Upcoming Performances at Main Event Venues
Rieth Recital Series: Trio Caspar — Thu, Jan 01st
Trio Caspar is the first group to be named as the Colburn Conservatory’s inaugural Honors Chamber Music Ensemble, and mentored by Colburn faculty members Jonathan Brown (Cuarteto Casals), Yehuda Gilad, Fabio Bidini, and Martin Beaver (Tokyo String Quartet). Trio Caspar was awarded the Gold Medal, Lift Every Voice Prize and Horszowski Trio Prize for Piano Ensemble at the 2026 Fischoff Competition in the Senior String Division, as well as the Audience Award and 2nd Prize at the 2026 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition.
The ensemble is an innovative union of three individual voices. Founded in 2024 by clarinetist Andrea Caputo, violinist Jason Moon, and pianist Bogang Hwang, Trio Caspar aims to bring a fresh perspective of the highest standard to chamber works that are less frequently performed. The name pays homage to the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, whose exploration of the complexity of individualism inspires the trio’s distinctive sound. 2025-26 season highlights include a debut recital at the Colburn Conservatory and a performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time alongside cellist Gary Hoffman.
Trio Caspar has just recorded their debut album featuring works of Igor Stravinsky, Paul Schoenfeld, Libby Larsen and Robert Schumann, which will be released on the Delos recording label in the 2026-27 season.
Mary Catherine Levri is an associate professor of organ and church music in the Sacred Music program at the University of Notre Dame, where she has been on faculty since July 2027. She served as the director of music at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati from 2016-2025.
Dr. Levri has published a number of essays and articles on Catholic sacred music in the Humanum Review, the Adoremus Bulletin, and the Communio International Catholic Review. She served as the President of the Society for Catholic Liturgy from 2022-2024, and has worked as a musician in Catholic churches in Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Organ prelude begins at 7:15 pm.
Rieth Recital Series: Rhonda Sider Edgington, organ — Thu, Jan 01st
Organist Rhonda Sider Edgington is a creative and eclectic musician, with a diverse repertoire and wide range of musical interests. Often commended for her innovative programming, imaginative use of registrations, and exciting playing, Rhonda feels equally at home performing on a wide variety of instruments, from small 2 manual, 17th century organs in Germany to large 5 manual organs in the US.
Having spent seven years working and studying in Bremen, Germany (originally with a Fulbright scholarship to study with Prof. Harald Vogel), Rhonda has acquired an extensive repertoire, from Sweelinck and the music of 17th-century Northern Germany, through music of 19th- and 20th-century France, to the music of living composers. She has played recitals at venues across the US, on many notable European-influenced instruments such as the Richards, Fowkes at University of Tennessee/ Knoxville, the Pasi at St Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, the Taylor and Boody at Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton, VA, the Beckerath at St Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh, the Flentrop at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, and the Fritts at Arizona State University. She has also performed on many modern, eclectic instruments such as the Moller at West Point Cadet Chapel in NY, the Skinner at Fourth Presbyterian in Chicago, and the Goulding & Wood at Loyola University, as well as on many historic organs in Germany, such as the Schnitger in Norden, the Silbermann in Freiberg and the Hildebrandt in Naumburg. She has played at seven national conventions of the Organ Historical Society and three regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She has also been heard on the nationally syndicated radio program “Pipedreams”.
Before arriving in Bremen with a Fulbright scholarship in 2004, Rhonda was organist at the First United Church of Oak Park. The 88-rank Casavant there, especially well-suited to French repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, inspired her to focus those years on composers from Franck through Messiaen and record a CD of those works. (After hearing Rhonda play Dupré, one Parisian organist remarked “You don’t sound like a student of Harald Vogel!”)
An avid chamber musician, Rhonda has appeared in concerts playing piano, harpsichord, and organ in combinations ranging from piano trios and Lieder accompaniments, to organ and brass or organ and strings, and also as an early music continuo player with soloists and ensembles. She appears as solo organist and continuo player on two CD’s of early Christmas music with the Weser-Renaissance Ensemble, Bremen.
As a carillonneur, Rhonda was heard weekly at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Carillon, has played concerts in Chicago’s Botantical Gardens, and on the Naperville Millenium Carillon, and was heard at the national conventions of the Guild of Carillonneurs of American and Organ Historical Society.
In addition to solo recitals, teaching, church work, and chamber music, another of Edgington’s passions is dreaming up creative collaborative projects. In 2013, she performed concerts with the NYC-based trombone quartet Guidonian Hand, including their own arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D-minor for organ and trombone quartet. In 2014, she performed the complete Les Corps Glorieux of Messiaen at St. Augustine Cathedral in Kalamazoo with members of the Farrell Ballet Theatre performing an original work. 2015 brought the premiere of friend and colleague Steve Jenkin’s Sonata for Marimba and Organ in Holland, MI with David Hall, assistant principal percussionist with the Grand Rapids Symphony. In 2017, she performed a concert with calligrapher Tim Botts, creating original artwork inspired by live organ music. In the same year, she also performed the first of their “Battle of the organs”, with Hammond B3 master Tony Monaco, playing jazz-influenced classical music in contrast to his jazz standards. In 2018, she created a concert around the theme War and Peace, to perform in Germany, celebrating the centennial of the Armistice of WWI, which she also performed at West Point in NY. 2019-20 brought two big projects – a collaborating with Urban Garden Performing Arts to create a performance with dancers and actors around the book of Revelations for a local congregation (using Langlais’ Cinq Meditations sur l’Apocalypse), supported by a grant from the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship. She also partnered with world musicians for a series of concerts throughout Michigan for organ and percussion – Music of Japan. Years in the making, this project was supported by an AGO grant to commission a new piece by American composer Carson Cooman for organ, marimba, and Taiko drummers. It also featured the American premiere of the large-scale work for organ and Taiko drum, Fujin Raijin by Takihude Niimi . In 2021 she recorded a CD of Music of Today for Organ and Trumpet, with Dr. Brian Reichenbach, and their Great Lakes Duo performs regular tours each year.
Rhonda has worked as church musician since her student days, and has also served in a wide variety of denominations in the US, as well as worked as organist and choir director in two German churches. As organ teacher, Rhonda worked as Assistant Professor at Concordia University, River Forest, and Interim Professor of Organ at Houghton College, in New York state. Her studies have been, in Bremen with Harald Vogel, Hans-Ola Ericson, and Hans Davidsson, and in the States with Larry Smith, Marilyn Keiser, John Chappell Stowe, Edward Zimmerman, and her father.
An avid supporter of the American Guild of Organists, Rhonda was dean of the student chapter while doing her masters at Indiana University, and later on the Chicago AGO board, as well as working with the 2006 National Convention Planning Committee. She was dean of the Holland, MI AGO chapter from 2012 to 2021, and has also served on regional nominating committees for the AGO. She also planned and co-lead an educational tour for the European AGO of organs of Northern Germany.
After living in Bremen, Germany for seven years, she moved with her husband Mark, and children Isaac and Esther to Holland, Michigan. There Rhonda is Music Director and Organist at Hope Church (Reformed Church of America) and Organ Instructor at Calvin University in Grand Rapids. She worked as a staff accompanist at Hope College for 9 years, was accompanist for the Holland Chorale, and has accompanied students and professionals around the region. She performs concerts regularly in the US and Europe. When not making music, she enjoys riding her bike, reading and writing, eating fresh produce from the Holland Farmer’s Market, and writing a monthly column for the Holland Sentinel about music.
ECoSistema Spring Concert — Thu, Jan 01st
Young music students in the Elkhart County ECoSistema program at Goshen College and the Goshen Boys and Girls Club will present their annual spring concert in Sauder Concert Hall. ECoSistema leadership is provided by Hillary Harder, Isaac Fortoso, and Kent Dutchersmith.
Community School of the Arts Spring Choral Showcase — Thu, Jan 01st
Three youth choirs in the Community School of the Arts will present their spring choral showcase concert in Sauder Concert Hall. Performing are Rejoice (grades 3-5) and Sommo Voci (grades 9-12) directed by Kristin Kauffman, and Shout for Joy (grades 6-8) directed by Katie Thornthwaite.
GC Choirs -- EARTHTONES: Songs from Many Cultures — Thu, Jan 01st
The Goshen College Choirs will present their annual EARTHTONES concert of world choral music. Performing are the GC Chamber Choir and Vox Profundi, directed by Scott Hochstetler, and Voices of the Earth, directed by H. Roz Woll. The program will feature choral works from a wide variety of cultures and countries, and performed in foreign languages.
Goshen College Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert — Thu, Jan 01st
The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Douglass, will present its Spring Concert in Sauder Concert Hall.
Lavender Jazz Spring Concert — Thu, Jan 01st
Lavender Jazz, Goshen College’s big band, will present their spring concert in Sauder Concert Hall. The concert will feature full band performances as well as small combo jazz. Lavender Jazz is directed by Greg Smucker.
Goshen College Touring Choir Home Concert — Thu, Jan 01st
Reflection and Restoration: A Goshen College Musical Offering with Rosalyn Troiano, Philip Serna, and friends — Thu, Jan 01st
On Saturday, September 12 at 7:30 pm in Rieth Recital Hall, guest artists Phillip Serna, Viola da Gamba and Kevin Vaughn, Harpsichord and Organ and Goshen College Music Department Faculty and students will present Reflection and Restoration: A Goshen College Musical Offering, as the inaugural concert of the 2026-27 Rieth Recital Series.
This event is also a special fundraiser to restore the consort of four viola da gambas or viols; bowed, fretted, 6-stringed instruments used in Renaissance and Baroque music, that are in the instrument collection of Goshen College. A Pre-Concert Lecture at 7:00 pm in Rieth Recital Hall will discuss the provenance of these instruments, made by American luthiers, Harold and Arlene Westover.
The concert will feature Solomia Soroka, violin soloist with Phillip Serna and Kevin Vaughn, continuo and Scott Hochstetler, baritone, as soloist for J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 56, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen. A reception in the Music Center Lobby following the concert will provide an opportunity to meet the guest artists, view the consort of viols and continue the legacy of early music at Goshen College.
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE at 7:00 pm in Rieth Recital Hall
Verdi "Requiem" -- Elkhart County Symphony with Goshen College Choirs and Camerata Singers — Thu, Jan 01st
Student winners of the 2026-27 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition will perform their works in Sauder Concert Hall with the GC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Douglass. Performers are TBD.