27th Annual
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford
BIENNIAL YOUNG PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Young Professional Competition
Jacob Gruss—First Prize and Audience Prize
Nathan Ringkamp—Second Prize
Bethany Dame—Third Prize
Watch their performances below!
Each organist presents a 45-minute solo recital. A light lunch is provided during the interval. The competition will also be live-streamed from this website, see below. Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Information about parking at Trinity College is available here.
Bethany Dame
Third Prize
Nathan Ringkamp
Second Prize
Jacob Gruss
First Prize and Audience Prize
Click here to learn more about this year’s finalists.
The Finals Jury
Music for Grand Organ and Orchestra
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Hanson Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings, Op. 22, No. 3
Guilmant Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42
And a performance from this year’s First-Prize Winner!
Tickets required, available at www.HartfordSymphony.org. A free, pre-concert talk is offered one-hour before each performance at Borges Admission Center. Information about parking at Trinity College is available here.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra, led by Carolyn Kuan with organ soloist Christopher Houlihan during the 2019 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival
The Story of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford
This video celebrates the remarkable 25-year history of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford, established in Wethersfield, Connecticut and in residence at Trinity College, Hartford since 2016. The mini-documentary includes interviews with three former first-prize winners (Alcée Chriss, Monica Berney, and Alexander Pattavina), Sean Duffy (executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University), Dana Spicer (honorary board member of ASOFH and wife of co-founder David Spicer), and Vaughn Mauren (ASOFH former artistic director).
It also features a preview of our festival concert at Hartford’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, featuring Paul Jacobs and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan, conducting.
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way.”
