New Zealand-born, US-trained, Eugene Lavery begins the series in dazzling style on the English-style instrument in historic St. Michael’s Church, with a fiery version of Handel’s Hornpipe, Jongen’s stupendous Sonata Eroica, and music from Iain Farrington, Bach, Massenet, and Chopin.

Winner of several competitions, and graduate of Curtis and Juilliard, Aaron Patterson at St. John’s Lutheran Church in downtown Charleston begins with Bach and ends with legendary Juilliard teacher John Weaver.  In between comes Buxtehude, American favorite Charles Callahan, and New York’s own Dorothy Papadokos.

Now hailing from Columbia SC, Yale graduate Thomas Russell transports us to France on the instrument at St. John the Baptist, with music by Pierné, Corette, Franck, and Daquin, rounded out with a little Mendelssohn and Schumann.

The historic Mother Emanuel AME church's new Zimmer organ allows Pamela Kane of Hilton Head (holder of a DMA from UNC-Greensboro, appearing for the third time at L’Organo), to share spiritual settings by Marianne Kim, other songs from the Gullah tradition, and music by Molinaro, Bach, and Sir George Thalben-Ball.

The grand Zimmer instrument in Summerall Chapel at the Citadel is the perfect vehicle for Oberlin graduate Chase Olson to present music of Black composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, along with Fauré, Franck, Bach (the virtuosic D major Prelude and Fugue), Mendelssohn, and Angela Kraft-Cross.

A rising Junior at Baylor University, Laura Smith performs in West Ashley at Holy Spirit Lutheran, bringing a varied program of Bach, Reger, Seth Bingham, and the “Star Wars Medley” of John Williams.

From Bemidji in the far north of Minnesota, Sarah Carlson, graduate of St Olaf and Iowa U, offers an eclectic mix including a Bossa Nova by German composer Johannes Michel, the Chinoiserie of Robert Elmore, and music of Dupre and Bach. Having previously performed on L’Organo in 2009, she also lists Notre Dame in Paris among her many recital venues.

From the organ department at Eastman, David Kraft begins with a stirring Sonata by Joseph Rheinberger, along with works by Franck, Langlais, Naji Hakim, Bach, and Widor, on the lovely Kenneth Jones tracker organ.

On one of Charleston’s grandest instruments, at St. Matthew’s Lutheran, Canadian Brennan Szafron, now of Converse College in Tryon, NC, brings the music of Widor, Bach, Guilmant, Bedard, and Americans Sowerby, Gerre Hancock, and Nico Muhly.

Juilliard virtuoso Eddie Zheng returns to L’Organo after studying in France, with the complete and ever-popular Symphony 5 of Widor, for which the Cathedral’s French-style Bedient is the perfect choice (in a perfect acoustic!)

Boston’s own Rosalind Mohnsen plays the Ben Hutto Memorial Concert at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St Paul, featuring New England composers Henry Dunham and H. Alexander Mathews, along with Vierne, Purvis, Gustin Wright, Morton Gould, and Zsolt Gardonyi.

“Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky will seem very appropriate as the closer in Thomas Heidenreich’s program in the beautiful St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church on Upper King. Praetorius’s “A Mighty Fortress” begins this Michigan graduate’s program.