organ with eight movements of music expressing salient passages from the biblical Book of Job.
The season closes May 19 with the ASU Organ Studio’s “Rediscovering the Muse: A Program of Organ Music by Women Composers,” including works by Margaret Sandresky, Pamela Decker and Angela Kraft Cross as part of the 2024 National Conference of Musforum, an organization of female organists.
All programs are in the ASU Organ Hall on the Tempe campus.
2023-24 ASU Organ season:
Kimberly Marshall, Goldman Professor of Organ
“Tradition and Innovation”
2:20 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12
Tickets available on the Herberger Institute box office website.
Johannes Ebenbauer, guest artist
“Flights of Fantasy: Notated and Improvised”
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024
Tickets available on the Herberger Institute box office website.
ASU Organ Studio
“Exploring the Book of Job Through Music”
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024
Free
ASU Organ Studio
“Rediscovering the Muse: A Program of Organ Music by Women Composers”
2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2024
Free
