Greetings Friends and Colleagues! 
I’m hoping you are refreshed and rested from all the Christmas services, concerts, and festivities. Now onto Lent!
This January’s Seattle AGO event brought a visit to a Hauptwerk set-up at 
David & Jan Toy’s home in Marysville. Participants were able to hear organs 
from around the world via this software and peruse the chapter’s boxes of 
scores. Thank you to the Toy’s for this interesting and informative presentation and opening their home to us.

The OrgelKids Kit is in use and in demand! Reservations are available through David Lepse at: davidlepse62@yahoo.com. It is wonderful that it has sparked such interest, from the UW to schools and churches. It is fantastic to see it in action with young people.

 

February Chapter Event 
Looking ahead, the next sponsored event by the Seattle AGO chapter is Friday, February 27, 7:30 P.M. at Saint James Cathedral, “Organ Concert: Feats for the Feet,” Jan Kraybill, Organist. AGO members identify yourselves at 
the door, your admission fee is covered by the chapter, guests of member are not covered. 

 

The March 13-14 event is sponsored by the Seattle & Tacoma AGO chapters, is for pianists and organists with a recital and workshop by Barbara ListerSink. Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink is an internationally renowned pianist, pedagogue, and global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. She has 
taught thousands of keyboardists to remove technical obstacles to their musical development, recover from playing-related injuries, and become conscious 
of good biomechanics for injury prevention.
To enable accessibility to members of both chapters, both the concert (Friday, 
March 13 at 7 pm), and workshop (Saturday, March 14, 9 am-4 pm) will take place 
in the Chapel at Wesley Homes in Des Moines. Wesley Homes has both a wonderful, newly renovated Steinway, where the concert will take place, and an organ built by Paul Fritts, where the workshop will take place. Dr. Lister-Sink's Friday night concert, featuring beloved piano works by Chopin, Debussy, 
Rachmaninoff and Percy Grainger will demonstrate how developing an efficient, injury-preventative technique is always done in service of musical artistry. Following the concert will be a reception. Saturday's workshop will have two parts. First, from 9 am-12:00 pm, Dr. Lister-Sink will give a presentation and jumpstart participants' kinesthetic awareness, guiding participants to use muscles efficiently, optimally align their skeleton, and avoid accumulation of 
tension while playing to improve their comfort at the console. The workshop will focus on 
self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-empowerment. There will be a lunch break from 12:00-1:30 pm, where participants are welcome to enjoy a catered lunch ($10). Then, 
from 1:30 pm-4:00 pm, Dr. Lister-Sink will lead a masterclass, where AGO members can 
get on the bench for a hands-on opportunity to discover places they might be holding unnecessary tension, impeding their ease of motion and comfort level at the console. A used-music exchange will happen during downtime on Saturday.

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Register by February 25! To register for the workshop, pay for the optional catered lunch, 
and volunteer to play in the masterclass, please visit https://tacomaago.org/barbara-listersink-injury-preventative-keyboard-technique-workshop-and-lunch/ There is a $25 non-member registration fee that will be taken at registration. Both members and non-members are welcome to register for the event.

Many may wish to attend a concert Sunday, April 19 at 7 pm. Nathan Laube will perform 
on the Noack organ of First Lutheran Church of West Seattle 4105 California Ave SW Seattle 98116. This concert is in honor of the 50th anniversary of the installation of this Noack 
organ and to honor the legacy of our own Andrew King who served as organist/cantor at this church for 50 years and chapter auditor. Nathan Laube is Assistant Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music and an internationally renowned recitalist.

Saturday, May 16 Masterclass featuring Renée Louprette, the St. Mark's 2026 Bach recitalist is co-sponsored by the UW and Seattle AGO. The class is from 10:00 am-12:00pm on the Flentrop at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle.

 

Stay warm and healthy and we hope to see you at an event or two.

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Fondly, Lucy Kay Osborne, Dean

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