Up and coming concert organist
Donald VerKuilen will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, at the
Cathedral of Saint Paul, 239 Summit Avenue. The concert is part of the
Cathedral’s Centennial - 2015 celebration. VerKuilen will perform Charles-Marie
Widor’s “Symphonie IV in F minor” along
with selections by Saint-Saens, Bach and Peeters on the recently-expanded Aeolian-Skinner organ, one of two historic
organs at the Cathedral of Saint Paul.  

VerKuilen has been a finalist in many prestigious
performance and hymn-playing competitions as well as an E. Power Biggs fellow
to the Organ Historical Society.  A
native of Appleton, Wisc., he began his studies with Frank Rippl and has
studied with Marie-Louise Langlais, Nathan Laube, Jonathan Moyer and others. In
2010 he performed at the International Festival of the Organ in Rome, Italy.
VerKuilen has studied organ performance under the tutelage of James David
Christie at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2014, he traveled to France to
study on some of that country’s finest organs. He serves as organist at Pulaski
Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark.

The concert is free and open to the public. Free-will donations
will benefit the Organ Maintenance Endowment Fund.