2026 Summer Organ Recital Series: Peter Latona

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Join the Basilica for the eighth performance in our 2026 Summer Organ Recital Series on August 23 at 6:00 p.m. in the Great Upper Church. Peter Latona of Washington, D.C., the Director of Music at the Basilica, will perform. Peter Latona Peter Latona (b.1968) is the Director of Music for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., the preeminent Marian shrine of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Recognized as a conductor, composer, organist, improviser and teacher, he is dedicated to providing the highest standard in sacred music within the context of the Roman Catholic Liturgy. An award-winning organist, Dr. Latona has performed throughout the United States, Europe and the Holy Land, has presented workshops on improvisation, and has released a recording, An Organ Pilgrimage, on the Raven label, featuring all four pipe organs at the Basilica. In 2012, he performed to an audience of 1,000, having been invited as a featured artist for the Festspiele Europäische Wochen in Passau, Germany. As the conductor of the Choir of the Basilica, he has released numerous recordings of sacred choral music and presented concerts in the United States and abroad, performing nationally for the American Guild of Organists, National Pastoral Musicians Association, Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedrals, Church Music Association of America and internationally as a featured conductor in the Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra. Among his recently completed recording projects are Tu es Petrus: A Papal Tribute in Music, which commemorates the Papacy of Pope Benedict XVI and celebrates the Petrine ministry of Pope Francis, and Te Deum: The Sacred Music of Peter Latona, which was commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and features many of the works composed by Dr. Latona for the National Shrine. Dr. Latona’s compositions are published by Morningstar Music Publishers as well as Canticanova Publications and G.I.A. His…