The American Guild of Organists

Evansville Chapter

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. Our chapter provides and supports organ-related programs and events in the Tri-State area, and offers scholarships for organ lessons.


Mendelssohn Organ
              Sonatas graphic
A Spring Concert consisting of the six
Organ Sonatas of Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4pm Central Time, at First Presbyterian Church in Evansville, with Evansville A.G.O. members performing. The concert will feature all three pipe organs at First Presbyterian, the large C. B. Fisk Opus 98, our chapter's historic Giesecke organ, and the Brunzema portative or "Kisten Orgel".



First Presbyterian Church in Evansville will present a Recital by Emily Ballentine Erb, an organ student at Indiana University, May 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm Central Time.


Inside pic of St.
              Lucas UCC
Hymn Festival and Installation of A.G.O. Officers
Monday evening, May 6, 2024
St. Lucas U.C.C. in Evansville
Brief chapter meeting at 5:45pm Central Time. The service begins at 6pm. Dinner at Turoni's on N. Main St. after the service.



The Dufford Scholarship
The Evansville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists offers scholarships to encourage young students to take organ lessons. Scholarships generally subsidize half of an organ teacher’s fee. Please email us at evansvilleago@yahoo.com for more information.

RECENT EVENTS:
   2024 STEM
                        Fest AGO booth Pedals Pipes and
                        Pizza group gathered around Orgelkids organ.

Our chapter hosted a Pedals, Pipes & Pizza event in March 2024, and had a pipe organ display at the 2024 New Tech High School's STEM Fest.

Our chapter sponsored a concert by guest organist Wolff von Roos from Indianapolis on the A. E. Schlueter organ at Saints Mary and John Parish in Evansville on November 10, 2023.
The concert can be watched on Facebook.

We enjoyed an end-of-summer social on Monday, September 11, 2023, sharing some good food along with summer conference and travel reports, a discussion of future chapter events and a demonstration of our host's historic two-manual and pedal, Estey Style-T reed organ.

Several members of our chapter played
in the re-dedication of the historic Möller organ at First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Vernon, IN on Sunday afternoon, June 15, 2023.

Collage of 2022-2023 season events

Bach trio
                  sonata program performersClick 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).


Giesecke organMade 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.




Online Membership Renewal

Mail-in Membership Form

Positions and Instruments Available

Local Organs Stoplists & Descriptions

Follow our Chapter on Facebook

Our Chapter YouTube Page
with some previous program

National A.G.O. Website


The 2023-2024 Executive Committee
Nikolai Peek, Dean
Henry Maurer, Sub-dean
Kevin Ellerbusch, Secretary
Carolyn Adams, Treasurer
Sr. Darlene Boyd, Chaplain
Carol Grimm, Historian
Kathy Herdel, At-large
James Wells, At-large
Neal Biggers, At-large & Webmaster


Contact us at:
 evansvilleago@yahoo.com