A free organ concert featuring music by Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Mendelssohn, Williams, Howells, and Langlais is the next event in the Festival of the Senses performing arts series at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4106 JFK Boulevard in North Little Rock, at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. Performing a selection of music written for the pipe organ will be native Arkansan Beau Baldwin, Organist and Director of Music at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Little Rock.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will include Dieterich Buxtehude’s Praeludium in G Minor; Johann Pachelbel’s Fantasia in D Minor; Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 in C Minor; an improvisation on the hymn “What Wondrous Love Is This?”; Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes: Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Master Tallis’ Testament by Herbert Howells; and Suite Médiévale by Jean Langlais.

Native Arkansan Beau Baldwin grew up and attended Catholic schools in Little Rock and Fayetteville High School. After earning a degree in accounting at the University of Arkansas, he returned to his first love, music. He had taken piano lessons since second grade, began formal organ lessons after that in Little Rock, and then studied with Jesse Eschbach at the University of North Texas in Denton. He served as an assistant organist and director of music at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Fayetteville and the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation in Lewisville, Texas, before returning to Little Rock in 2015 as Organist and Director of Music for the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. In 2018 he played a concert at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City as part of the Kilgen Organ Recital Series. An active member of the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, he hosted the organization’s annual meeting in Little Rock in 2022. Beau is also involved in the Association of Anglican Musicians and is Sub Dean of the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.