Classical Music - Orchestra - Traditional Music Events in La Crosse, United States

The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe warmly invites pilgrims and visitors to an organ recital by Dr. Catherine Rodland on Sunday, September 13, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Rodland is an acclaimed concert artist and pedagogue whose performances The American Organist has ..

The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe warmly invites pilgrims and visitors to a special organ recital by Scott Turkington, Director of Sacred Music at the Shrine, on Sunday, August 16 at 3:00 p.m. Mr. Turkington will perform a program of sacred organ music on the Shrin ..

Andrew Scanlon is an acclaimed organist and choral conductor currently serving as the Associate Organist and Choirmaster at the historic Church of the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts. A native of Methuen, Massachusetts, Scanlon has established an international reputa ..

Christopher Ganza is Choir Director-Organist at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, MN, and the Artistic Director for the Cathedral Music Series. Chris is also the Director of Choral Music at Saint Agnes School (Saint Paul, MN), where he conducts the choral ensembles for gr ..

Musician Bio Samuel Backman (b. 1988) is a composer, conductor, and virtuoso organist based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He serves as Director of Sacred Music at Holy Cross Catholic Church, in Northeast Minneapolis, where he chairs a multi-faceted music program ..

As the Church enters the solemn days leading to Holy Week, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe invites you to its annual Passion Sunday Concert, an hour of sacred music offered to aid prayerful meditation on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Music will include ..

Margaret-Mary Sauppe (nee Owens) earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and Master of Music (MM) in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY after studying with Nathan Laube, William Porter, Anne Laver, Edoardo Bellotti, and ..

About Benton Schmidt A multi-faceted church musician currently serving at Saint Paul's Newman Center in his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, where he is building a program that includes scholas, mixed choirs, and a children's choir, Benton Schmidt is in the process ..

La Grande Bande, an ensemble of professional orchestral and vocal specialists in the Baroque period, conducted by founder Michael Asmus, will present music written by Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, the music director of the Basílica Catedral Metropolitana in Puebla, Mexi ..

Passiontide Concert: Via crucis (1879) by Franz Liszt, for soloists, choir and organ. An intense musical setting of all fourteen Stations of the Way of the Cross, this late work will be paired with music of Fauré and Bruckner. Andrew McDonald, conductor; Scott Turkin ..

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music as Scott Turkington performs an organ recital in the stunning church of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. Scott is the Shrine's Director of Sacred Music. He is a gifted organist with an impressive repert ..

Andrew McDonald works as a freelance teacher, sacred musician, and performer in the La Crosse area. He has extensive experience as a frequent collaborative pianist for local soloists and ensembles, in addition to his solo performances. Andrew currently holds a pos ..

Leo Abbott is a graduate of the St. Paul Choir School, Cambridge, and the Chaloff School of Music, Boston. His teachers include Theodore Marier, George Faxon, Clarence Watters and Flor Peeters, in organ; Naji Hakim in improvisation, and Julius Chaloff in piano. He ho ..

Come hear renowned organist Dr. Horst Buchholz perform a free organ recital at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. You’ll hear such classic works as Toccata in D Minor by Dietrich Buxtehude, four Suites by J.S. Bach, Fantasia in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a ..

Enjoy music from many periods in history, played by brass quintet and organ, and sung by choir and soloists. Selections will be played in the style of a "prism concert", in that each piece is performed in immediate succession, emanating from different parts of the be ..

Henry Dangerfield began organ lessons with Brian Williams in 2019 as an 11-year-old recipient of a student scholarship from the Southeast Minnesota Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Since 2021, he has been studying with Raymond Johnston, Canon Musician at S ..

Men's Choral Concert: A Performance of Durufle's Messe "Cum Jubilo" Visit the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe on April 28, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm to hear a magnificent performance of Maurice Durufle's Messe "Cum Jubilo" by a men's choir. This choral masterpiece blends ..

Scott Turkington studied at the University of Minnesota, the Boston Conservatory and the Catholic University of America. His teachers have included Heinrich Fleischer, Phillip Steinhaus and George Faxon. Having spent the majority of his life in the Eastern U.S. worki ..

At the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be a concert of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima (The Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus) on Passion Sunday. This musical piece contemplates seven parts of Christ's crucified body - his pierced feet, ..

As part of the Riverland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists' Lenten series, an organ concert will be presented here at the Shrine that will feature two of the Shrine's own staff musicians, Andrew McDonald and Madeleine McDonald, joined by flutist Mackenzie Ta ..