Dr. Steve Wendt Organ Recital

Organ Recital Friday, September 8 6:00pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church will host a free organ recital by Dr. Steven Wente a Distinguished Professor of Music
from Concordia Chicago. 

The program will feature musical numbers by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Walther, and classic hymns. This recital is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served afterward.

Dr. Steven Wente
Steven Wente is a distinguished professor of music emeritus at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, where he continues to teach applied organ and play in chapel. He also serves as cantor (music director) at First Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, Chicago.

He holds bachelor and masters degrees from Concordia, River Forest, and the doctor of music degree in organ performance from Northwestern University. His organ teachers have included David J. Wilson, Herbert Gotsch, Robert Lodine, Richard Enright, and Wolfgang Rübsam. He has pursued further study through summer seminars in France, Switzerland, and Canada.

Steven keeps an active schedule as a teacher, workshop leader, and organ recitalist. He currently serves on the board for the Fox Valley (IL) Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and has been a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) since its inception in 1986. He has presented at the Institutes on Liturgy, Preaching, and Church Music (LCMS) and at conferences of the ALCM. He has performed in numerous locations throughout the United States, and in the Luther and Bach areas of Germany. As an active organist and church musician, he has composed hymn preludes for the recent Concordia Hymn Prelude Library as well as other publications.