Concerts - 2026 (under construction)

Our fourth season is designed to bring more of what we feel our audiences have greatly enjoyed. So, there will be three unit orchestra (theatre organ) programs and two piano programs. Clark Wilson will return and cue the Mark of Zorro. Lance Luce will include the two-reeler comedy, "Cops" in his program. We remain dedicated to bringing the best talent to Isle of Wight County and sharing their performances world-wide. When attending our programs, please be respectful of our neighbors when parking and treat our home as you would your own.

Look for our 2026 concerts to be posted on eventbrite.com after the first of the new year...

Clark Wilson is one of the most prominent and recognized scorers of silent photoplays in America today. He works exclusively with the organ in developing accurate and historic musical accompaniments as they were performed in major picture palaces during the heyday of the silent film.

Wilson began his scoring career in 1980 and has successfully toured with hundreds of film presentations at schools and universities, concert halls and performing arts centers, theatres, film festivals, and conventions. He is the organist of choice for many of the American Theatre Organ Society’s international convention silent-film presentations, has performed at American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society conventions and the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, and has scored pictures for Kino International for public DVD release. He currently enjoys creating scores for (and working with Suzanne Lloyd on the presentation of) classic Harold Lloyd comedies. His work has encompassed North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

After a brief program of "spotlight solos", Clark will cue the 1920 classic "The Mark of Zorro", starring Douglas Fairbanks as Don Diego Vega, a young aristocrat who secretly becomes the masked vigilante Zorro to fight corruption and oppression in Spanish California. The swashbuckling adventure sees Diego, a seemingly foppish nobleman, adopt a heroic dual identity to protect the poor and downtrodden, leaving his signature "Z" mark at the scene of his exploits.  

You can enjoy Clark's April, 2025 program here: https://youtu.be/E6v-VGnhQOo
 

Lance Luce is an internationally acclaimed theatre organist. He has played hundreds of concerts all over the United States, Canada, England and Australia. In 2014 he was awarded Organist of the year by the American Theatre Organ Society. In 2017 he became organist for the Detroit Red Wings at the new Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit.

He has played concerts for numerous chapters of the American Theatre Organ Society and other affiliated theatre organ groups and clubs. He has played for National and regional conventions of the American Theatre Organ Society in the United States and the Theatre Organ Society of Australia.

At age 18, Lance won first place honors in the Yamaha National Electone organ competition in California. The next year he was appointed the Head Staff Organist at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on the largest Wurlitzer ever built. Lance has made many recordings, including being part of the famous "Theatre Organ Greats - A Salute to Radio City Music Hall".

Lance was the house organist at several family style restaurants, two of them in Michigan. While at the Organ Grinder in Toronto, Ontario, he played for well over a million patrons in 8 years.

Lance has been a church organ consultant in Michigan since 1991. He is the owner of Allen Organs Southeast Michigan. He is also on the Allen Artist roster. Lance has designed and installed over 350 organs in churches, homes and institutions. His background includes pipe organ maintenance, as well as electronic organ design, installation, voicing, pipe interfacing and MIDI implementation.

Lance is on the staff at the Fox Theatre and Redford Theatre in Detroit, and the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. He has been a church organist for 50 years and is organist at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

In addition to his concert, Lance will cue the two-reel silent comedy, "Cops", starring Buster Keaton.

You can enjoy Lance's deft performance of "The Little Red Monkey" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmpJHtpk68s

Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie traditions, as well as from the Swing Era. In recent projects, they have focused on the repertoire of the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood, as the songs written for the musicals of the stage and screen represent a high point of creative ferment in American popular music.

Blending impeccable technique with mature musicality, the piano duo has performed in a variety of venues across the United States, Europe, Japan, Israel, and Australia (including the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Jazz at Filoli, the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, the Kobe Jazz Street Festival in Japan, the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Silkeborg Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark, the Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Hungary, the Milan Conservatory, Teatro Dal Verme Milano, Jazzland in Vienna, and the Jazz Bistro in Toronto), winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike.

Stephanie Trick (from St. Louis), a leading exponent of stride piano, and Paolo Alderighi (from Milan), one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists, met at a piano festival in Switzerland in 2008. Soon after, they started to collaborate on a four-hands piano project and have recorded seven albums together. Trick and Alderighi explored the formula of four-hands duets on one piano, rarely used in jazz, in their first two albums, Two for One (2012) and Sentimental Journey (2014). Their partnership continued with Double Trio Live 2015 and Double Trio Always (2016), recorded in the piano trio setting, but with two pianists instead of one. In 2018, they released their first album on two pianos, Broadway and More. This was followed by the 2020 double album, I Love Erroll, I Love James P., featuring compositions of two legendary figures of jazz piano, Erroll Garner and James P. Johnson. In 2025, they released their second album on two pianos, Classic Jazz on Two Pianos, produced in collaboration with Yamaha Music Europe.

Trick and Alderighi’s touring schedule includes performances in schools and universities, as they believe in the importance of educational outreach. Their programs range from lectures and concert lessons to master classes for students of all ages, with a focus on various topics, such as “A Short History of the Piano,” “Intersections of Jazz and Classical Music,” “Early American Popular Music and the Birth of Jazz,” “Women in Ragtime and Jazz,” “Musical Improvisation,” “Blues and Boogie Woogie,” “Ragtime and Stride Piano,” and “How to Appreciate Jazz.”

Both Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have a background in classical piano. Trick graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Alderighi has a degree in Piano Performance from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, Italy, and also graduated cum laude from Bocconi University in Management of Arts, Culture and Communication. Since 2008, he has been teaching a course at Bocconi entitled “Critical Approaches to the Arts - Music and Society.”

They have worked with a variety of institutions, including the following: the Eastman School of Music, the University of Mississippi, the Colburn School (Los Angeles), the University of California, Santa Barbara, Syracuse University (New York), Alfred University (New York), the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, Crawford High School (San Diego), Garfield High School (Washington), Parkway Central High School (Missouri), Walton High School (New York), Regional Center for the Arts (Connecticut), Tokyo Nihon University, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Conservatorio di Brescia, Bocconi University (Milan), and others.

You can enjoy enjoy one of Stephanie & Paolo's great arrangements here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocaIw3fzMkY

Stay tuned for more information about Billy...

During the years that Jelani Eddington has given concerts, he has easily established himself as one of the most prominent and sought-after artists on the concert circuit. Jelani has performed in most of the major concert venues throughout the United States, has toured extensively abroad, and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including his selection as the 2001 Theatre Organist Of The Year.

Jelani Eddington was born in Muncie, Indiana and grew up in a very musical family. Between the interests of his mother, a professional music teacher of many years, and those of his grandmother, a well-respected piano instructor, it was no surprise when Jelani demonstrated an inclination toward music at a very early age.

Shortly after beginning piano instruction at the age of four, Jelani began studying classical piano under the direction of his grandmother. At the age of eight, a trip to hear the 4-manual 42-rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ installed in the Indianapolis, Indianarestaurant, the Paramount Music Palace, introduced Jelani to the sounds of the theatre pipe organ. Soon thereafter, he began to pursue classical organ lessons and ultimately began studying theatre organ under the direction of John Ferguson, whose skills as a theatre organ instructor have been highly acclaimed internationally.

At the age of 13, Jelani won the American Theatre Organ Society’s Young Theatre Organist Competition, prevailing over competitors ages 13-21 from the United States, England, Australia, and New Zealand. Jelani remains the youngest competitor ever to win this title. Jelani went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Indiana University in 1996, and later received a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School in 1999, after which time he was admitted to practice law in New York and later in Wisconsin.

During the course of his concert career, Jelani has been featured at numerous national and regional conventions of the American Theatre Organ Society, and has toured extensively throughout the world.  He has also produced and marketed over 30 theatre organ albums on some of the best-known and most dynamic instruments in the country. 

In addition to his work as a concert and recording artist, he devotes significant time to coaching and teaching the next generations of young organists. Through his work with the annual Summer Youth Adventure and through private coaching, Jelani has helped to guide numerous talented young musicians to successful careers in their own right.

Jelani also became the first musician to have a video of his theatre organ performance go “viral.” Within a few short weeks, Jelani’s performance of John William’s Star Wars Symphonic Suite was viewed on YouTube over 1 million times in more than 200 countries around the world. As of 2025, that video has earned more than 3.5 million views worldwide.

In addition to his concert, Jelani will cue a two-reel silent comedy to be announced at a later date. 

You can enjoy Jelani's incredibly beautiful performance of "Over the Rainbow" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyRlvhFCEVw