Field Trip 2021

Tabernacle Organ Demonstration/Recital

With Tabernacle Organist, Dr. Brian Mathias

In-person participants only. Virtual Organ Crawls will be made available to online participants.

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We will gather Wednesday afternoon to travel to Salt Lake City for an organ-lover’s field trip! The field trip is always the highlight of the workshop for many of our participants. Don’t miss it! Bus transportation will be available for an extra fee.

Wednesday, August 4th
3:45 Buses depart from BYU
4:45 Dinner on your own in SLC
6:30 Tabernacle Organ Demonstration/Recital
8:30 Buses depart for Provo

The bus is now full

Dr. Brian Mathias

Prior to his appointment as a Tabernacle organist in January 2018, Dr. Brian Mathias served as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He also served as Associate organist at Country Club Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri.

Among Dr. Mathias’s recent solo performances are recitals at the Salt Lake Tabernacle and the LDS Conference Center (Salt Lake City, Utah); the Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City); Washington National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.); BYU-Idaho (Rexburg); and Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas). He has competed on the international stage in a number of prestigious international organ competitions, including the 2011 and 2014 Canadian International Organ Competitions and the 2010 Grand Prix de Chartres International Organ Competition.

Mathias earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Kansas, where he studied organ with James Higdon and carillon with Elizabeth Berghout. He received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Brigham Young University, studying organ with Don Cook and Douglas Bush and carillon with Don Cook.