Thanks to the generosity of anonymous parishioners, St. Catherine of Siena was able to purchase and install a new organ in the Church in February of 2024. A committee considered several proposals and selected the Church Organ Group to build and install a new Allen Genesys GX-350. This is a digital organ with three ranks and fifty stops and has state-or-the-art technology, which gives our organists lots of options for sounds, settings, and programming. The new organ was installed in the choir loft where the original organ was located when the church was built in 1957. It is sure to serve our parish liturgies for generations.

Robert Knupp

 
Robert Knupp is a Professor in the music department at Mississippi College, located in Clinton.  His area of primary teaching is applied organ and organ area classes.  He is also the organist of Galloway United Methodist Church in Jackson.
 
Dr. Knupp’s students have won state competitions of the AGO and MTNA, have garnered praise at regional and national competitions, and awarded full teaching assistantships at major universities, and fellowships to national organist conventions. The studio also takes an annual tour to locations such as New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Nashville, and Washington D.C.  
 
An active performer, Knupp has performed with the several symphony orchestras, AGO regional conventions, and has been heard nationally on the program “Pipedreams.”  He has performed in twenty-nine states and in Europe.  Significant performance venues include the Washington National Cathedral, St. Thomas Church and St. Mary’s in New York City, St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, King’s Chapel in Boston, The Old Church concert hall in Portland Oregon, Church of the Ascension in Seattle, Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster PA, National City Christian Church in Washington DC, and St Peter’s Cathedral in Jackson MS.  During the summer of 2015, Knupp embarked on a five-week historic organ tour of central Germany with concerts on Silbermann Organs in Forchheim and Frieburg, and on the Max Reger Organ in Bad Salzungen.   In 2024 he accompanied the 80^th Anniversary D-Day Memorial Concert’s Duruflé Requiem in the Abbey of Saint Étienne in Caen, France and recitals at Chester Cathedral and St. Brides Fleet Street (London, U.K.)
 
Knupp is a native of Johnstown, PA, and holds degrees from the University of Alabama (D.M.A.), East Carolina University (M.M.), and Susquehanna University (B.M.)   Primary mentors include the late Warren Hutton, Janette Fishell, and Susan Hegberg.