Pinnacle Concert Series

08/09/2024

We're excited to announce our upcoming 2024-25 season. Flip through our brochure and add these dates to your calendar.

Full schedule of concerts and educational workshops for the 2024-25 season.

06/21/2024

Join us this Sunday at 3 pm for the final recital Benjamin Sidoti, the 2023-2024 Pinnacle Organ Scholar. Don’t miss the opportunity to see the next generation of organists in action, and stay for the reception afterward. This is a FREE concert, all are welcome! Please join us! Follow the link for more info: https://www.pinnaclepres.org/events/pinnacle-concerts-series-benjamin-sidoti

04/17/2024

The Pinnacle Concert Series and Pinnacle Presbyterian Church presents Hózhó - Beauty and Balance with Crista Miller. Join us this Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm in the Sanctuary for this FREE concert!

Miller, director of music at the Co-Cathedral in Houston, TX, will deliver a program inspired by the Native American motifs found in the carvings of the Richards & Fowkes organ at Pinnacle. You will hear works by J.S. Bach, Florence Price, Christa Rakich, Brenda Portman, Louis Ballard, Conor Chee, G. Böhm, Jessica French, and Naji Hakim.

04/17/2024

Join us this Sunday 4/21 at 3 pm!!! Admission is FREE.
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
25150 N Pima Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85255

The Pinnacle Concert Series presents Hózhó - Beauty and Balance with Crista Miller. Join us this Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm in the Sanctuary for this FREE concert!

Miller will deliver a program inspired by the Native American motifs found in the carvings of the Richards & Fowkes organ at Pinnacle. Follow the link for more details: www.pinnaclepres.org/events/pinnacle-concerts-series-hozho

03/17/2024

We had a lovely concert with Phoenix Boys Choir and Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church and Pinnacle Concert Series !! A great variety of ensembles and selections, and a very appreciative audience!

02/19/2024

We had a wonderfully attentive and appreciative audience at our concert which made for a splendid afternoon yesterday! Thank you all for coming and listening to the music and stories of Clara Schumann, F***y Mendelssohn and Rachel Knobler ❤️❤️❤️

12/21/2023

In case you missed it or would love to watch it again... please enjoy highlights from our beautiful Celebration of Christmas Concert!

This is "Celebration of Christmas 2023" by Pinnacle Presbyterian Church on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12/13/2023

Beautiful memories of our Celebration of Christmas concerts from last weekend. Pics taken by the one and only Elaine Campbell 📸

12/03/2023

11/12/2023

“Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables
“This Is My Song” to Sibelius’ Finlandia
“Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Kamen’s “Band of Brothers”
and many more captivating selections delivered by 16-member brass ensemble, 35-member choir, percussionists, solo singers, pianist, organists. Unforgettable afternoon which will honor the US Veterans in word and song. It’s FREE. Join us this Sunday Nov 12 @ 3 pm
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church

10/16/2023

Pinnacle Sanctuary
FREE ADMISSION

Prepare to be entertained and seriously scared! Our annual Phantom of the Organ offering is full of captivating and spooky attractions this year! A fun night of frightening music that highlights the Richards & Fowkes organ, the Phantoms (aka Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, Jonathan Lang, and Benjamin Sidoti), the phenomenally chilling jazz band House of Stairs, and fabulously mysterious Pinnacle soloists: Schae Chapman, Thomas Strawser and Brady Larson! Dress up, come with your family to Trunk or Treat at 6:15 pm in the circle drive, and stay for the engaging concert with music from famous scary movies, broadway shows and the immortal Bach’s Toccata in D minor!

09/11/2023

We had a full house for our first concert of the 25th season! What a treat to hear moving music in the gorgeous Pinnacle Chapel 😍 Join us for more FREE concerts this season. You can find more info on our website: pinnacleconcerts.com

08/25/2023

We are delighted to celebrate our twenty-fifth season of the Pinnacle Concert Series with a great mix of old and new, classical and contemporary, entertaining and educational. Our series catalog will be mailed soon, but in the meantime, please take a sneak peek at the full schedule.

Celebrating 25 seasons of outstanding musical performances.

05/14/2023

Lou Harrison orchestrated his Organ Concerto with a heavy constellation of traditional and homemade percussion instruments, including large plumber’s pipes and sawed off oxygen tanks. This rarely performed work is a unique synthesis of Indonesian gamelans, European organs, Ancient Greek scales, and an adventurous West Coast spirit. It will be performed alongside other works for percussion and organ by Steve Reich, Jacob Adler, Raven Chacon, Johanna Beyer, and Jan Welmers.

SATURDAY, May 20 @ 7 pm

Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
25150 N Pima Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85255

FREE ADMISSION

Pinnacle Concert Series
Crossing 32nd Street Ensemble
Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler

04/07/2023

TONIGHT @ 7 pm
Let the gentleness and ethereal beauty of this masterpiece help you navigate the breadth of emotions during the Holy Week. Rutter’s Requiem is best experienced in the perfectly suited acoustics of a church - ideal for choirs, soloists, organ, instrumentalists, and deep meditation. You will not regret the experience and transformation that in person and undistracted listening to sacred live music offers.
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
25150 N Pima Rd | Scottsdale, AZ 85255
April 7 @ 7 PM
Admission FREE

Join us this evening for our Good Friday Service.

03/21/2023

A prizewinner of international competitions and sought-after performer, Katelyn Emerson, has been described as “a star of the first rank, and an ambassador for the organ”. Featuring Franz Liszt’s monumental Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam,” her program on the stunning Richards and Fowkes organ will center on two cornerstones of sacred and secular music history: song and dance.
Sunday, March 26 @ 3 pm
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
25150 N Pima Rd | Scottsdale, AZ 85255
Admission FREE

01/12/2023

This Monday | Jan 16 | 7 pm
“But let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24) provides the basis of the musical exploration for how Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy influenced and “flooded” the world. Presented by the choirs of Princeton Theological Seminary and Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, this evening will commemorate the work of Dr. King.
Admission FREE - address below

12/30/2022

Enjoy the highlights of the Celebration of Christmas 2022! Our favorite excerpts from both concerts can be found in the video below ⬇️
We wish you a restful remainder of the Christmas season, and see you at our upcoming concerts in January!

This is "CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS.mp4" by Pinnacle Presbyterian Church on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12/14/2022

Enjoy the memories of our Celebration of Christmas 2022!
These gorgeous photos were taken by Elaine Campbell 😍

11/24/2022

CELEBRATION of CHRISTMAS offers a roller-coaster program of both monumental and intimate holiday music. A favorite tradition among many, this event features some of the greatest seasonal selections. Delivered by the combined forces of the Pinnacle Chancel Choir, Phoenix Brass Collective, Pinnacle Pealers Handbell Ensemble, Pinnacle soloists and guests, it promises to be unforgettable!
Choose your preferred time - 4 PM or 7 PM - and make sure to come early to get your favorite seat. It’s a FREE concert and the seating is on the ‘first come-first served’ basis.
Address: Pinnacle Presbyterian Church

11/08/2022

There is something powerful about the way music and poetry force us to stop and pay attention. Perhaps it’s the way they help us feel and express what otherwise would be hard to feel and express. Whatever the reason, join us this Friday Nov 11 at 7 pm at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church as we offer space to reflect and pay honor to the Veterans.
with Phoenix Brass Collective

11/07/2022

Phoenix Chorale was such a treat yesterday! Their performance was strong, crisp, glorious and moving all at the same time.
They are the perfect match for the acoustics and brilliant space of Pinnacle Presbyterian Church. They are coming back to Pinnacle two more times this season. Don’t miss it! It’s an absolute bliss!