Internationally Acclaimed Organist Dr. Kimberly Marshall to Perform 10th Anniversary Organ Concert on Tuesday, May 12th
In December of 2013, Emmanuel Episcopal Church signed a contract with C.B. Fisk, Inc. of Gloucester, Massachusetts for a new pipe organ. Founded by Charles Fisk, a Harvard graduate and nuclear physicist, C.B. Fisk, Inc., is recognized as one of the world’s leading builders of pipe organs. Since 1961, the craftsmen and women of C.B. Fisk, have built organs for churches, cathedrals, academic institutions, and concert halls across the world.
The commissioned pipe organ for Emmanuel, Opus 145, arrived on December 6, 2015. The initial installation was completed in March 2016, and the organ was dedicated in a series of organ recitals in the summer of 2016 by Dr. Homer A. Ferguson III, Dr. André Lash, Chase Loomer, and Stephen Gourley.
Financial constraints left the organ incomplete at its initial installation. In 2018, the 8’ Violin Diapason and 4’ Principal were added to the organ. In 2021, a gift from the DiNapoli family allowed for the addition of the 8’ Trompette, 8’ Salicional, 4’ Flute, and Plein Jeu. The remaining five stops were added in early 2024, completing the instrument for a total of 2,135 pipes across 35 stops, distributed over two manuals and pedal. World-renowned concert organist Stephen Tharp performed the gala concert in recognition of the completion of the organ.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the installation of the organ, North Carolina native, Dr. Kimberly Marshall, will present an organ concert on Tuesday, May 12th at 7 P.M. The concert is titled, “Te Deum: Organ Music for Praise and Contemplation.” The program will consist of selections that cover more than 500 years of organ repertoire, with selections by Dieterich Buxtehude, Arnolt Schlick, Margaret Sandresky, William Grant Still, Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles-Marie Widor, and Jeanne Demessieux.
Kimberly Marshall is known worldwide for her compelling presentations of organ music. She currently holds the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. From 2019-2022 she held the Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Her distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship has been recognized by the Royal College of Organists with their highest award. She is the principal editor for a publicly accessible online Encyclopedia of the Organ and for the Oxford Handbook of Organ Pedagogy and Performance.
Marshall has performed and presented her research at 13 national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She gave the final recital on the two large organs at Stanford’s Memorial Church for the San Francisco Convention in July 2024. In 2023 she gave recitals for the Oaxaca International Organ Festival, a teaching residency at Yale University, and performances at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and on the new symphonic organ at Göteborg Concert Hall.
In 2024, she was invited for a residency at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, a concert tour on the east coast of Italy, and as a member of the jury for the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal, performing a concert at the Chapelle du Grande Séminaire. She began 2025 with a recital on the prestigious concert series at St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, later performing in Buenos Aires, Belgium, and Sweden. Her engagements in 2026 include participation in an 8-day performance of John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP and adjudication for the Munich International Music Competition.
Performer, scholar, and educator, Kimberly Marshall is a committed advocate of the organ. She works to promote the instrument in both local and global communities. An authority on the organ’s rich history over the past 2000 years, she is devoted to continuing this tradition of artistic ingenuity into the next millennium.
For more information about Dr. Marshall, please visit:
http://www.kimberlymarshall.com/
For more information about the C.B. Fisk, Inc., Opus 145 pipe organ at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, please visit:
https://cbfisk.com/opus/opus-145/
https://cbfisk.com/case_studies/opus-145/
I hope you will take this special opportunity to hear our magnificent pipe organ in recital. Dr. Marhsall was my organ professor at Arizona State University, and under her tutelage, I earned my Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. She is my “musical mother,” and I hope you’ll come hear her as she walks us through an interesting and exciting program of music. I am the musician I am today because of her.