2025-26 Season

California State University, Fresno • Concert Hall

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Katelyn Emerson (organ)

Sunday, January 11, 2026 • 3:00PM

With her busy concertizing and teaching schedule throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, American concert organist Katelyn Emerson is known as both “a star of the first rank and an ambassador for the organ” (Orgue Canada). A PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge in England and recipient of a Master of Arts degree from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart in Germany, she has been a prizewinner of competitions on three continents. Notable performances include venues such as Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Hauptkirche St. Petri in Hamburg, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York.

Co-sponsored with the San Joaquin Valley Chapter, American Guild of Organists.

Concert Program

J.S. BACH
Praeludium in A minor, BWV 551
LÜBECK
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, LübWV 13
DISTLER
Organ Sonata, Op.18 No.2 (1939)
MUFFAT
Toccata settima from the Apparatus musico-organisticus
MENDELSSOHN
Sonata in A Major, Op.65
LAURIN
Sonata en Fa, Op.7 (1985)
WAMMES
Toccata Chromatica (2008)
W.A. MOZART
Fantasia in F minor, K.608