Skinner Pipe Organ Performances

Organ Concerts Have Returned!

Hear the museum’s restored Skinner pipe organ and see the beautifully renovated Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium. Matt Dierking from the Dayton Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will perform on selected Sundays of each month at 2 p.m. Please see the DAI Calendar for all dates

These informal performances are open to the public and included in the museum’s general admission. You don’t have to stay for an entire performance; feel free to come and go as you like during that time. Please maintain physical distancing of at least six (6) feet between yourself and others not in your party. 

The Skinner pipe organ was installed when the museum building was constructed in 1928-29, and it is one of only a handful of such instruments still in existence!

2024 Performances:

*All concerts are an hour long unless otherwise noted.*

March 24 – This program will feature the music and art of Easter. The first half of the music will include Easter hymn variations and voluntaries followed by selections from Handel’s Messiah.

April 7 -This program will have two parts. The one part celebrates the Eclipse with songs like “Here Comes the Sun”, “Jupiter”, “Please don’t Take My Sunshine Away” and “Blue Moon”.  The other part celebrates Bach’s birthday (March 31, 1685) with some Bach and other baroque music. 

April 21
May 12 and 19
June 13 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
June 16 1:30 – 2:00 PM
July  21
July 25 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
July 28 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
August 11
August 22 5:30 PM- 6:00 PM
August 25 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
September 1 and 15
October 6 and 27 (Spooktacular, Halloween concert)
November 3 and 17
December 1, 8 and 15