St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ladue offers a service of Organ Vespers Sunday, September 8, at 5:00 p.m. The guest organist for this service is the newly appointed Organist and Choirmaster Church of St. Michael and St. George, Clayton, Joseph Arndt.

Organ Vespers is an evening service gives praise to God through candlelight, chant, hymns, and organ music with sacred themes. The centerpiece of this Organ Vespers will be Mr. Arndt’s playing of the Archangel Suite by American composer Craig Philips.

All are welcome at this service. Ample parking is available in the lots surrounding the church. A reception follows.

Joseph Arndt began as Organist and Director of Music at The Church of St. Michael & St. George in August 2024. He previously served as Director of Music at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Tulsa, where he led the campaign for the 2018 chancel organ, Opus 173 by Schoenstein & Co. Mr. Arndt’s work in Tulsa included the 2019 founding of the Oklahoma Bach Choir, an ensemble dedicated to performing the sacred works of Johann Sebastian Bach with period instruments. He conducted a Leipzig 300 series commemorating the 300th anniversary of Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This series included a lecture by author and Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.

A graduate of The Juilliard School (MM) and Westminster Choir College (BM), he is a former organ student of Paul Jacobs, Ken Cowan, and Diane Meredith Belcher. To celebrate the bicentennial of César Franck, he performed the composer’s organ works with a tour including performances in Houston, Fort Worth, New York City, Seattle, Denver, and Tulsa. Additional recent solo recitals have been given at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Church of the Advent in Boston, and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. He has commissioned new organ works, most recently Paean by Rebecca Groom te Velde, published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. He has served as Chair of Fundraising for both the Association of Anglican Musicians and the Dallas Boys Course of the Royal School of Church Music-America.