Pipes at One

Man plays the organ at St. Paul's Chapel.

Pipes at One returns as part of Concerts at One on Tuesdays at 1pm at St. Paul's Chapel. See Trinity's schedule of live and streamed performances here and watch organ recitals below.

Pipes at One Videos

Pipes at One showcases leading organists and rising stars from around the country at St. Paul’s Chapel with its celebrated three-manual Noack organ. Trinity’s acclaimed organists—Avi Stein and Alcée Chriss III—perform as part of Pipes at One, along with the next generation of leading organists, students from prominent music conservatories and organ studios in New York and throughout the United States and Canada.
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Pipes at One: Emily Dawn Amos
MusicJune 3, 2025

Pipes at One: Emily Dawn Amos

Emily Dawn Amos is a prize-winning organist and recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She began studying organ at age eight. By age nine, she became the youngest musician ever admitted into a “Pipe Organ Encounter” — an outreach program run by the American Guild of Organists that provides instruction and exposure to notable organists and instruments. Amos currently studies with Ken Cowan at Rice University and will play a program of French music and orchestral transcriptions.  

 

Pipes at One Alex Leonardi
MusicMay 27, 2025

Pipes at One: Alex Leonardi

Currently the organ scholar at Trinity Church, Alex Leonardi is a master’s student at The Juilliard School. They received a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from the Curtis Institute of Music, where they held the Dr. Mi-Wha Lee Fellowship. As a young musician, they studied under Dr. Matthew Lewis in the pre-college division of Juilliard. A semifinalist in the American Guild of Organists National Improvisation Competition, Leonardi is an avid improviser, which they will demonstrate in today’s program.  

 

Pipes at One: Sarah Simko
MusicMay 20, 2025

Pipes at One: Sarah Simko

Hear the talents of Sarah Simko, associate organist at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit and winner of first prize in the Schoenstein Competition in the Art of Organ Accompaniment. She received a Graduate Award from the Presser Foundation to create a comprehensive set of recordings of organ music by living American female composers. During her time as a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, Simko worked with the Department of Mathematics to explore how the brain processes music, through detailed study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas.  

Pipes at One: Mina Marie Jelinek
MusicMay 13, 2025

Pipes at One: Mina Marie Jelinek

Today’s midday concert features a musician of remarkable technique and sensitivity. Organist Mina Marie Jelinek has worked at such high-profile venues as the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, and studied with teachers from the acclaimed Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the National Conservatory of Paris. Her program consists of virtuosic French works and pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach.  

MusicMay 6, 2025

Pipes at One: Angela Kraft Cross

Angela Kraft Cross is an internationally respected virtuoso organist, pianist, and composer — and also an eye surgeon, with dual degrees in physics and organ performance from Oberlin College. Her passion for sharing the joys of her instrument keeps her performing for a wide-ranging audience. Today’s program includes both her original pieces and those of other composers.    

Pipes at One: Clara Gerdes Bartz
MusicOctober 29, 2024

Pipes at One: Clara Gerdes Bartz

Young virtuoso Clara Gerdes Bartz grew up in North Carolina and recently graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she studied with renowned professor Martin Jean. The organist has already established herself as a performer of prodigious technique and control. She received the Baker Prize in Organ Performance (2020) and the Julia Sherman Award for Excellence in Organ Playing (2021) and is an adjunct instructor of organ at Rider University’s Westminster Choir College. 

 

Pipes at One: Nicole Keller
MusicOctober 22, 2024

Pipes at One: Nicole Keller

Organist Nicole Keller has performed in venues around the globe, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, and The Kazakh National University for the Arts. The assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan is also in demand as an instructor and guest lecturer, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Yale University. She is known for bringing a freshness to pieces old and new, especially Bach and such 20th-century American composers as Florence Price and Calvin Hampton. 

Pipes at One: Gail Archer
MusicOctober 15, 2024

Pipes at One: Gail Archer

Gail Archer is a professor at Barnard College and Columbia University and founder of Musforum, an international network for women organists. Her repertoire spans the 16th to 20th centuries, and she is one of the first American women to play Olivier Messiaen’s complete works, earning praise from The New York Times for mixing a “compelling authority” and “bracing physicality” with “a sense of vulnerability and awe.”

Pipes at One: Jennifer McPherson Mulhern
MusicOctober 8, 2024

Pipes at One: Jennifer McPherson Mulhern

Organist Jennifer McPherson Mulhern has earned acclaim for her interpretations of early music, including as a prize winner in the Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Organ Competition held in Amsterdam. The music director at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, she holds degrees from the College of the Holy Cross and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 

Pipes at One: Dr. Kristina Ziema Rizzotto
MusicOctober 1, 2024

Pipes at One: Dr. Kristina Ziema Rizzotto

Dr. Kristina Ziema Rizzotto is a sought-after organist, composer, and pianist who has performed her original sacred and secular works around the globe. She is the director of music at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis and was previously the organist at the Benedictine Abbey of Rio de Janeiro, built in 1590 and home to one of the oldest organs in South America. Her popular YouTube channel features more than 350+ organ, piano, and choral recordings.