50th Anniversary of the Casavant Organ at CSU

Colorado State University’s Casavant Frères Organ was designed and voiced specifically for the university by Lawrence I. Phelps, in consultation with former CSU organ professor Robert Cavarra. Installed in 1968 in the previous music building on the Oval, it is one of the first modern mechanical-action (tracker) organs built at an American university and is considered a landmark instrument in the “Organ Revival” movement. Boasting 2,079 pipes, the organ was constructed in a style emulating 17th and 18th century German organ building principles. The legacy of the organ has earned CSU an international reputation as the keeper of one of the finest organs built in the 20th century. Join us in 2018 for a series of concerts celebrating the 50^th anniversary of our beloved instrument!

About Vincent Warnier

Noted French organist Vincent Warnier attended conservatories in Strasbourg, Rueil-Malmaison, and Paris, counting the world’s foremost organists among his teachers and achieving the highest teaching qualification in the French system. In 1995, he became the organist of the Reformed Church of the Annunciation in Paris, and succeeded Pierre Camonin as organist at Notre-Dame de Verdun. In addition to performing world-wide, he is the resident organist at the Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris, where he succeeded Maurice Duruflé.

Read the Vincent Warnier Recital Program.