Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford

08/05/2024

🚨DEADLINE ALERT🚨Today is the deadline to submit an application for the 2024 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Young Professional Competition! Visit www.asofhartford.org for the full requirements and be sure to send in your application by 11:59PM for your chance to compete for almost $28,000 in prizes 💵

07/29/2024

There is just one week left to apply for this year’s Young Professional Competition! If you or someone you know is an aspiring organist who has finished their high school/secondary school degree and are age 26 or younger as of September 22, 2024, then visit www.asofhartford.org to complete your application by Monday, August 5! Don’t miss your chance to compete to win $15,000 and the opportunity to perform a solo work in the Festival Concerts on Saturday, September 21 and September 22!

06/29/2024

Music for Grand Organ & Orchestra On Sale Now -

The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford, in residence at Trinity College since 2016, sponsors one of North America’s top competitions for young organists. This year’s Festival Concert brings the Hartford Symphony back to Trinity College, Carolyn Kuan conducting, to perform again with inter...

10/12/2023

ASOF Hartford Is Pleased to Announce the 2023 Winners -

None of this would be possible without the generous support of Trinity College, the Greater Hartford Chapter of the American Guild of Organists; The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation; CT Humanities, with funding provided...

09/23/2023

Join us online for the High School Competition!

More information and program at www.asofhartford.org

09/23/2023

ASOF Hartford's Competition is at 10 AM, and the Festival Concert is at 7:30 PM -

For the first time since 2018, our Biennial High School Competition returns to Trinity College Chapel on Saturday, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m., when three very talented young organists from across the United States will compete for over $14,000 in prize money. This year’s esteemed jury is compris...

09/22/2023

Bruce Xu's Recital is Tonight at 7:30 -

Bruce Xu is not your typical organist. He discovered the grand pipe organ at age 9 in his local Methodist church and has since fallen in love with its majestic sound and expressive possibilities. He began his musical journey with Jimrae Lenser, then continued his studies with Craig Williams at West....

09/20/2023

The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival is This Weekend! -

Our Festival Concert celebrates the organ and organ music in a variety of ways—choirs, brass, and percussion coalesce and converse in a program of repertoire that spans centuries, countries, and languages. The program was created through a collaboration of ASOF Hartford’s Artistic Director Chris...

09/17/2023

One Week Away - the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival! -

Our mission is to encourage and inspire excellence in organ performance by emerging artists at both the high-school and young professional levels.

09/10/2023

The 2023 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival is Only Two Weeks Away! -

Our mission is to encourage and inspire excellence in organ performance by emerging artists at both the high-school and young professional levels.

08/27/2023

26th Annual Festival and Competition: September 22 - 23 -

Our mission is to encourage and inspire excellence in organ performance by emerging artists at both the high-school and young professional levels.

08/17/2023

We are happy to announce the finalists of the 2023 High School Division Competition: Daniel Colaner, Henry Dangerfield, and Sarah Ku. Click the photos to learn more about these talented young musicians. They will each perform at Trinity College on Saturday, September 23 starting at 10:00 a.m. The competition will be live-streamed from our website, where you are welcome to read more about this year's exciting festival.

07/07/2023

Applications for this year's high school division competition are due August 1. More information is at www.asofhartford.org. We look forward to hearing your recordings!

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, Mon...

03/24/2023

Announcing the 26th Annual Festival & the Biennial High School Competition, Saturday, September 23, 2023. More information is available on our website.

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, Mon...

10/22/2022

Congratulations to our three finalists! The annual David Spicer Hymn Playing competition is taking place in-person now. All prize winners will be announced this evening during intermission at the Organ Extravaganza! concert. Tickets are still available at at www.bushnell.org or at the box office.

10/22/2022

Aletheia Teague's recital is about to begin. Tune-in for the 2022 Young Professional Competition.

10/22/2022

Next up is Bruce Xu. Join us online for the 2022 Young Professional Division .

10/22/2022

About to start: Theodore Cheng performs the first recital in this year's Young Professional Division. Watch the livestream here!

10/21/2022

Tomorrow is our grand "Organ Extravaganza" concert - just a few hours after the exciting Young Professional Competition in the morning at Trinity Chapel.

Get your tickets now at The Bushnell for our 4:00 p.m. concert, with a 3:00 pre-concert talk with Carolyn Kuan and Paul Jacobs.
https://bushnell.org/shows-concerts/asof-hartford-organ-extravaganza

Here's a photo taken last night at the first rehearsal with Paul Jacobs and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan conducting.

10/21/2022

Tune in tomorrow for the Young Professional Competition from Trinity College. All recitals are live-streamed from our YouTube channel at 10:00am, 11:00am, and 12:45pm: https://tinyurl.com/ASOFH22playlist

10/18/2022

Paul Jacobs, internationally-renowned organist and Chair of the Organ Department at The Juilliard School, is our featured soloist at our Organ Extravaganza this Saturday at 4:00 at The Bushnell. Pre-concert talk with Carolyn Kuan and Paul Jacobs at 3:00.

Listen to Paul talk about the concert, the Bushnell's Austin organ, and the two works he'll be performing: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor, and Michael Daugherty's "Once Upon a Castle" - a four-movement symphony concertante for organ and full symphony, based on the life of William Randolph Hearst and his castle in San Simeon, California, as depicted in Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."

10/14/2022

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10/14/2022

The first half of our “Organ Extravaganza” concert on October 22nd at 4 PM at The Bushnell presents Camille Saint-Saëns’ beloved Third Symphony, commonly known as the Organ Symphony. Saint-Saëns’ considered it his final achievement in the symphony form. "I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again."

Listen to our first organ soloist, Alexander Pattavina, winner of the 2019 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Competition for Young Professionals, as he describes the wonderful organ he’ll be playing during the performance of the symphony.

Alexander Pattavina, the 2019 1st prize winner of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford's Young Professional Competition, talks about this year's “Or...

10/13/2022

Our "Organ Extravaganza" concert is fast approaching - Saturday, October 22nd at 4:00 p.m. Listen to our Artistic Director, Christopher Houlihan, give you a brief preview of what will be a truly amazing concert! And get your tickets at https://bushnell.org/shows-concerts/asof-hartford-organ-extravaganza .

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08/26/2022

We are very happy to share this video celebrating and documenting the past 25 years of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford, including interviews with past winners Alcée Chriss, Monica Berney, and Alex Pattavina. Stay tuned to the very end to learn more about this fall's exciting concert at The Bushnell featuring Paul Jacobs and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra!

Video by: Kent GoldenGolden Multimediahttps://goldenmultimedia.com/This video celebrates the remarkable 25-year history of The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festiv...

04/13/2022

Announcing the 25th Annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford and the 2022 Young Professional Division Competition with over $28,000 of prizes to be awarded. The competition takes place at Trinity College, Hartford, on Saturday, October 22. Jurors for the final round are Alcée Chriss, Isabelle Demers, and Thomas Murray. Applications are now open and are due August 15, 2022. For more information and to apply, visit

The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford is pleased to announce the 2022 young professional division competition, with over $28,000 of prizes to be awarded. The competition takes place at Trinity College, Hartford, on Saturday, October 22. Jurors for the final round are Alcée Chriss III, Isabe...

10/06/2021

Big congratulations to David Kraft of Rochester, New York, on winning the $7,500 First Prize in this year's ASOFH High School Division Competition. If you haven't already, listen to the competition performances here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik4aTFVjQ9s&t=1s

Daniel Colaner (Akron, Ohio) earned the $3,500 Second Prize as well as the $1,500 David Spicer Hymn Playing Prize.

Mélodie Michel (Paris, France) earned the $1,750 Third Prize.

We are incredibly proud of these three exceptional finalists and wish to express another round of thanks to them for sharing their talent and artistry with us all.

09/23/2021

Did you know that one of our 2021 finalists was featured on "From The Top"? Follow the link and hear Daniel Colaner perform "Jupiter" from The Planets by Gustav Holst. And make sure you tune in on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. EST to watch the premiere of our 2021 High School Division Competition. Here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik4aTFVjQ9s

Daniel Colaner, organ Hometown: Akron, OhioShare Meet DanielDaniel appeared on Show 377 in Morristown, New Jersey.Daniel Colaner (organ), 14, lives in Akron, Ohio and is a recipient of From the Top’s Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. He is a pediatric cancer survivor who began his study of musi...

09/22/2021

Join us this Saturday at 10:00 A.M. EST for the premiere of the 24th Annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival High School Division Competition! Young organists Daniel Colaner, David Kraft and Mélodie Michel compete for the $7,500 First Prize!

The 24th Annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford features the High School Division competition. Competition finalists Daniel Colaner, David Kraft an...