Charles Callahan is one of America’s leading organist-composers. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Catholic University of America. Well-known as an improvisateur, he made his debut in this realm at the International Eucharistic Congress in 1976.

He has collaborated with many of this country’s leading conductors as both a composer and organist and has worked with noted stage and screen personalities in both theatre and the concert hall. Orchestras, choirs, chamber music ensembles and soloists all over the world have performed compositions by Dr. Callahan. He has been commissioned to compose music twice by Harvard University.

In recognition of this service to the church and his commissioned compositions for Papal visits to the United States, in 1999 he was awarded the Papal Honor of Knighthood in the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Currently Dr. Callahan serves as Director of Music of the Church of the Holy Family, the Roman Catholic Parish serving the community of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Dr. Callahan is published by Morning Star Music Publishers. Dr. Callahan will be performing on St. Michael’s new 4-Manual, 5-division, 39-rank pipe organ (which includes many digital solo stops of the type that he often calls for in his compositions).

St Michael Catholic Church

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