Southern Arizona American Guild of Organists

Steinway Series: Natasha Stojanovska, Pianist & Composer In Concert
2026-03-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85728
Saturday, March 21, 4 p.m.
Saint Philip’s in the Hills
Free, donations gratefully accepted

Janet Tolman, Organ, with the Arizona Symphonic Winds
2026-04-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Christ Church United Methodist, 655 N. Craycroft Rd., Tucson, Arizona
Sunday, April 12, 3 p.m.,
Christ Church United Methodist
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The Arizona Symphonic Winds, under the direction of László Veres, will for the first time in its 40-year history, perform a major work with organ, featuring organist and past chapter dean, Janet Tolman, in Saint-Saens “Finale” from “Symphony No. 3.” Comprised of 65 volunteers, Arizona Winds, presents concerts throughout the Tucson area and is well known for its free concerts in the park. The band frequently showcases both professional and amateur soloists as well as talented young performers at its concerts. Both László Veres and Janet Tolman are well known to the Tucson musical community. Be sure to mark your calendar for this unique performance.

St. Andrew's Concert Series presents "An Evening with Friends"
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, 800 Taylor Street, Sierra Vista, AZ, 85635, United States
St. Andrew the Apostle Church
April 17, 2026 at 7 PM.
800 Taylor Drive
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
Local artists Billie Hayes and Francie Schofield will perform an eclectic mix of musical styles ranging from Broadway show tunes and Hollywood movie themes to Cathedral hymns and Concert Hall classics in arrangements featuring both solo works and duets for organ, piano and flute.
There is no charge to attend this concert, a freewill offering will be accepted for the ongoing maintenance and restoration of the historic 1949 Moeller pipe organ, the largest in Cochise County.

How the West Was Won - Dr. Valerie Harris, Dean, Central AZ Chapter AGO (CAZAGO)
2026-04-18 10:00 - 12:00 | St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte, Tucson, AZ, United States
Saturday, Apr. 18, 10 a.m.
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
7650 N. Paseo Del Norte
Tucson, AZ
Step back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries and join us in exploring how music, tourism, and ambition transformed the West — and how this legacy still resonates today on a worldwide audience.
Discover how the organ helped redefine the American West. During the golden age of railroad travel, visitors from the East flocked to Salt Lake City, where the Salt Lake Tabernacle and its famed organ became the highlight of their journey. Historical Fact: “By 1901, a regular schedule of daily organ recitals was instituted with rail travelers visiting daily… BY THE THOUSANDS! As railroads promoted these recitals, they helped reshape the image of the West—from rugged and untamed to cultured, beautiful, and inviting. Inspired by this movement, communities across the region — including Tucson — embraced organ music as a symbol of refinement and civic pride, launching their own recital traditions.
Valerie Harris, DEAN, Central Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (CAZAGO) will present a particularly interesting workshop regarding the intermingling of the development of the Arts, specifically music, in the West in conjunction with the arrival of the railroads. Dean Harris is a concert organist, church musician, presenter and educator, who performs regularly as guest recitalist on the historic Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, and at the Musical Instrument Museum on the 1859 Robjohn organ. She holds a DMA in Organ Performance from Arizona State University, where she studied with Kimberly Marshall. She holds a Master’s in Organ Performance and a Graduate Certificate of Church Music from Shenandoah Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music degree from Brigham Young University.
From the roar of the rails to the voice of the organ; one journey, one instrument, one unforgettable story — don’t miss the story which changed the sound of the West forever.

St. Alban's Concert Series Presents: An Afternoon With Ji Sun Lee, Organ & Michael Lich, Guitar
2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3738 N Old Sabino Canyon Rd, Tucson, Arizona
Sunday, Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
3738 N Old Sabino Canyon Rd.
Free Will Offering
The concert features Dr. Ji Sun Lee, St. Alban’s new music director, and her husband, Michael Lich, classical guitarist. The Lee/Lich duo has performed in S. Korea, Germany, and extensively in the US. The program includes the premiere duo performance of Kip Winger’s work, “Windrunner,” originally for guitar and orchestra. The performance also includes solo and duo works by Vivaldi, Bach, Schubert and more.

Catalina Organ Festival presents - Dong-ill Shin, Organ
2026-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85716, United States
Monday, Apr. 27, 7 p.m.
Catalina United Methodist Church
2700 E. Speedway Blvd.
Admission:
$10 – Student
$25 – Seniors
$30 – Under 60 yrs of age
Don-ill Shin is a renowned South Korean organist, a professor at Yonsei University, as well as the University organist. Don-ill Shin is well known for winning major international competitions; as well as his innovative collaborations with traditional Korean instruments and classical artists like Yo-Yo Ma.

ST MICHAEL’S FESTIVAL CHOIR 2026 IN CONCERT - 5/2/2026
2026-05-02 15:00 - 21:00 | St. Michael and All Angels Church, 602 N Wilmot Rd., Tucson, Arizona
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
602 N Wilmot
Tucson, AZ 85711
(520) 886-7292
https://www.smallangelstucson.org/
Performances are on May 2, 2026 at 3pm and 7pm at St Michael’s Episcopal Church (602 N Wilmot)
While the Choir will be singing 4 pieces totaling about 25 minutes worth of music, the first half of the concert will be the Poulenc Organ Concerto.

Organ Exploration/Two organ-Mini Crawl, Open Console
2026-05-09 | AZ
Organ Exploration/Two organ-Mini Crawl, Open Console
Saturday, May 9

¨ 9 a.m., Northminster Presbyterian Church
2450 E. Ft. Lowell Rd.

¨ 10:30 a.m., Catalina United Methodist Church
2700 East Speedway Blvd.

Lunch provided courtesy of the chapter

Join your colleagues to see, hear and play two notable Tucson instruments, both designed and built by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrensburg, MO.
The first stop is Northminster (Opus 51, 3 manuals, 46 ranks) where you will be greeted by John Brobeck, Director of Music and Organist. He’ll share a little bit about the instrument and open the chambers to allow members to examine the layout of the pipes. Members will have the opportunity to play the instrument before proceeding to Catalina.
Our second stop is Catalina United Methodist’s Opus70, 4/57 Quimby built oran. Dave Horr, SAAGO Secretary/Treasurer, will greet you and share a little bit about the instrument. (Dave is filling in for Mariana Mevans who has a Mother’s Day event with her son that
morning.) Once again, members will have opportunity to play the instrument. However, the chambers are inaccessible to all except organ technicians. There will be handouts with the specs and some organ builder history.
Established in 1970, QPO began as a tuning and maintenance firm and developed into one of the premier organ building firms in the country. Its first comprehensive new pipe organ was built in 1987 and consisted of three-manuals and 42 ranks. Since that installation, QPO has built pipe organs of all sizes, from small two-manuals up to its current magnum opus of five-manuals and 155 ranks. A sampling of QPO installations follows: Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC, 151 ranks), Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago, 143 ranks), First Baptist Church (Jackson, MS, 155 ranks), St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (Palm Desert, CA, 71 ranks), Cathedral of St. Paul, MN (86 ranks), Jacoby Symphony Hall (Jacksonville, FL, 98 ranks), —and, of course, Tucson, AZ.
Please let Dee Schultz know that you plan to be there for lunch. This makes her planning much easier (adschul@yahoo.com or 520-343-5343).

Youth of St. Philip’s Fundraising Concert Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7 p.m. Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church
2026-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85728
Youth of St. Philip’s Fundraising Concert
Saturday – May 9, 2026
7 p.m.
Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church
4440 N. Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85728
All are invited to hear Saint Philip’s youth in concert at 7:00pm on Saturday, May 9, 2026.
For their annual UK Residency fundraising concert, the Saint Nicholas Choir and Appel/Friesen string quintet return with performances of favorite liturgical anthems, canticles, and folk song arrangements, featuring upper voices, organ, and string ensembles.
Come celebrate these wonderful young musicians and support a good musical cause at Saint Philip’s.
This is a free concert but donations for the 2027 UK Residency & Pilgrimage will be accepted gratefully.
Jeffrey Campbell, D.Mus., ARCCO
Associate Director of Music & Organist
Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church
4440 N. Campbell Avenue
Tucson, Arizona, USA 85728
stphilipstucson.org/music
(520)299-6421

St. Andrew’s Concert Series presents The Return Engagement of Jeffrey Campbell, Organist
2026-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, 800 Taylor Street, Sierra Vista, AZ, 85635, United States
JEFFREY CAMPBELL is the Associate Music Director and Principal Organist of Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church in Tucson, a position he has held since the fall of 2001. He has performed widely as a solo organist and choral accompanist, most recently accompanying the Saint Philip’s Youth (St. Nicholas) Choir and Schola adults on their July 2024 Choral Residency in Lincoln Cathedral, UK, where they sang Daily Choral Evensong and Sunday Choral Eucharist. He plays the organ for Sunday morning Choral Eucharist, as well as weekly Choral Evensong (the only Episcopal parish in Arizona to continue this tradition) as well as for the many additional liturgies of Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Other recent solo engagements include a program at Saint Alban’s Church, Tucson, as part of their organ series, where he shared the organ bench with their Emeritus organist, Steven Keyl.
For his return engagement at St. Andrew’s, Jeffrey will be presenting “A Panorama of Organ Music from Bach to Franck and Beyond…” Featuring the music of J. S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Cesar Franck, Louis Vierne and Georgi Mushel.

CAZAGO's END-OF-SEASON SPRING SOCIAL @ Organ Stop Pizza ft Glenn Tallar
2026-05-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa, Arizona, 1149 E Southern Ave, Mesa, Arizona

SAAGO's June 7, 2026 Summer Social Potluck & Business Meeting
2026-06-07 16:00 - 20:00 | Colonia Verde Club House, 2700 North Camino Valle Verde, Tucson, AZ, United States
Join your Chapter friends for fellowship, potluck dinner, and a brief business meeting at the beautiful Clubhouse at Colonia Verde! Non-members are welcome to attend for food, fellowship, and information. Bring any organ music you no longer want. Contact Dee Schultz by phone: 530-343-5343; or via e-mail: adschultz@yahoo.com by THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2026 to let her know what dish you’ll be bringing. Utensils and soft drinks will be provided.
Click on the flier image (below) to download the 2 page PDF which includes driving directions to the venue.

St. Andrew's Concert Series Presents - "A Salute to America"
2026-07-10 08:00 - 17:00 | St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, 800 Taylor Street, Sierra Vista, AZ, 85635, United States
St. Andrew’s Concert Series presents “A Salute to America” featuring the Seipp/Fickley Duo.
Friday, July 10, 2026 at 7PM.
St. Andrew the Apostle Church
800 Taylor Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
Please join us for a musical celebration of USA250 with Chuck Seipp, Trumpet and Todd Fickley, Organ as they play rousing Patriotic songs and reverent Hymns including an audience Sing-along and a tribute to our Veterans and Active Duty Military. Set to a moving video presentation the duo takes us on a visual journey across America while performing favorites such as Battle Hymn of the Republic, Mansions of the Lord, God Bless America and other stirring songs on the historic 1949 Moeller III/30 Pipe Organ, the largest instrument in Cochise County.

Trumpeter Chuck Seipp culminated his 32-year career from The United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” as Concert Band Group Leader. Sergeant Major Seipp performed at national, presidential, and historical world events, at concerts and special events in Washington, D.C., and for funerals and wreath-laying ceremonies in Arlington National Cemetery. He performed with the Concert Band, Orchestra, Ceremonial Band, Herald Trumpets, The Army Brass Quintet, and was a featured soloist. Chuck has toured and recorded throughout Europe with world–renowned organist Diane Bish, appearing regularly on her “Joy of Music” television series. As an active teacher, soloist, clinician, and performer, he has performed locally with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington Opera House Orchestra, Washington Ballet Orchestra, and Washington Bach Consort. He also leads and is active throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region with The Commonwealth Brass Quintet. From 2014 to 2024, Chuck managed the Seipp/Sheets Trumpet and Organ Duo orchestrating 150 concerts across 25 states.
Todd Fickley is the Organist of National Presbyterian Church and the Artistic Director Designate of Choralis. Equally comfortable at the podium, harpsichord, piano, and organ, Mr. Fickley’s career spans over 35 years performing across the United States, Europe, and Israel. He collaborates with a wide variety of ensembles, such as the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Washington Ballet, the National Philharmonic, and the Three Notch’d Road baroque ensemble. He also performs frequently as part of the innovative Seipp/Fickley Trumpet and Organ Duo. A native Washingtonian, he began his organ studies already as an accomplished pianist at the Washington National Cathedral under Bruce Neswick. At the age of 23, Mr. Fickley was made a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). He also holds the AGO Choirmaster Diploma as well as the M.A. in Organ Performance with High Distinction from the University of Wales.

SAAGO Educational Series: "Look, Ma, No Hands!" Using ForScore Presented by Dr. Valerie Harris
2026-10-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85716, United States
Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM
Catalina United Methodist Church
2700 E. Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ
Dr. Harris presents a workshop on using ForScore, the sheet music digital app designed exclusively for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. The app’s clean interface gives you quick access to the tools you need, then fades away so you can focus on your music. Musicians can use the app to digitally organize their music libraries; turn pages via screen taps, custom gestures, or hands-free with a Bluetooth pedal. This amazingly powerful app allows one to annotate, create setlists, rearrange pages, add bookmarks, play along to an audio track, and more with an abundance of tools to help you turn practice into performance.
This all sounds complicated; however, Dr. Harris breaks the app down into understandable parts in her presentation with demonstrations of how the app works. More and more musicians are using tablets these days rather than carrying around suitcases filled with scores and lead sheets; therefore, this is a presentation YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS!!
