The Lancaster Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) will sponsor the Richard E. Fritsch (1955-2007) Memorial Organ Recital on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 4 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 750 Greenfield Road, Lancaster.

Robert C. Horton will perform selections by Franz Liszt and Jehan Alain plus an improvisation on a given melody. The organ is a two-manual, 27-rank Dobson Op. 83 pipe organ from 2006. A freewill offering will be received to support future Fritsch Memorial Organ Recitals.

Horton serves as a technician with Brunner & Associates, an organ builder in Silver Spring. He previously served as interim chapel organist at Duke University and, from 2005 to 2008, he served as director of keyboard studies at Dordt College, now Dordt University, where he taught organ, history, and solfege and directed the college jazz band. Horton holds degrees from Cornell University, Northwestern University, and the University of Kansas. As a Fulbright scholar, he studied at the Conservatoire National de Region in Toulouse, France. Horton's playing has garnered numerous accolades, including highest honors at the 2007 Mikhail Tariverdiev Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia, as well as first prize at the 2022 AGO National Competition in Organ Improvisation. 

For more information about the Lancaster Chapter of AGO, visit www.lancasterago.org.