Serving Southwest Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois! The mission of the American Guild of Organists is to foster a thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and inspire passion for the organ. The Evansville Chapter provides and supports organ-related programs and events for all ages in the Tri-State area, including our sponsorship of Pipedreams on WKU radio.
An Orgelkit is a small portable pipe organ that can be easily assembled by people of any age in less than an hour. The Evansville Chapter has been using borrowed Orgelkits in educational and performance settings since 2019. The chapter is now in the process of purchasing our own Orgelkit, and we would welcome donations to help support a continuation of this valuable educational and musical endeavor. Feel free to email us (address at bottom of page) for more information.
To learn more about the Orgelkit concept, history, construction and uses you can go to this website of Orgelkids USA, an organization which promotes the use of Orgelkits around the USA.
Click here for a YouTube video of our Festive Organ, Brass & Hymn Service with installation of chapter leaders on May 5, 2025 featuring the new Parsons organ at St. Benedict Cathedral in Evansville played by local organists and the Shepard Brass Quintet.
The Evansville Chapter offers scholarships to encourage young students interested in organ lessons. Typically, the student will have had some previous keyboard study, and the scholarship would subsidize half of an organ teacher’s fee. Please email us at evansvilleago@yahoo.com for more information.
Pipe Organ Encounters are summer events at various locations around the country that offer teenagers a rewarding week of learning about the pipe organ and its construction, lessons with experienced faculty, visits to hear and play outstanding instruments, and the chance to meet and interact with peers who share an interest in the organ. The Pipe Organ Encounter-Plus is a similar experience for adults offered some years. Click here to watch a FB reel about the POE experience. You can also click here for more information. You can contact your nearest AGO chapter for possible financial assistance to attend a POE.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR CHAPTER'S 2023-2024 SEASON:
- Our May installation service at St. Lucas UCC, our dean Nikolai Peek improvising: Facebook Video
- Pedals, Pipes & Pizza in March, Walcker organ demonstration by Nikolai Peek: Facebook Video
- Spring concert consisting of the six Organ Sonatas of Felix Mendelssohn performed by chapter members in April at First Presbyterian Church in Evansville: Video / Printed program
- Guest organist Wolff von Roos in concert at Saints Mary and John Parish in Evansville in November: Video
Click here to watch a YouTube video
of our April 2023 Bach Trio Sonata program.
Click here to watch a YouTube video
of our May 2022 installation service at Methodist Temple UMC
Other previous programs are available on our YouTube page (link below).
Made in Evansville! The Historic
Edmund
Giesecke Organ
Restored in Memory of Helen Skuggedal Reed
This historic organ was purchased by the
Evansville AGO Chapter. The chapter commissioned
Taylor and Boody Organbuilders to restore it. It can
be seen, heard and played at First Presbyterian
Church in Evansville. You can contact our chapter or
First Presbyterian for more information. Video of a chapter program
featuring our Giesecke organ.
For a stoplist and history of Evansville's municipal organ from 1919 to 2024, including some of the Evansville AGO Chapter's connections with the instrument, click here.
The Clifford Kincaid Memorial Fund
This fund helps with expenses for organ-related concerts, programs, events and projects. It was established in 2024 by the family of Clifford Kincaid who was a founding member of the Evansville AGO Chapter.