Musforum in Phoenix
May 12-13, 2025

Hotel Booking

We have partnered with Sonesta Select Tempe Downtown Hotel for this year’s conference. Please click here to make a reservation with our conference group for May 11-13.

Event Program (tentative)

Guests arrive on Sunday evening, May 11 or Monday morning May 12

Monday, May 12

Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, Scottsdale, Richards-Fowkes organ

1:30 pm Keynote address “Two Millennia of Women playing the Organ”
Kimberly Marshall

2:15 Joy-Leilani Gurbitt, “Women organists in France” (Tentative title)

3:00 Susan Jane Matthews (Director of Music, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame, CA)
Lecture-recital on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr

4:00 Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, Director of Music, Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
Lecture-recital presenting the organ music of Eastern European women composers

Dinner nearby

7:00. Evening concert at Pinnacle: Pamela Decker and Angela Kraft-Cross perform their works for organ; Other works by women composers

Tuesday, May 13

Morning at ASU School of Music, Organ Hall, Fritts and Traeri organs


Presentations:
10:00 am Emma Whitten Concert organist
“Women playing the Organ in Mexico and South America” (Tentative title)

Lindsey Johnson (PhD student, in Musicology ASU)
“When the Spirit fills the air:” Organ Music by Black women of the 20th century

Lunch on your own nearby

2:30 pm Afternoon concert by ASU and local organists: The Lady Organist, a brief history of women on the bench.

Early dinner together:
Traditional Ethiopian Meal at Cafe Lalibela, Tempe https://cafelalibela.com/

7:30 Final concert by the Helios Ensemble and Guests at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix