Hyde Park Church Organ Concert Series Brings Accomplished Organists to Cincinnati

The Hyde Park Church Organ Concert Series kicks off Sunday, November 2, with a performance by Richard Elliott, principal organist for the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. The series continues on February 22, 2026, with Karol Mossakowski, renowned organist at Saint-Suplice Church in Paris, and on April 19, 2026, the series welcomes Thomas Sheehan, cathedral organist and interim director of music at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC.

The popular performance series is free and open to the public. All performances start at 4 p.m. at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church is located at 1345 Grace Avenue.

On hand will be Executive Director and Resident Organist Brenda Portman and Director of Music Ministries Ben Owen. 

About Richard Elliot

As principal organist The Tabernacle Choir, Richard Elliot he has accompanied the choir on its weekly radio and TV broadcast, “Music and the Spoken Word,” for the past 34 years, as well as in general conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on dozens of CDs and DVDs, and in the choir’s annual Christmas concerts broadcast each year on PBS.

He also has a busy solo career, having given thousands of organ concerts on Temple Square as well as numerous performances on five continents. He appears on seven organ CDs and is a published composer and arranger of music for organ, choir and orchestra. Before becoming a Tabernacle organist in 1991, Dr. Elliott was an assistant professor of organ at Brigham Young University, and for several years he served as assistant organist at the Wanamaker Department Store (later Macy’s) in Philadelphia, home to the world’s largest fully functioning pipe organ. He holds a bachelor of Music degree in organ from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and MM and DMA degrees from the Eastman School of Music.

About the Casavant Organ

The organ at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church (Opus 3671) was built by Casavant Frères of Quebec, Canada. It was completed in 1990 and was first heard in a dedicatory recital given on September 25 of that year by organist and Director of Music, Mark Schaffer, who with his predecessors, Edwin Domb and Todd Wilson, assisted in the design of the instrument.

The organ underwent a significant console technology upgrade in 2015. The improvements offer the organist much greater versatility and ease of playing across the entire breadth of organ repertoire up to and including the 21^st century.

For more on the series, go to hydeparkchurch.org. 

Pictured: The Hyde Park Church Organ Concert Series opens with Richard Elliott on November 2. Elliot is the principal organist for The Tabernacle Choir and has accompanied the choir for 34 years. Provided