Note to attendees: While these events are free and open to the public, we ask that you register your attendance and any interest you have in participating as a performer in a masterclass by contacting the Hayden Ives-Glasgow, Event Registrar <hglasgow@iu.edu>
November 14-16, 2025 Fall Organ Weekend
Back to Bach
Friday, November 14th — Locations: First Presbyterian Church and Jacobs School of Music Auer and Ford concert halls
— 10:00am-12:00pm, Auer Hall — Improvisation Masterclass, Jeffrey Smith
— 3:00pm-5:00pm, First Presbyterian Church — Private or group repertoire coaching, Janette Fishell
— 8:00pm, Ford Hall — Pre-concert lecture, Daniel R. Melamed
— 8:45pm, Ford Hall — Historical Performance Institute Faculty and Guest Performance: Sonatas, arias and solo instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin, Kathie Stewart, baroque flute, Meg Brown Owens, baroque oboe, Macarena Sánchez Ruiz, baroque ‘cello, Thomas Cooley, tenor, Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord and chamber organ
Saturday, November 15th — All events held in Alumni Hall, IU Memorial Union
— 10:00am-12:00pm & 1:30-3:00 — Masterclass with Ludger Lohmann, coaching performances of visiting organists on the C.B. Fisk, Op. 91
— 4:00pm-5:30pm — Jacobs Organ Department Student recital: “Bach Under the Influence”
— 7:30pm — Pre-concert lecture, Daniel R. Melamed: Listening to J.S. Bach’s Art of Fugue.
— 8:15pm, Alumni Hall — Ludger Lohmann, organ recital, Die Kunst die Fuge, BWV 1080
Sunday, November 16th — All events held in Alumni Hall, IU Memorial Union
— 4:00 pm — Johann Sebastian Bach’s Missa in A BWV 234, and Cantata BWV 115: Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, Teodor Riccios’s Motet: De Profundis, Chorales, chants, and psalms sung in liturgical context. Jeffrey Smith, directing Jacobs School of Music faculty and students, Daniel R. Melamed, explication.
— 9 pm — Compline, JSOM Compline Choir, Jeffrey Smith, director
February 13-15, 2026 Organ Weekend
Before BACH
Friday, February 13th
— 12:30pm-6:00pm — Auditions in Auer Hall, Simon Music Center, on Fisk, Op. 135
— 7:30pm, Alumni Hall — Pre-concert lecture, Dana Marsh, Rhetoric in 17th century Music: Presenter
— 8:15pm, Alumni Hall — Opening recital by Ludger Lohmann on the C.B. Fisk, Op. 91 organ of Alumni Hall, featuring music of 17th and early 18th century French and German composers
Saturday, February 14th — Locations: First Presbyterian Church and Jacobs School of Music Auer and Ford concert halls
8:00-9:30am — Auditions in Auer Hall
10:00am-12:00pm, Auer Hall — Masterclass with Ludger Lohmann on the C.B. Fisk, Op. 135 organ of Auer Hall
1:30pm-3:30pm — Ludger Lohmann Masterclass, cont. on the Paul Fritts, Op. 41 organ of First Presbyterian Church
4:30pm-6:00pm — Masterclasses on repertoire of the performer’s choice (Janette Fishell in Auer Hall) and improvisation in Baroque idioms (Jeffrey Smith, MA 406)
8 pm – 9:15 pm, Auer Hall — Chamber Concert: 17th and early 18th century solo and chamber music
Sunday, Feb. 15 — Locations: Auer Hall and Alumni Hall
2:00pm — Alternatim: Sacred organ works from the 15th-18th centuries with sung interpolations, presented by students of the Jacobs School of Music.
4:00pm — Baroque Orchestra concert, presented by the Historical Performance Department, Ingrid Matthews, conductor, Auer Hall.
9:00pm — Compline, featuring music of 17th century England, directed by Jeffrey Smith, Alumni Hall.