Date:&nbsp;Saturday, February 1st, 2025Time:&nbsp;1:00pm-2:30pmLocation:&nbsp;Pacific Beach United Methodist Church (1561 Thomas Avenue, San Diego, CA 92109)Optional:&nbsp;no-host happy hour to follow at “Café Athena” in Pacific Beach.&nbsp;Event Description:&nbsp;Caring for people is never in the church musician’s job description, but for sustained success in any church, it is important to develop an approach that embodies a pastoral heart that is centered on communicating empathy, concern, and compassion, along with assembling a referral network to provide longer-term assistance when needed. A panel of four San Diego health specialists will discuss the basics of their field that will help you become more confident in your ability to help those around you. Dr. Christopher Cook will facilitate the discussion.

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AGOSD presents: The Accidental Pastor

Date:&nbsp;Saturday, March 22, 2025Time:&nbsp;3:00pm-5:00pmLocation:&nbsp;Christ Lutheran Church-Pacific Beach (4761 Cass Street, San Diego, CA 92109)Event Description:&nbsp;The Members Recital and Beach Breeze Awards will be an afternoon to remember.&nbsp;Last year’s Beach Breeze Awards, recognizing our members’ contributions, garnered national recognition. We have more awards to hand out, but not before we enjoy several members performances. If you would like to play, please contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:christophercook1@icloud.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(197, 46, 38);">Chris Cook</a>. Reception to follow.d

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AGOSD presents: Members' Recital & Beach Breeze Awards

Mark your Calendars! The 2025 AGO Scholarship Auditions will be held on May 10th, 2025. Time and Location to be announced soon. Please stay tuned for more details.

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2025 AGO Scholarship Auditions

Date:&nbsp;Saturday, May 18th, 2025Time:&nbsp;4:00pmLocation:&nbsp;St Andrews Episcopal Church, La Mesa (4816 Glen Street, La Mesa, CA)Event Description:&nbsp;Featuring&nbsp;Organist, Jonas Nordwall, an internationally renowned virtuoso organist equally skilled in both traditional classical and modern/popular schools of musical performance. He has performed in North America, Japan, Europe, and China and has made eight concert tours to Australia. Nordwall is the only organist to play a public recital on the famous concert organ in Sydney’s Town Hall that was nationally broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Company. He has been an adjudicator and guest recitalist for the Swiss International Organ Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nordwall has also performed numerous programs on the Spreckels organ in San Diego’s Balboa Park as part of their International Artist Series.The Organ:&nbsp;The organ installed at St. Andrew’s was custom designed for the church and it incorporates the original 31 rank Simpson Pipe Organ that has served our church for many years. In addition to incorporating the original pipes, an Allen GX350 adds 66 Digital Stops along with Allen Organ’s APEX floating point technology which provides 65 times more resolution than existing fixed point systems. That is a lot of fancy technical stuff to say that this organ is beyond impressive. Reception to follow.

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