Performing Arts Series

Tyson Voigt, Percussion

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Experience some of the greatest marimba, drum, and theatrical music of all time at this recital performed by Dr. Tyson Voigt, member of FPC and Chair of the School of Music at Southeastern University. Dr. Voigt has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other wonderful venues throughout the US and abroad. This recital features a wide variety of music by composers from all over the world: Jacob Druckman (American Pulitzer-Prize winner), Alejandro Viñao (Argentina/London), Myles Wright (Australia), Thierry De Mey (Belgium), Nicolas Martynciow (France), and Dame Evelyn Glennie (Scotland).

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The Festival Singers of Florida

“The Lord is My Refuge”

7:00 pm | Sanctuary
$10

The Festival Singers of Florida is a highly select, auditioned choral ensemble consisting of individuals from throughout Florida and from as far away as Texas and Tennessee. Their mission is to present choral music at the highest level of excellence and to provide an artistic outlet, promoting musical growth for outstanding singers in the region. They are dedicated to expanding the awareness and appreciation of ensemble singing and the choral arts by providing community performances of the highest quality.

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Bach Festival of Central Florida

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Now in its 48th year, the Bach Festival of Central Florida will present the first concert of its 2023/’24 season here at First Presbyterian Church, Lakeland, on Sunday afternoon, October 22, 2023, at 3:00 pm. Under the direction of Dr. Larry Sledge, former Director of Choral Activities at Florida Southern College as well as the Lakeland Choral Society, the Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra will present J. S. Bach’s “Magnficat,” G. F. Handel’s “O praise the Lord with one consent (Psalm 135)” and “Zadok the Priest,” together with “In Virtute Tua” by Polish Baroque composer Grzegorz Gorczycki. Also included in the concert will be several works for organ by J. S. Bach performed by our own organist, Thomas Ingui. The concert will be free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be received to support the work of the Bach Festival.

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Peculiar Pipes: Tom Ingui’s Halloween Recital

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Prepare yourselves for an evening of organ music sure to scare your socks off. Featuring classics like Bach’s Toccata in D minor, Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique, and Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite as well as lesser known but equally frightening pieces by Dupré, Vierne, Reger, Rheinberger, Mozart, and more.

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SEU Jazz Band

7:00 pm | Loudon Hall
Free

The Southeastern University Jazz Ensemble is SEU’s premiere instrumental performing ensemble, regularly filling halls and dance floors with a variety of tunes honoring jazz’s history, and exploring pop music throughout American history.  The SEU Jazz Ensemble is directed by Jason Thomas Aylward. 

Hulin and Ingui, Piano Duet

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

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Glory of Christmas

7:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

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Tom Ingui: A Christmas Recital

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Some of the best music was written for the Christmas season, so join Tom Ingui for an evening of sugar plum fairies and sacred Christmas carols. This program will include Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Dupre’s Noel variations, Bach’s best Advent and Christmas works, and many more favorites for both the piano and the organ.

Shudong Braamse, Soprano

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Dr. Shudong Braamse has appeared on stages in Canada, Italy, Austria, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Latvia, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. She has been serving SEU since 2002. Currently she is an artist teaching at the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy and at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. 

Concert Program

Tom Ingui: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Bach’s most celebrated collection of keyboard music, The Well-Tempered Clavier, is divided into two books each with a set of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys. This recital program will feature the complete second book, written about 20 years after the first, and the performance will last a little over two hours total. Within this collection there is a staggering variety in styles and textures and yet Bach’s consistent style shines through—it is truly a compositional tour de force.

Jason Aylward, Trumpet

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

A dynamic and diverse musician and performer, Jason Thomas Aylward is dedicated to providing an engaging performance that reaches across musical genres using a wide range of performance media. Jason is currently the professor of trumpet and Director of Bands and Orchestra and trumpet professor at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

Harrison School of the Arts Chorus

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

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Tom Ingui: the Classical Style

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; these three composers, inspired heavily by the intricate music of the Baroque period, stand as innovative giants who defined the “classical style” that we know today. This style is marked by elegance in melodic and formal structure—a charmingly satisfying clarity of sound and form that (especially in Haydn’s music) is almost humorous in its brilliant simplicity. The piano, a relatively new invention at this time (around 1750-1820), was the solo instrument of choice for these composers, and the program will feature a piano sonata by each of them. While not much original music was written for the pipe organ during this time , the program will include a few extraordinary exceptions (like Mozart’s Fantasy for mechanical organ) as well as organ transcriptions of symphonies and excerpts from Mendelssohn’s organ sonatas.

Worship Night

6:30 pm | Loudon Hall
Free

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Nathan Reynolds, Trombone

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

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Tom Ingui: The Essential Bach

3:00 pm | Sanctuary
Free

Featuring J.S. Bach’s keyboard and organ music as well as transcriptions from his works for choir and orchestra, this recital will give a sampling of the best of his wide variety of musical styles. The program will include excerpts from the Partitas, English suites, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, Art of Fugue, Musical Offering, Mass in B Minor, and Orchestral Suites, as well as the Italian concerto and a variety of his organ works. Influencing all composers who came after him, Bach’s musical contribution is unrivaled and this program will only scratch the surface!

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