The Twin Cities Organ Concert Series presents John Allegar, organist March 18 at 4 p.m.
At Trinity Lutheran Church, corner of Market and Pearl streets, St. Joseph.
Allegar’s recital will showcase a variety of music from composers Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rogg, Litaize, Bach and Vierne.  The final piece will be Franz Liszt’s variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen.”
Trinity’s Casavant organ will be featured. This 1967 instrument was recently expanded in 2007 by the George M. Buck Co. of Grand Rapids.
There is no admission charge; a freewill offering will be taken ($5 suggested donation).
Call Nicole Busarow at (269) 983-5000 for more information on this concert.
Allegar, originally from Kansas City, Mo., is a DMA student at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he is a student of David Higgs.
At Eastman, he works as Professor Higgs’s teaching assistant, teaches secondary organ and holds additional assistantships in the musicology department and the Eastman Initiatives Curriculum.
Allegar holds a master’s degree from Yale University School of Music,
where he studied with Martin Jean and Jeffrey Brillhart.
While at Yale, he also completed the interdisciplinary program at the Institute of Sacred Music, the Church Music Studies Certificate and received
the 2008 Julia R. Sherman prize in organ.
Allegar graduated summa cum laude from Valparaiso University in 2007, studying with Lorraine Brugh and Karel Paukert.