Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Heather Hinton is Organist and Assistant Director of Music and Fine Arts at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana and Instructor of Organ at Butler University. She won first prize in the 1996 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance of the American Guild of Organists. She earned the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees, as well as a Performers Certificate, at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with David Higgs, Russell Saunders, and Arthur Haas (harpsichord). Her program includes selections from Schumann’s Canon in B Minor, Sonata No. 8, and Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur.

The great Aeolian-Skinner organ at Grace Cathedral is one of the world’s finest and most famous instruments of its kind. Its 7,347 pipes comprise a massive orchestral sound that perfectly complements the gothic-style cathedral’s natural acoustics among soaring arches and stained glass.

This concert is one in Grace Cathedral’s series of free organ concerts on most Sundays from September to June, the nation’s premiere series in a major venue on a world-class organ. Choral Evensong is sung prior to every organ recital at 3:00 p.m.

Free