Epiphany Hymn Festival
2022-02-06 15:00 - 16:15 (America/Chicago) | MO, United States
“O Let the Harps Break Forth in Sound”
An Epiphany Hymn Festival
Celebrate our Lord Jesus Christ with us this Epiphany season!
Featuring Rev. Stephen Starke, the St. Louis Lutheran Chorale and the Concordia Seminary String Ensemble
Join us in person or via livestream at csl.edu/live.
The festival is part of the annual Concordia Seminary Concert Series.

Program

After Chapel Concert
2022-02-08 09:55 - 10:15 | MO, United States
Hannah Lanning, harp
Prelude
Anonymous
Gram’s Lullaby
N. Gustavson
Nocturne for Harp
Glinka
It Is Well With My Soul
H. Lanning
After Chapel Concerts are mini concerts featuring musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments. Recitals are held in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus directly following morning chapel, from 9:55 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. CT. Concerts are typically held in the chapel balcony.
The concert also is available via livestream at csl.edu/live.

After Chapel Concert
2022-03-15 09:55 - 10:15 | MO, United States
James Marriott, organ
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (BWV 582)
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
“Toccata” from Symphony No. 5
After Chapel Concerts are mini concerts featuring musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments. Recitals are held in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus directly following morning chapel, from 9:55 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. CT. Concerts are typically held in the chapel balcony.
The concert also is available via livestream at csl.edu/live.

Laudamus Spring Tour 2022
2022-03-19 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-20 08:00 - 21:00, 2022-03-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-03-20 15:00 - 16:30, 2022-03-21 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-04-03 16:00 - 17:30 | MO, United States
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Dr. James Marriott, the Seminary’s director of music arts, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.

After Chapel Concert
2022-04-05 09:55 - 10:15 | MO, United States
Charlea Fredstrom, violin
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Praeludium and Allegro
Ludwig von Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata in D (opus 12, no.1)
After Chapel Concerts are mini concerts featuring musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments. Recitals are held in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus directly following morning chapel, from 9:55 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. CT. Concerts are typically held in the chapel balcony.
The concert also is available via livestream at csl.edu/live.

Easter Hymn Festival
2022-04-24 15:00 - 16:15 | MO, United States
“Awake, My Heart, with Gladness”
A Service of Sacred Music for the Season of Easter
Featuring Laudamus, the St. Louis Lutheran Chorale, the Concordia Seminary String Ensemble and the Clarion Brass.
Join us in person or via livestream at csl.edu/live.
Program

The festival is part of the annual Concordia Seminary Concert Series.

Premier Concert: Laura Ellis, organ and carillon
2022-05-08 15:00 - 16:15 | MO, United States
Dr. Laura Ellis, organ and carillon
Enjoy a two-part organ and carillon performance at 3 p.m. (CDT) Sunday, May 8, by acclaimed artist Dr. Laura Ellis, professor and associate school director in the School of Music at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. The concert will begin in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus and will move to the grounds outside of Luther Tower. This premier concert is part of the annual Concordia Seminary Concert Series and is free and open to the public.
The annual Concordia Seminary Concert Series celebrates and proclaims our faith through the gift of music, featuring Seminary choirs and musicians, as well as visiting chorale groups and performers of the highest acclaim. The series includes Premier Events, a Hymn Festival Series, After Chapel Concerts and Summer Carillon Concerts.
Program

Summer Carillon Concert
2022-06-07 19:00 - 20:00 | MO, United States
About the carillonneur
Monika Kaźmierczak is a city carillonneur of Gdańsk, Poland. She is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, where she studied with Arie Abbenes and Bernard Winsemius. During her studies, she received several scholarships, including the Mayor of Gdansk’s scholarship for the best student in the department (2002) and the Huyghens scholarship from the Dutch government (2003-4). In 2007, thanks to a cultural scholarship from the City of Gdańsk, she took master classes from Geert D’Hollander in Belgium. Kaźmierczak teaches carillon and other subjects at the Music Academy in Gdansk. She is a laureate of several international carillon competitions and a finalist of the 2008 Queen Fabiola competition. As a performer, she is internationally in demand, playing concerts across Europe and the United States. She has collaborated on creative projects such as performing solo recitals for the acclaimed early music festival Actus Humanus in Gdańsk. Kaźmierczak is the founder and director of ongoing musical initiatives such as the Gdańsk Carillon Festival. Since 2012, she has held a Doctor of Arts degree, specialized in carillon playing. She also conducted the Gdansk Burghers’ Choir (Chór Mieszczan Gdańskich) for 11 years and was a president of the Polish Carillon Society. In 2021, she was awarded the highest cultural prize in her city: Splendor Gedanensis.
Featuring national and international carillonneurs, the annual Summer Carillon Concerts are held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in June. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy the music from the Main Quadrangle or on the Seminary grounds near Luther Statue. In the event of rain, guests may gather under the archways and tower on campus.
The carillon at Concordia Seminary is one of only 170 such instruments in North America. The 49 bells have been played atop the 120-foot Luther Tower since 1971, and are dedicated to all pastors who have served The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
Program

Summer Carillon Concert
2022-06-14 19:00 - 20:00 | MO, United States
About the carillonneur
Karel Keldermans is one of the preeminent carillonneurs in North America and a carillonneur for Concordia Seminary since 2000. He retired in 2012 from the position of full-time carillonneur for the Springfield, Ill., Park District, where he also served as the director of the renowned International Carillon Festival for 36 years. He has given carillon concerts around the world for the past 40 years. He has released six solo carillon CDs and one of carillon and guitar duets with Belgian guitarist Wim Brioen. For 12 years, Keldermans, along with his wife, Linda, co-owned American Carillon Music Editions, the largest publisher of new music for the carillon in the world. Together they wrote the book, Carillon: The Evolution of a Concert Instrument in North America (Springfield Park District, 1996), and in 1998, they were honored jointly with the Berkeley Medal for “distinguished service to the carillon art.” Keldermans was president of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America for five years and served on the Board of Directors for nine years. Keldermans studied carillon with Piet van den Broek at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, from which he graduated “with great distinction.” He also did postgraduate study with Peter Bakker at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort. He has a master’s degree in carillon performance and campanology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
Featuring national and international carillonneurs, the annual Summer Carillon Concerts are held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in June. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy the music from the Main Quadrangle or on the Seminary grounds near Luther Statue. In the event of rain, guests may gather under the archways and tower on campus.
The carillon at Concordia Seminary is one of only 170 such instruments in North America. The 49 bells have been played atop the 120-foot Luther Tower since 1971, and are dedicated to all pastors who have served The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
Program

Summer Carillon Concert
2022-06-21 19:00 - 20:00 | MO, United States
About the carillonneur
Bernard Winsemius studied carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort. After graduation, he was awarded the Prix d’ Excellence and was asked to serve as carillon instructor at the school. He is emeritus city carillonneur for both Haarlem and Amsterdam. In addition, Winsemius studied the organ at the Amsterdam Conservatory and has been organist of the historic organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam since 1981. His primary focus is Renaissance and Baroque music.
Featuring national and international carillonneurs, the annual Summer Carillon Concerts are held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in June. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy the music from the Main Quadrangle or on the Seminary grounds near Luther Statue. In the event of rain, guests may gather under the archways and tower on campus.
The carillon at Concordia Seminary is one of only 170 such instruments in North America. The 49 bells have been played atop the 120-foot Luther Tower since 1971, and are dedicated to all pastors who have served The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
Program

Summer Carillon Concert
2022-06-28 19:00 - 20:00 | MO, United States
About the carillonneur
Roy Kroezen, who was born in Enschede, the Netherlands, was appointed carillonneur of the Centralia Carillon in Centralia, Ill., in 2016. Since 2020, he has served as the organist at St. Mary Catholic Church in Centralia and the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. He studied organ at the Music Conservatory in Arnhem, and he studied carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and at the Royal Carillon School Jef Denijn and the Lemmens Institute, both in Belgium. He holds a master’s degree in carillon and in organ and choir conducting. In the Netherlands, he served as a municipal carillonneur in Zwolle, Hoogeveen, Arnhem and Huissen. For 22 years he served as organist in Hilversum at the Apostolic Society and Catholic churches in Hoogland, Amersfoort and Beesd. He was chairman of the Music Committee of the Netherlands Carillon Association (NKV). He teaches carillon and organ and arranges music for the carillon. He has played numerous organ and carillon recitals in the United States, Europe and the island of Curaçao. In 2002 he held six concerts a day for nine weeks on the island of Kyushu in Japan in Huis ten Bosch, a Dutch-style family park. Kroezen has won prizes at several international carillon contests. Together with the Zwolse Beiaard Stichting (Zwolle Carillon Foundation), he organized two contests for carillon duet and a carillon composition contest, held in Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Featuring national and international carillonneurs, the annual Summer Carillon Concerts are held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in June. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy the music from the Main Quadrangle or on the Seminary grounds near Luther Statue. In the event of rain, guests may gather under the archways and tower on campus.
The carillon at Concordia Seminary is one of only 170 such instruments in North America. The 49 bells have been played atop the 120-foot Luther Tower since 1971, and are dedicated to all pastors who have served The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
Program

After Chapel Concert
2022-10-25 09:55 - 10:15 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Program

After Chapel Concerts are mini concerts featuring musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments. Recitals are held in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus directly following morning chapel, from 9:55 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. CT. Concerts are typically held in the chapel balcony.

Choral Vespers service
2022-10-30 15:00 - 16:30 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Come, for All is Now Ready!: A Service of Sacred Music
Please join us for Choral Vespers featuring Laudamus and the St. Louis Lutheran Chorale in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. This is free and open to the public.
Program

Advent Evening Prayer
2022-11-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying: A Service of Evening Prayer for Advent
The service of hymns, readings and prayers will be held at 7 p.m. CT Tuesday, Nov. 29, in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. The service is free and open to the public. All are invited to join in-person or via live stream.
Program

After Chapel Concert
2022-12-06 09:55 - 10:15 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Featuring Jinah Knapp on the organ
Program
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659, 660, 661
J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
“Adagio” from Organ Symphony V, Op. 42, No. 1
C. M. Widor (1844–1937)
Variations on “Adeste Fideles”
M. Dupré (1886–1971) Edited by Rollin Smith
After Chapel Concerts are mini concerts featuring musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments. Recitals are held in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus directly following morning chapel, from 9:55 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. CT. Concerts are typically held in the chapel balcony.

After Chapel Concert
2023-02-28 09:35 - 10:15 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Join us for a rare Midwestern appearance from the engaging collegiate orchestra of Concordia University, Irvine, Calif. (CUI). The latest in its “Cathedral Concerts” series, this After Chapel Concert features CUI’s 57-member orchestra, professional repertoire, exceptional soloists and a program anchored in the theme of “contented peace.”
The orchestra will perform at 9:35 a.m. during morning chapel in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. Join us in person or via live stream. We hope you can join us for this exceptional offering of God’s gift of music!

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After Chapel Concert
2023-03-14 09:55 - 10:15 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Join us for a performance with Rebecca Vieker who will play Partita No. 2 in G Minor (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach on unaccompanied viola.
A performer and teacher in Des Moines, Iowa, Vieker has performed around the country with various symphonies and chamber ensembles. She has played with Des Moines Symphony, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony and Sioux City Symphony and also has shared the stage with artists Joshua Bell and Ben Folds. She is also currently working on her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Iowa.

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Trinity Lutheran Church (Springfield, IL), 220 S. Second St., Springfield, IL, 62701, United States
Evening prayer
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-19 08:00 - 09:00 | Trinity Lutheran Church (Springfield, IL), 220 S. Second St., Springfield, IL, 62701, United States
Worship service
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-20 12:20 - 13:00 | Walther Christian Academy, 900 Chicago Ave., Melrose Park, IL, 60160, United States
Daily Chapel
The public is invited to attend but will need to register at the school office.
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Bethany Lutheran Church (Naperville, IL), 1550 Modaff Road, Naperville, IL, 60565, United States
Concert
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-21 11:00 - 11:30 | Concordia University Chicago, 7400 Augusta St, River Forest, IL, 60305
Daily Chapel
Live stream

Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Luther Memorial Chapel, 3833 N. Maryland Ave., Shorewood, WI, 53211, United States
Vespers Service
Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more

Laudamus Spring Tour
2023-03-22 09:30 - 09:50 | Concordia University Wisconsin, 12800 N. Lakeshore Drive, Mequon, WI, 53097
Daily Chapel Service
Live stream

Laudamus is a select choir of seminarians preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Under the direction of Greg Gastler, interim choral director, the choir delights in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.
Each year, the choir schedules tours to LCMS schools, universities and churches throughout the country, singing an eclectic program representing the church’s song from many different genres.
Learn more
