LEWISTON — The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on Ash St. will host a summer concert series that is free and open to the public. Donations to restore the Casavant Organ will be accepted.

At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20, organist Rudolf Innig will perform. Innig studied organ, piano, church music, music education, and musicology in Detmold, Cologne, and Paris. His teachers included Gaston Litaize and Michael Schneider (organ), Hans Martin Theopold and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr (piano), and Arno Forchert (musicology).

He was the recipient of a fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and a prizewinner in various competitions in the organ field. Concerts, recitals, and radio recordings have taken him to almost all the European countries and to North America, Russia, Japan, and Korea.

Innig’s numerous CD recordings with the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms, Franz Lachner, Felix Mendelssohn, Felix Nowowiejski, Robert Schumann, and Olivier Messiaen have been awarded various international recording prizes such as the Prize of the German Record Critics 1995, Cannes Classical Award 1998 with the Musica Alta Ripa ensemble, and Echo- Klassik Prize 1999.

After many years as the director of the Coesfeld Music School, the organist at the local Lutheran Marktkirche, and a faculty member at the Detmold College of Music, Innig has worked as a concertizing organist based in Bielefeld since 2011.