Music At Covenant

03/23/2026

The choir of Covenant-First Presbyterian will present a concert this Sunday, 3/29, at 4pm. It will feature Lenten-themed selections from Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, and Pergolesi.

11/26/2025

11/04/2025

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music alumnus and former Covenant-First organ scholar, Hayden Glasgow, will be returning to perform a recital on November 8 at 4 PM. His program will include J.S. Bach’s monumental Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 548, “The Wedge,” the fourth movement of Czech composer Petr Eben’s Job, as well as one of Hayden’s original compositions, among other works. Come enjoy some great organ music, performed on the church’s 1915 Austin Pipe organ—and it’s over 3,500 pipes!

04/06/2025

Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 4 PM for a presentation of the second part of Handel’s Messiah, which depicts the events of the Passion. This will be a perfect way to begin your Holy Week preparations. Our choral scholars will perform the solo arias.

717 Elm St, downtown Cincinnati. Free validated parking in the adjacent Park Place garage.

01/26/2025

Seventh Annual Organ Festival
Featuring organist Daryl Robinson
March 9, 2025 4-5:15 PM

Join for our Seventh Annual Organ Festival on Sunday, March 9 at 4 PM, featuring Daryl Robinson. Daryl Robinson is Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and was winner of the First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2012 AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. Daryl Robinson has earned international acclaim from critics and audiences alike, being described as an artist with “… a driving muscular poetry underpinned by nimble technique and nuanced sense of style …” (Choir and Organ) and possessing “… flawless technique and rhythmic verve …” (The American Organist).

The concert if free and open to the public.
Free validated parking is available in the Park Place Parking Garage with entrances on 7th and Elm Streets.

12/22/2024

Please join us for worship on Christmas Eve. The service begins at 7pm, and a prelude concert featuring choir, organ, and soloists begins at 6:30pm. Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, 717 Elm St, downtown Cincinnati.

05/27/2024

Join us for an organ recital on Sunday, June 2 at 4 PM, featuring Covenant-First Presbyterian Church organist, Andrew Hackett. This recital will feature several of his original works as well as works by J.S. Bach and others. Come hear the sound of the 1915 Austin organ in the historic Covenant-First Presbyterian Church. Watch the organist in action via an up-close camera.

Andrew Hackett is an award-winning composer and phenomenal organist. Mark your calendar now. This is a recital you won't want to miss. 717 Elm St, downtown Cincinnati.

11/22/2023

Join the Covenant Choir and the Choral Scholars for a sing-a-long performance of selections from Handel's beloved Messiah. The choir will be presenting the Christmas portion of Messiah on Sunday, December 3 at 3 PM. Covenant-First’s Choral Scholars (mostly current students or alumni from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) are singing the solos. Come and hear these wonderful singers in these well-known solos. However, for the choruses, Covenant-First Music Director Yolanda Ortiz-Parker and the choir want you to help them! This is a sing-a-long, and you are invited to join in on the choruses. Scores will be provided, but if you have your own, please bring it! The evening will conclude with the Hallelujah Chorus. Invite your friends, singers or not. We want this to be a way to make music with singers from all around the area. And, if you are not a singer yourself, there will be more than enough singing to go around — plan to come, listen, and hear the Christmas story through song; you will certainly find yourself humming along at least occasionally! Three organists will share the accompaniment: Covenant-First Organist Andrew Hackett, CCM alumnae Dr. Stella O’Neill, and current CCM DMA student/Covenant-First Organ Scholar Christie Lee. Join us!

Free validated parking will be provided in the adjacent Park Place Parking garage.