Trenney to perform at Wartburg College Bach’s Lunch in October

Tom Trenney will be the featured organist at Wartburg College’s Bach’s Lunch organ recital series Friday, Oct. 19.

The concert will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Wartburg Chapel. It will be preceded by a noon lunch and conversation with Trenney in the Chapel Commons.

Trenney, minister of music at First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Neb., is serving as visiting conductor of the Wartburg Choir and Ritterchor and visiting artistic director for Christmas with Wartburg during Lee Nelson’s sabbatical. At First-Plymouth, Trenney shepherds four adult choirs, accompanies the congregation on the Schoenstein organ, preaches sermons and guides the Abendmusik at First-Plymouth Concert Series.

In 2006, Trenney became the first organist awarded First Prize and Audience Prize in the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation; he has since served as a juror for the competition. He also has performed at Schermerhorn Symphony Hall in Nashville, Tenn.; Merrill Hall in Portland, Maine; Spreckels Organ Pavilion in San Diego; and Verizon Hall at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music.

His program will feature “Con moto maestoso” by Felix Mendelssohn, “Soliloquy” by David Conte and “Canon in b minor” by Robert Schumann. Bach’s “Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor” also will be performed.

Bach’s Lunch attendees are invited to bring a lunch or order one from Wartburg’s Den-Rittersaal by the Wednesday prior to the performance by contacting Marcia Haugen, music department office coordinator, at marcia.haugen@wartburg.edu or 319-352-8300.

The series will continue Nov. 9, Feb. 15, March 15 and April 12.