The Beaverbrook Community Concert Series is proud to present an organ recital by Peter Bayer, Coordinator of the series and music director of Kanata United Church.
This concert will take place on 28 September, 2025 at 3:00pm, at Kanata United Church (33 Leacock Dr., Kanata ON).
No need for tickets: just show up! This concert is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, with a $15 donation recommended. To download a printable poster for this concert, please click here.
About the Artist
Peter Bayer holds a BA in Organ Performance and Classics from The Catholic University of America and is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. While at CUA, he spent a semester studying historical performance of early Italian repertoire in Rome, performing a recital there on the restored 16th-century instrument at S. Barbara dei Librai. He is currently writing his PhD dissertation in the Classics department at the University of Toronto on the theme of the Inner Teacher in Clement of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, and the ancient Platonist philosophical tradition. He has recently been blessed with a beautiful wife and twin daughters.
Before becoming director at KUC, he was Bevan Organ Scholar at Trinity College, Toronto, while maintaining a busy schedule as a substitute organist. He was a semifinalist in the 2025 Canadian National Organ Competition and has performed numerous recitals in Washington D.C. and environs, and Toronto, including notably at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, D.C. and St. James Cathedral, Toronto. Peter’s other interests include the history and theory of music, particularly of the seventeenth century, classical English literature, and Medieval and Renaissance art and history.
Program
Tiento 6o tono sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la
Pablo Bruna (1611-1679)
Vater Unser (seven verses)
Jakob Praetorius (1586-1651)
Vater Unser BWV 682
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in D Op.65 No.6
I. Chorale and Variations. Andante sostenuto—Allegro molto
II. Fuga. Sostenuto e legato
III. Finale. Andante
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847))
Here is a bit of an introduction to the theme of this month’s program from Peter Bayer:
“This concert is a musical journey through time. It begins in Spain in the mid-1600s with an organ work by Pablo Bruna, a famous blind organist of the time. It then moves to Germany and traverses three hundred years through three musical variations on the Lutheran tune for the Lord’s Prayer by three German masters: Jakob Praetorius, a preeminent organist of the early baroque in Germany, J.S. Bach, and Felix Mendelssohn.”
All of our concerts are held at Kanata United Church, 33 Leacock Drive Kanata ON. Our venue offers limited parking, with street parking
available in the surrounding neighborhood.
The venue is accessible, which includes automatic doors, a dedicated accessible washroom and no stairs required for entry.
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