2026 Pipe Organ Encounter (POE)

Utah Valley Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) 

July 20-25, 2026

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  • For Youth Ages 13-18 who have piano or organ proficiency ranging from intermediate to advanced. No previous organ skills required.
  • Early Bird Registration fee – $500 by April 1
  • Regular Registration fee – $575 by June 15
  • Register at: agohq.com, then Education, then Pipe Organ Encounters
  • Applications for scholarship assistance are available through the registration portal. Scholarships are based on need and the application deadline is April 1.
  • Questions?? Contact Dorothy Jensen, Director,

 

Lodging in the pristine mountains of Utah @ Timp Lodge

Experience pipe organs at Brigham Young University and in Salt Lake City

 

Guest Artist Isabelle Demers

    • Concert Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 7:30pm.

 

    • With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Canadian-American organist Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe for her exhilarating performances. Her recital for the joint International Society of Organbuilders-American Institute of Organbuilders convention so enchanted the audience that she “left the entire congress in an atmosphere of ‘Demers fever’.” In 2010, her performance for the national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Washington, D.C., was received with unbridled acclaim not only by critics, who deemed it “one of the most outstanding events of the convention” (The American Organist), but also by the standing-room-only audience of her colleagues which called her back to the stage five times. A native of Québec and a doctoral graduate of the Juilliard School, Dr. Demers is Associate Professor of Organ at McGill University (Montréal, Québec) and, from 2025-2027 the visiting professor of organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She was formerly the Joyce Bowden Chair in Organ and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University (Waco, Texas).

Tour an organ building company Biglow Organs

Individual and group lessons

  • Daily individual organ lessons
    • Our faculty
      • Mark Campbell
        Clay Christiansen
        Elizabeth Forsyth
        Neil Harmon
        Connor Larsen
        Valerie McDougall
        Kim Moody
        Sheri Peterson
  • Group classes and workshops at Brigham Young University
  • Workshop by Isabelle Demers.

Other fun adventures and activities

    • Explore BYU campus: participants recital on the new Latourneau Concert Organ, the carillon tower, and the reverb chamber in Physics Dept
    • Have fun with outdoor activities and hikes
    • Listen to faculty recitals