26th Annual
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford
September 22–23, 2023
All events are at Trinity College and are open to the public free of charge, no tickets required. Information on parking and accessibility is available here.
Click here to download this year’s Festival program.
BRUCE XU, ORGAN RECITAL
Friday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m.
2022 ASOFH Young Professional First-Prize and Audience-Prize Winner
Bruce Xu is not your typical organist. He discovered the grand pipe organ at age 9 in his local church and has since fallen in love with its majestic sound and expressive possibilities. In 2022, Bruce wowed both the ASOFH jury and audience, winning first-prize in the Young Professional competition and, by vote of the audience, the audience prize.
HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION COMPETITION
Saturday, September 23 starting at 10:00 a.m.
In-person and live-streamed at this link.
Daniel Colaner (Ohio)
10:00 a.m.
First Prize
...captured international media attention at the age of 12 with his same-day performances at Carnegie Hall on piano and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on organ.
Sarah Ku (New York)
10:45 a.m.
Second Prize
...currently a 10th-grade student at Groton School, Massachusetts... awarded the Britton Organ Scholarship to study at Clifton College in Bristol, England.
Henry Dangerfield (Minnesota)
11:30 a.m.
Third Prize, Audience Prize,
and David Spicer Hymn Playing Award
... began organ study in 2019 at the age of eleven, receiving a student scholarship from the Southeast Minnesota Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
