The concert features Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and selected “Schübler Chorales,” works by Kristina Rizzoto and Florence Price, the Bizet/Lemare Carmen, and improvised organ accompaniment to two silent films: Laurel and Hardy’s “Big Business” (1929) and the final scene of “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925).
Regarded across America and around the world as one of today’s finest concert organists, Todd Wilson serves as head of the Organ Department at The Cleveland Institute of Music, and Curator of the E.M. Skinner pipe organ at Severance Music Center (home of The Cleveland Orchestra).
Todd Wilson has been heard in recital at many major venues throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including Symphony Hall (Birmingham, UK), Westminster Abbey (London, UK), St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (Ireland), Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center, Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall, Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Milwaukee’s Uihlein Hall, Washington National Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, and the 21,000-seat Mormon Conference Center in Salt Lake City. He also was a recitalist for Austrian Radio in Vienna, and in 2005 presented his first solo recital in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Wilson has appeared with many orchestras around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic for whom in 2004 he was featured organ soloist on the first orchestra subscription series concerts featuring the new Walt Disney Concert Hall organ, the Nashville Symphony, the Slovakian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic, and The City of London Sinfonia. https://www.concertorganists.com/artists/todd-wilson/
Organ Week Schedule
- Sunday, June 9, 4 PM | Jason Moy, Solo Harpsichord Concert Organ Recital Hall, UCA
- Monday, June 10, 7:30 PM | Todd Wilson, Solo Organ Recital / FREE | Organ Concert at First Presbyterian Church
- Tuesday, June 11, 7:30 PM | Ken Cowan, Solo Organ Recital / FREE | Organ Concert at First United Methodist Church
- Wednesday, June 12, 7:30 PM | Joel Bacon, Organ, Jason Moy, Harpsichord, and Maurice Steger, Recorder Concert, Organ Recital Hall, UCA
- Thursday, June 13, 6 PM | High School Camp Concert, Organ Recital Hall, UCA, FREE