November 9: Organ Recital – Visions of Heaven and Earth
Location: Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology
Sunday, November 9
Organ Recital • 7 p.m.
Guest Organist: Dr. Kimberly Marshall
Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ, Arizona State University
Mount St. Mary’s Latin Schola
Pieces by J.S. Bach, Messiaen, Sandresky and more
Join Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology for an organ recital played by the eminent organist and scholar Dr. Kimberly Marshall, Professor of Organ at Arizona State University. The recital will take place on Sunday, November 9 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great on the monumental Pasi Opus 29 organ. The program features works by J.S. Bach, Margaret Sandresky, Jehan Alain, Robert Bates, and more, with the Mount St. Mary’s Latin Schola singing Gregorian chant in alternation with the organ.
Admission is free and open to the public.
About Dr. Kimberly Marshall
Kimberly Marshall is known worldwide for her compelling presentations of organ music. She currently holds the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. From 2019–2022 she held the Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship at the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. Her distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship was recognized by the Royal College of Organists in 2022 with their highest award. She is an accomplished teacher, giving master classes internationally and teaching an annual summer organ academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Marshall has performed and presented her research at 12 national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She gave the final recital on the two large organs at Stanford’s Memorial Church for the San Francisco Convention in July 2024. In 2023, she gave recitals for the Oaxaca International Organ Festival, a teaching residency at Yale University, and performances at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and on the new symphonic organ at Göteborg Concert Hall (Sweden). In 2024, she was invited for a residency at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, a concert tour on the east coast of Italy, and, as a member of the jury for the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal, performed a concert at the Chapelle du Grande Séminaire. She began 2025 with a recital on the prestigious concert series at St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, later performing also in Buenos Aires, Belgium, and Sweden.
Performer, scholar, and educator, Kimberly Marshall is a committed advocate of the organ. She works to promote the instrument in both local and global communities. An authority on the organ’s rich history over the past 2000 years, she is devoted to continuing this tradition of artistic ingenuity into the next millennium.