Join us for a special evening featuring internationally acclaimed organist Canon Mark Laubach. With over 35 years as Organist and Choirmaster at St. Stephen’s Pro-Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre, Canon Laubach has performed at iconic venues like Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Kennedy Center. Mark your calendars now and join us for an evening of incredible music.
Price of Admission: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students
Tickets available at the door.
Since January 1986 Canon Mark Laubach, ARSCM, has served as Organist and Choirmaster of St. Stephen’s Church in Wilkes-Barre, the Pro-Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, where he administers an active liturgical and choral music program, concert series, and Music from St. Stephen’s, a radio broadcast heard weekly on WVIA 89.9 FM Public Radio. In 2008 he was made Honorary Canon Precentor of the Diocese of Bethlehem in recognition of his accomplishments and contributions to the musical and liturgical life of the Diocese.
Canon Laubach received a Bachelor’s Degree in Church Music from Westminster Choir College in 1982 and a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in 1984. He served for one year as Fellow in Church Music at Washington National Cathedral. His organ teachers have included J. Clinton Miller, George Markey, Donald McDonald, and David Craighead. Since winning first prize in the 1984 American Guild of Organists (AGO) National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance, Mark has performed in many prominent churches and concert halls in the USA and in Great Britain and Germany. In the United States, he has performed at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and Saint Thomas Church in New York City, the Chapel at West Point Military Academy, the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Trinity Church in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, Girard College in Philadelphia, the Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts, and the Crystal Cathedral (now Christ Cathedral of the Diocese of Orange) in Garden Grove, California. In Great Britain Mark has presented recitals at Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge. He is a frequent recitalist, clinician, presenter of hymn festivals, and competition adjudicator for National and Regional Conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and National and Regional Conferences of the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM). He has recorded three critically acclaimed compact discs on the Pro Organo label: Teutonic Titanics, French Fest, and Mosaics in Sound. Canon Laubach teaches organ students privately and at Marywood University in Scranton. He has taught and performed at numerous “Pipe Organ Encounters” sponsored by Chapters of the AGO. He is represented by the Concert Artists Cooperative.
In 1993 and 1994, Mark began his involvement with the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) in America when he served as an organist for the Valley Forge Course, which moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1995 and became the King’s College Course, which continued every year until 2019. In October 2024 at Saint Albans Cathedral in England, he was made an Honorary Associate of the RSCM for his many years of musical and administrative leadership of the King’s College Course, which was the largest of its kind in North America.
The year 2022 marked the 200th anniversary year of the birth of César Franck. In celebration of this, Mark performed all twelve of Franck’s major organ works in recitals at St. Stephen’s in Wilkes-Barre in November 2022. He also performed several other “Franck 200” recitals that same year in Binghamton (NY), Lancaster (PA), and Rutland (VT).
Over the past two decades Canon Laubach has served as an organist for numerous choral residencies by American choirs in England, playing for daily liturgies in the Cathedrals of Bristol, Chichester, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Lincoln, Norwich, Wells, and Winchester.