A Festival of Hymns with Tom Trenney

Welcome to A Festival of Hymns with Tom Trenney!

Join us on Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston for an afternoon filled with beautiful music and uplifting hymns led by guest organist Tom Trenney on the magnificent Skinner Opus 327 organ.

This event, co-sponsored by The Chicago AGO, The North Shore AGO, and Opus 327, is free and open to all.

Mark your calendars and invite your friends and family to join us for A Festival of Hymns with Tom Trenney.

About Tom Trenney:

Composer, conductor, organist, preacher, and teacher Tom Trenney has been blessed to serve as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 2009. In 2019, he was invited to become Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Tom’s choirs have been honored to perform for state, regional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and they have been award winners in the American Prize for choral ensembles.

Tom has been a featured performer at churches, colleges, and concert halls across the country including Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Philadelphia’s Kauffman Center, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall. His choral compositions are published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst Press, Choristers Guild, E.C. Schirmer/Galaxy, Morningstar, Musicspoke, Pavane, and G. Schirmer.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for the inspiration of his teachers and mentors – especially Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Craig Hella Johnson, (Mister) Fred Rogers, William Weinert, Anne Wilson and Todd Wilson.

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