Michael Kleinschmidt was appointed Canon for Cathedral Music at Saint Mark's in 2015 after serving in similar positions at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon, and Trinity Church, Boston. Michael's primary mentor in church music was the late Gerre Hancock, with whom he worked as Assistant Organist of Saint Thomas Church, New York City, in the early 1990s. Michael holds degrees in organ performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Eastman School of Music. In addition to his vocation, he enjoys exploring the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest on foot.

Saint Mark's Music Series: Organ Plus in Thomsen Chapel

Saturday, September 30, 2023 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person

This celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Marion Camp Oliver Organ in Thomsen Chapel, installed by Paul Fritts & Co. in 2003…

Free

Saint Mark's Music Series: Organ Plus in Thomsen Chapel

Friday, September 29, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person

This celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Marion Camp Oliver Organ in Thomsen Chapel, installed by Paul Fritts & Co. in 2003…

Free

Organ by Night: Canon Michael Kleinschmidt

Sunday, September 17, 2023 @ 10:00pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States

These informal Organ by Night mini-concerts have introduced generations of Seattleites to the power and beauty of a real pipe organ. All ar…

Free

Organ by Night: Canon Michael Kleinschmidt

Sunday, July 16, 2023 @ 10:00pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States

The return of in-person Compline services also marks the return of another favorite late-night musical event: post-Compline organ music! Th…

Free

St. Dunstan's Concert Series: Rebekah Gilmore, soprano & Michael Kleinschmidt, organ

Sunday, March 26, 2023 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Shoreline, WA, United States
Online and in-person

Free (suggested donations: $30 family, $15 adult, $5 students)

A Prelude to Evensong: Michael Kleinschmidt, organ

Sunday, March 13, 2022 @ 5:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Epiphany Parish of Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Come early to Choral Evensong to enjoy a 30-minute organ recital on the Noack organ featuring Michael Kleinschmidt, Canon Musician at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle.

Free (Free)

Saint Mark’s Music Series: Flentrop Organ Concert

Friday, January 14, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Program of organ compositions inspired by the Magnificat & the Te Deum laudamus. Works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Nicolas de Grigny, Rachel Laurin, & David Hurd, plus a world premiere from Rebecca Groom Te Velde.

$20 ($15 senior)

Saint Mark's Music Series: Flentrop Organ Concert [LIVE]

Friday, October 23, 2020 @ 10:30pm – 12:00am (EDT)
Online event
Organist Michael Kleinschmidt performs Charles-Marie Widor's Symphonie Romane, Op. 73, & members of The Compline Choir chant Gregorian themes on which the symphony is based.

Free (Free)

Saint Mark's Music Series: All-Bach on the Flentrop

Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 10:30pm – 12:00am (EDT)
Online event
Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
Johann Sebastian Bach – Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582

Free (Free)

Saint Mark's Music Series: Vehicles for Variation

Friday, February 21, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
An exploration of the chaconne through works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Benjamin Britten, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

$20 / $15

Organist Michael Kleinschmidt: Bach, Scheidt, Buxtehude, & Mozart

Sunday, January 26, 2020 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tacoma, WA, United States
Michael Kleinschmidt, organist of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, plays a vivacious and exuberant program of pieces by Samuel Scheidt, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, framing J.S. Bach’s virtuosic “Wedge” Prelude and Fugue in E minor.

Free

Michael Kleinschmidt Organ Recital

Sunday, November 24, 2019 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Preludes and fugues of J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms, plus music by Dietrich Buxtehude, Petr Eben, and more.

$18 / $10 / kids free

Pipe & Bow, Wind & Wood: A concert for violoncello & organ

Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 6:15pm – 7:15pm (PDT)
Epiphany Parish of Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Toccata
Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphony No. 8
J.S. Bach – Sonata in D major

Free

Flentrop organ concert: Michael Kleinschmidt

Friday, January 19, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Program includes Jehan Alain’s Trois Danses – a set of three striking pieces containing some of the most rhythmically compelling music ever composed for the organ.

$10-$15

Michael Kleinschmidt Organ Recital

Sunday, March 12, 2017 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Epiphany Parish of Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
An organ recital from the Organist and Director of Music at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle.

Free

Flentrop Organ 50th Anniversary Concert

Friday, October 2, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Flentrop pipe organ, a landmark among pipe organs in North America.

$12-$18 suggested donation