Musician’s return to Warsaw part of Rodeheaver Series for Performing Arts
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Organist and pianist Aaron Tan is returning for a concert this weekend as part of the Rodeheaver Series for the Performing Arts. Tan will perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, Warsaw. His program this year will feature chorale preludes and works from Bach, Handel, Barber, Bolcom, Ravel, Vierne and Bizet. Tan has won numerous contests and scholarships on piano and organ, including the Toronto RCCO Young Organists Competition, the Osborne Organ Competition of the Summer Institute of Church Music (Ontario), the RCCO's National Organ Playing Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship for Church Musicians, the Lilian Forsyth Scholarship, the West Chester University Organ Competition, the Arthur Poister Scholarship Com-petition and the XVI Poland International Piano Festival Competition. He recently completed a four-year position as organ scholar at St. John's Episcopal Church in Detroit, Mich. He is artist in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit. For more information, visit www.AaronTan.org. Admission to Sunday’s concert is free. Donations to the series will be accepted. The church is at 179 S. Indiana St., Warsaw, and is handicapped accessible.
