Featuring the Fort Collins Symphony, Directed by Wes Kenney
with Joel Bacon, James David Christie, and Ken Cowan

An evening of organ music with three internationally acclaimed soloists and the Fort Collins Symphony, conducted by Wes Kenney. Ken Cowan, professor of organ at Rice University, will perform Josef Rheinberger’s Organ Concerto no. 2 in G minor, one of the most popular and tuneful organ concertos of the romantic era. CSU’s Joel Bacon, Stewart and Sheron Golden Chair of Organ and Liturgical Studies, will present Stephen Paulus’ contemporary masterpiece, Concerto no. 1 for Organ, Strings, and Percussion. James David Christie, professor of organ at Oberlin University and organist with the Boston Symphony, will present Francis Poulenc’s gripping and dramatic Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G minor.

The concert will be followed by a gala reception sponsored by Home State Bank.

Organ Week is sponsored in-part by Home State Bank.