Join us for an Organ and Violin Concert - February 1, 2026

Music at Christ Church presents an organ and violin concert featuring Charles Tompkins, organ, and Gregory Tompkins, violin. The program takes place Sunday afternoon February 1, 2026 at 3 p.m. Admission at the door is $20; $10 for students and seniors. A reception follows the concert in the Parish Hall.

The program features Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata in A Major, Opus 65, No. 3; movements from Jean Langlais’ Cinq Pièces, Opus 180 for violin and organ; Georg Philip Telemann’s Fantasia No. 7 in E-flat for Solo Violin; J. S. Bach’s Toccata in F Major, BWV 540; Carl Rütti’s Pavane for violin and organ; and Florence Price’s Adoration and the “Finale” from Organ Sonata No. 1.

CHARLES TOMPKINS is Distinguished University Organist and Professor of Music Emeritus at Furman University, Greenville, SC where he taught organ, harpsichord, church music, and music theory from 1986-2022 and oversaw the design and installation of the Hartness Organ (C.B. Fisk, Opus 121, 2004) in the Charles E. Daniel

Memorial Chapel. Tompkins continues his work at Furman as organ accompanist for the school’s outstanding choral ensembles, director of the Hartness Organ Recital Series, and organist for University academic events. Tompkins is also Organist of First Baptist Church and Artist in Residence for Christ Church (Episcopal), both in

Greenville, South Carolina.

Violinist GREGORY TOMPKINS regularly performs in solo, chamber and orchestral settings throughout the United States. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Tompkins is a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and serves as principal second violin for Orchestra New England. He frequently appears in recital with his father, organist Charles Tompkins. As a duo they have performed in venues including Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.