The second edition of the Invisible Rivers concert series features Annie Bloch, an organist, composer and songwriter based in Cologne, Germany. As an organist she performs solo and in alternating constellations with an improvisational and situational approach. The reality that every pipe organ as well as the space it speaks in is unique, is something she not only adapts to, but actively works with. The resulting composed improvisations explore states of change. Her pieces focus on the in-between-spaces, that are already leaning towards the next event. Searching for the ambivalences in a sound and lingering on them, her music resists singular truths. The musical material she draws from is informed by her engagement with the experimental music scene, but also by compositional styles of pop and ambient music. After her release with the cellist Emily Wittbrodt “The Mendelssohn-Project” that deconstructs Mendelssohn’s organ work Prelude and Fugue in c minor in the shape of recompositions and improvisations in 2025, she releases her first organ solo album “luvt” with OOH-Sounds (Florence) in October 2026.

Doors 6:30pm  Show 7:00pm

Presented by Publik Secrets in partnership with St. Andrew’s-Wesley Concert Series. 

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Marking the debut of the Invisible Rivers concert series, this performance features organist Maria Gajraj and composer George Rahi weaving together new poetics of the pipe organ. Through the uniting of classical and contemporary approaches, the concert harnesses the immense organ of Pacific Spirit United Church to reveal fresh expressive and imaginative potentials of the instrument.

Montreal-based organist Maria Gajraj performs a radiant program that moves fluidly between eras and atmospheres, featuring the contemplative minimalism of Arvo Pärt and her own arrangement of Hania Rani’s evocative piano works, among others.

Opening the evening, George Rahi presents pieces from his acclaimed project Music for the Augmented Pipe Organ, which“transforms the world’s oldest mechanical synthesizer into a jarringly futuristic device … making the organ feel alive with possibility.”(The Wire: Adventures in Sound and Music)

With Invisible Rivers, the organ is heard not as a monument frozen in time, but as a fluid archive in which centuries of musical, technological, and symbolic currents converge and unfold.

Doors at 7:30pm     Performance at 8:00pm

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