Concert Series
2024-2025 35th Anniversary Season
All Concerts Free
The Great Lakes Brass Quintet
Sunday, February 16, 2025 — 4 PM
The Great Lakes Brass Quintet presents an afternoon of both serious and lighthearted music including jazz, ragtime, Renaissance transcriptions, and original works for brass quintet.
Matthew Ingersoll, trumpet — Bendle Schools
Quinton Larion, trumpet — Harrison Schools
Zach Monica, horn — freelance musician
Norman Wika, trombone — Saginaw Valley State University
Zachary Vandergraff, tuba — Frankenmuth Schools
Stainer’s Crucifixtion: A Lenten Musical Meditation
Côr Ffrindiau — Michael Skutt, conductor
Sunday, March 30, 2025 — 4:00pm
John Stainer’s traditional Victorian Passion setting combines the narrative of Christ’s crucifixion and death with introspective hymns. Led by Midland conductor Michael Skutt, Côr Ffrindiau, Welsh for Choir of Friends, presents major sacred works with choir and organ.
Alain Truche, DMA, Organist
In collaboration with Saginaw Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Saturday, May 3, 10 AM — Masterclass for Student Organists
Sunday, May 4, 4 PM — Recital
Alain Truche is a graduate of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. His recital includes works by J. S. Bach, Marcel Dupré, Horatio Parker, Camille Saint-Saёns, Percy Whitlock, and Charles-Marie Widor. Truche also studied at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Indiana University and has performed in France and Taiwan. His recital features the 1989 Casavant pipe organ.
Second Annual Community Messiah Sing-a-Long
Mid-December 2025
Plan to return for our second annual Handel’s Messiah community sing-a-long. We are in talks with the Saginaw Bay Youth Orchestra to collaborate with their musicians on this event.
Concerts at First Presbyterian Saginaw gratefully acknowledges the support received for the 2024-2025 season from the Saginaw Community Foundation and the Robert W. and Eileen E. Hesse Memorial Fund.
Announcing the 2024-2025 Season
Question? — music@spcsaginaw.org | All Concerts Free
Pictures: An Exhibition of Organ Music
Thomas Heidenreich, DMA — Organ
Sunday, October 13 — 4:00pm
Thomas is the Director of Music Ministries at First and Second Presbyterian Churches in Saginaw. Centered around a transcription of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, this concert is a multi-media collaboration of music, art, and architecture.
Handel’s Messiah: A Sing-A-Long
Sunday, December 15 — 4:00pm
The choirs of First Presbyterian Saginaw and Assumption Parish Midland will join forces to lead a sing-a-long performance of selections from the Christmas portion of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, plus the Hallelujah Chorus. You are invited to join in singing the choruses, or just come to listen. The solos will be sung by local professional singers.
About The Series
Concerts at First Presbyterian Saginaw is a community connector that uses the power of music and the arts to build connections within the greater Saginaw community. Concerts at First Presbyterian Saginaw was established in 1989 at the time of the dedication of our magnificent Casavant Frères pipe organ, Opus. 3660. The series has featured over 250 concerts in the last 35 years by artists of local, regional, national, and international stature. The series seeks to promote God’s gift of the arts within the Saginaw community at large. We are grateful that the series continues to receive financial support from our congregation and local community members. If you are interested in performing for our concert series or would like to offer financial support for our artists, please contact Thomas Heidenreich at music@spcsaginaw.
Venue
Our beautiful historic sanctuary offers remarkable acoustics for performing artists and ensembles. The marble floor altar area lends itself particularly well to soloists and chamber groups. We have a high quality audiovisual system that can accommodate various performing, streaming, and recording needs. Seating capacity, including main and balcony levels, is approximately 600 people.
Instruments
Our church has been blessed with state-of-the-art musical instruments, including our Steinway 9’ Concert Grand (1928), our Steinway 6’2” Grand (1917), our Zuckerman “Flemish” Harpsichord (1974), and of course, our magnificent Casavant Frères pipe organ, Op. 3660 (1988). Both of the Steinway grands were restored by James Reeder, RPT, Master Craftsman, Reeder Pianos, Inc., in Lansing, Michigan. The specs for the Casavant Frères pipe organ are below.
