29th Annual
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford
September 26–27, 2026
All events are held at Trinity College.
Tickets are required for the Festival Concerts. Information about parking and accessibility at Trinity College is available here.
FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Music in a Gothic Space
Saturday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 27 at 2:30 p.m.
FEATURING
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Program
Parker Organ Concerto, Op. 55
Barber Essay No. 1, Op. 12
Barber Adagio for Strings
Barber Toccata festiva
PLUS a solo performance from the 2026 Young Professional Competition First-Prize Winner!
Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Christopher Houlihan, organ
Join us one hour before each concert for a FREE pre-concert talk in Borges Admissions Center featuring Maestro Kuan, Christopher Houlihan, and Sean Duffy, Executive Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University!
BIENNIAL YOUNG PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION
Final Round Recitals
Saturday, September 27 starting at 10:00 a.m.
In-person and livestreamed
Competition events are open to the public free of charge, no tickets required.
Following the competition, a light lunch is offered in the Chapel South Cloister where prizes will be announced.
The Story of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford
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, Monica Berney, and Alexander Pattavina), Sean Duffy (executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University), Dana Spicer (honorary board member of ASOFH and wife of co-founder David Spicer), and Vaughn Mauren (ASOFH former artistic director).
It also features a preview of our festival concert at Hartford’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, featuring Paul Jacobs and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan, conducting.
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way.”
