The Beaverbrook Community Concert Series is proud to present organ masterworks from Spain and Germany performed by Peter Bayer, Director of Music at Kanata United Church, and Program Coordinator of the series.
This concert will take place on 13 June, 2027 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
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Variations on Wie gross ist des almacht’gen Gute
Anonymous, Tiento de lleno de quinto tono (Huerto ameno de varias flores de musica, recogidas de varios organistas por Fray Antonio Martin y Coll, 1709: Obras de quinto tono no. 2)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Prelude and “Fiddle” fugue in d minor BWV 539
Anonymous, Tiento de lleno de cuarto tono (Huerto ameno: Obras de cuarto tono de lleno no. 4)
Mendelssohn, Allegro, Chorale, and Fugue in d minor
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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