2025-2026 SEASON ANNOUNCED!

A Festival of Music concert series

This 35th season promises great variety including ‘old fashioned jazz,’ classical chamber music, a stellar young organist to make our instrument shine, the thrills of a professional handbell quartet, and a men’s choir with roots as old as the Mayo Clinic itself. Please consider joining us, and bring a friend or two!

what we do

A Festival of Music concert series is a ministry of First Presbyterian Church. Parallel to our music ministry ensembles and programs, A Festival of Music is one of our favorite ways to reach out and invite the Rochester community to join us, for entertainment, art, high quality musical performance, and fellowship.

Now in its 35th season, A Festival of Music has featured soloists, instrumental and vocal performances, handbell ensembles, bands, orchestras, and dramatizations. We seek to offer diverse programming with broad appeal.

freely offered

Tickets are never required, attendance is free, open to all people, and we are proud that our series has been supported entirely by free-will donations
since its inception in 1992.

Our season of concerts and receptions costs around $11,000 to promote. As a religious organization, we are not able to receive the various arts grants that buoy some of our neighbor organizations. We rely on private donors to help us fuel this outreach. Won’t you join us?

New in 2025, we are updating our Giving Recognition Categories!

Please consider donating and we’ll look forward to listing your support, dedications, or memorials in our publications!

ANGEL - $1,500 and more

SPONSOR - $500-1,499

PATRON - $250-499

SUBSCRIBER - $101-249

FRIEND - $100 and less

season 35

A Festival of Music: 2025-2026

Click below to see a calendar of presently scheduled events and past concerts.
We hope you’ll plan to join us and see offerings that represent something for everyone!

NOTE: The October 26 concert time is 3:00pm, not 4:00pm as listed below.

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