RANGELEY — The Church of the Good Shepherd will host an organ concert by Ray Cornils at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30. Donations accepted at the door.

Cornils is the municipal organist (www.foko.org) for the City of Portland, a post which he has held since 1990. He presides over America’s first municipal organ, (101 ranks and five manuals) built in 1912 and enlarged in 1927 and 2003 by the Austin Organ Company. It was donated to Portland by publishing magnate Cyrus H.K. Curtis in memory of his childhood music teacher Hermann Kotzschmar.

For the past 24 years, Cornils has served First Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick as Minister of Music where he leads an extensive music program of five vocal and two handbell choirs. Additionally he is a member of the music faculties of Bowdoin College, the University of Southern Maine and the Portland Conservatory of Music, where he teaches organ, harpsichord and related classes.

Born in Sterling, Ill., Cornils received the Bachelor’s in Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the Masters Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has studied organ with Robert Reeves, Fenner Douglas, William Porter, Yuko Hayashi and Dame Gillian Weir, and harpsichord with William Porter, Lenora McCroskey, Rhona Freeman and Lisa Goode Crawford.

Cornils has concertized throughout the United States and in Germany, France, Spain, Russia, New Zealand and Ecuador. Recent concerts have included the famed Wanamaker Organ at Philadelphia’s Macy’s Store, the Spreckles Organ in San Diego’s Balboa Park, and the International Festival of Sacred Music in Quito Ecuador. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. In addition to his solo work, he performs regularly with the Portland Symphony Orchestra (including soloist in several concertos such as Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva, all six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and Poulenc’s Concerto Champetre). Next May he will perform Saint Saens’ Organ Symphony and Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante with the PSO.

This event is being held as part of the weekend festivities at the Church of the Good Shepherd. The Vestry is hosting a Halloween dinner and silent auction (money is being targeted to go to the Lakeside Entrance Roof Project) on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. Menu includes roast pork, mashed potatoes with gravy, buttercup squash and apple cake. Silent auction items will be auctioned off at 6 p.m. following the Halloween dinner. Everyone is invited to both the Saturday and Sunday events.