Karen Beaumont

Karen Beaumont playing the organ

Karen Beaumont keeps a relatively low profile in Milwaukee, but her music is being heard around the world. Beaumont’s 2020 album, Noels , was released by Pro Organo, a classical music label. Since my last article about her, in 2023, “my compositions have been performed, to my knowledge, in 23 countries,” Beaumont says. Organ is her primary instrument, but she has also composed for choir, piano and violin.

This month, she will begin a series of Sunday afternoon organ recitals at St. Hedwig Church. She is familiar with the East Side sanctuary, having performed there (and at a variety of other Milwaukee churches) as organist on Sunday mornings. Her October 19 performance features organ music by living composers: the American Carson Cooman,

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