Wednesday, May 1 at 12:15 p.m.
Join us as our Minister of Music, Joshua Stafford, offers the final Wednesday Meditation of our 2023-2024 Season on the Beckerath organ of First Congregational Church in Columbus.

Wednesday, March 6, at 12:15 p.m.
Daniel Colaner 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. Since then, he has been featured on PBS with the American Pops Orchestra in One Voice: The Songs We Share, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, NPR’s From the Top (Show #377), and BBC’s World Service Newsday. At the age of 16, he was recognized in The Diapason magazine’s “20 under 30” Class of 2021. He received the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award in 2020 and was named a 2023 National YoungArts Finalist (Winner) in Organ/Classical Music. Most recently, he was the 1st Prize and Audience Prize winner at the 2023 Arthur Poister Organ Competition and the L. Cameron Johnson Organ Competition. He performed Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante last spring as the winner of the 2023 Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition and enjoyed playing the great organs of Paris this past summer as an Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship winner. Daniel is the Organ Scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and a private organ student of David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music.

Wednesday, February 7, at 12:15 p.m.

Join us for a brief, free Wednesday Meditation at First Congregational Church on February 7 at 12:15 featuring Dr. Qin Ying Tan playing our beautiful Bechtel harpsichord.

Lauded by Cleveland Classical as "an excellent soloist, a compelling performer who is equally comfortable handling long strings of notes... and singing through emotive melodies with her instrument,” Dr. Qin Ying Tan currently serves as harpsichord faculty at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. She also works at the Historical Performance Practice Program at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Tan has appeared in concerts in Singapore, Shanghai, Germany, France, and has performed extensively across the United States of America. This season sees engagements with Hudson Historical Society and Library, City Music, the Historically-Informed Performance Practice Department at Case Western Reserve University, and the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival. In addition to her commitment to early repertoire, Tan regularly presents new music to her audiences and has premiered several pieces, most notable Cenk Ergun's sound installation piece, "Fomare" at the Cleveland Museum of Art and “Are You You” by Michi Wiancko with City Music. Her passion for sharing historical music has led her to lead dynamic workshops on baroque dance and historical keyboards in Southeast Asia where accessibility to period music is rare.

Wednesday, December 6 at 12:15 p.m.
Organist Joshua Stafford offers a program of organ music for Advent.

Wednesday, November 1 at 12:15 p.m.
William Rehwinkle, organ
Join us for a 45-minute program played on the organs of First Church by William Rehwinkel, an organ student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At the Oberlin Conservatory, William studies with Dr. Jonathan Moyer. William's organ education began with lessons by Angela Kraft Cross, and from 2014-2019 he studied with Mark A. Miller in Summit, NJ. From 2016-2019 William was the Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Summit, NJ.

Wednesday, October 4 at 12:15 p.m.
Jon Tyillian, organist