Concert organist Adam J. Brakael will kick off the Musical Arts Series season. (Submitted photo)

PORT CLINTON – The Musical Arts Series in Port Clinton opens its 24th season with a spellbinding and artistically masterful performance by concert organist Adam J. Brakel. His program will take place on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3:30 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, located at 414 Madison St. in Port Clinton.

Brakel’s celebrated performances span the globe – from coast to coast in the United States to across Europe and Asia. Brakel has one of the largest and most diverse performing repertoires in the world. His expansive list includes the entire spectrum of styles featuring the complete organ works of Bach, Bruhns, Buxtehude, Couperin, Liszt, de Grigny, Franck, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Duruflé.

Brakel’s performance highlights include the complete works of César Franck, and, most notably, the fiendishly difficult Six Etudes of Jeanne Demessieux, of which Brakel is one of the few organists in the world to have performed and recorded in its entirety.

A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and Duquesne University, Brakel has a rich and decorated musical pedigree, having studied with Donald Sutherland and Dame Gillian Weir.

He has taken top prizes in the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, the Gruenstein Memorial Organ Competition, the John Rodland Memorial Scholarship Competition, the French Organ Music Seminar Competition, and the Carlene Neihart International Organ Competition.

He has also earned the André Marchal Award for Excellence in Performance as well as the Oundle Award, among other honors.

Brakel is the newly appointed Director of Music at Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach, Florida. For seven years prior, he served as Director of Music for the Diocese of Orlando and St. James Cathedral in Orlando, Florida.

For more information on the concert and tickets, visit https://musicalartsportclinton.com.