Bachathon 2025

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Organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach
in three locations
performed by a traveling team of four organists!

Celebrating the 340th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

 

 

Locations

North Spokane – 1:00 pm – Whitworth Church – Organ Specification

South Spokane – 2:30 pm – Saint Augustine Catholic Church – Organ Specification

  • The Saint Augustine performance is part of the Pasi at 25 recital series, celebrating 25 years since installation of the mechanical-action organ built by Martin Pasi.

Coeur d’Alene – 4:00 pm – Trinity Lutheran Church – Organ Specification

 

Program

Coming soon.

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Organists

Marietta HardyMarietta Hardy earned her Bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in Organ Pedagogy. She then taught group organ classes for BYU and has been teaching privately ever since. She is a nationally certified teacher of music in piano and organ through the Music Teachers National Association and has served as President of the local chapter, and is currently serving as treasurer of the Idaho Music Teachers Association. She served as the accompanist for the Northwest Sacred Music Chorale 2001-2016. She also worked for the late Ron Pearson at the Organ Loft and Northwest Organ Service, selling and demonstrating organs. Currently she is an adjunct piano instructor and resident accompanist at North Idaho College as well as the collaborative artist for their Cardinal Chorale and Chamber Choir. She has a thriving studio in Post Falls where she teaches organ, piano, and voice lessons. She has conducted several church choirs and has been the organist for her congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for many years.

 

Rev. Mark Haberman

Mark Haberman, a Minnesota native, has resided in Kootenai County for 30 years, relocating from Iowa after nearly 20 years there. He holds a bachelor of music education degree from Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa, and a masters degree in organ performance from University of Minnesota. Theological studies were completed at Perkins School of Theology (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. Rev. Haberman is an ordained United Methodist deacon.

Rev. Haberman has been a church musician for nearly 50 years. He served on the music and program staff of Community United Methodist Church, Coeur d’Alene, for 20 years. This was preceded by 15 years service on the music and program staff of Grace United Methodist Church, Sioux City, Iowa. He currently serves as organist at Trinity Lutheran Church, Coeur d’Alene.

Haberman’s 22-year social services career included 16 years at Community Action Partnership, Coeur d’Alene. In May 2022, he retired from Aging and Long Term Care of Eastern Washington, Spokane, where he served as planning and resource director. He serves on the Board of Officers for the AGO Spokane chapter as treasurer and in areas of program and nominating.

 

Jonathan Truong, CAGO

Jonathan Truong began his music studies with piano at the age of six, thanks to the encouragement of his parents. He has since enjoyed a number of musical pursuits. Truong served as accompanist and bass singer with the Tehachapi Symphonic Chorus, and performed as a cellist in the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra.

Since moving to Idaho, Truong has held the position of organist at Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Post Falls, where he also sings tenor and occasionally directs the chant schola. Last year he was happy to participate in the Music Conservatory of Coeur d’Alene’s Messiah concert, as a chorus member.

Truong holds the Service Playing Certificate from the American Guild of Organists. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music, drinking tea, messing around on the ukulele, and kendama.

All glory be to God!

 

Joseph Schubert

Joseph Schubert, PhD, retired from teaching in 2020, after 36 years of teaching choral music in public schools at the junior high, senior high, and university levels. From 2009 through 2023, Dr. Schubert also taught music theory, choral literature, and academic research and writing in the Three-Summer Master of Music in Choral Conducting program at California State University, Los Angeles.

Dr. Schubert’s dissertation dealt with twentieth-century French organist Jean-Jacques Grünewald, providing an extensive biography and a comprehensive analysis of Grünewald’s solo organ works in the context of the twentieth-century French organ school. He has been a church organist since he was 18 years old and is currently organist at Saint Augustine Catholic Church, Spokane. Dr. Schubert serves on the Board of Officers for the AGO Spokane chapter in the area of program.

 

 

Street Team Assets

Chapter members:

  • Print/place posters in your choir room or studio
  • Place posters wherever lovers of Bach’s music might see them
  • Share images on social media
  • Repost chapter posts on your social media page
  • Include promo images in your Sunday service leaflet or congregation newsletter
  • Insert half-page fliers in your service leaflet

Here are links for downloading image assets you can use! Print directly from your computer’s image viewer or post on your social media page.

Print Posters & Fliers

  • Poster (8.5×11)
  • Half-page fliers
  • Poster (11×17)

Social Media – all sized for optimum display

Press release.

Thank you for your help!

 

 

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