Schedule
Schedule Summary
This page contains a complete summary of all events for the 2026 ATOS Convention being hosted by the Rochester Theater Organ Society. For each item bolded below, there is a link to a page on this website with more information about that venue, instrument or artist.
Continuing his many years of appearing as the ATOS Convention Master of Ceramonies, the 2026 ATOS Convention programs will be introduced by Ken Double.
Monday, July 6 – Pre-glow + Convention Opening
- Optional Daytime-Pre-glow: Southern Tier Visitation
- Morning: Brett Valliant, Clemens Center, Elmira, NY (4/32 Marr & Colton/Wurlitzer)
- Afternoon: Lunch-Visit, Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY
- Return to Hotel, Dinner on your own (Area Eateries)
- Evening: Convention Opening Concert: Nathan Avakian, West Herr Auditorium Theatre (4/23 Wurlitzer)
- Late Night: Hammond Lounge (Hotel)
Tuesday, July 7 – Day for Youth
- ATOS Annual Meeting, Hotel Ballroom
- Technical Exchange: Hotel Ballroom
- Lunch: On Your Own (Area Eateries)
- Afternoon: Ben Forsthoffer, West Herr Auditorium Theatre (4/23 Wurlitzer)
- Return to Hotel Ballroom, ATOS Members’ Forum
- Cocktail Gathering (No-Host Cocktail party), Hotel,
- Dinner on your own (Area Eateries)
- Evening: Young Artists and Declan Poole, Rochester Museum Science Center, (3/12 Wurlitzer)
- Late Night: Hammond Lounge (Hotel)
Wednesday, July 8 – Buffalo Day
- Morning: Dave Wickerham, Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda (3/16 Wurlitzer)
- Lunch: Wurlitzer Factory, Lunch
- Afternoon: Aaron Hawthorne, Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda (3/16 Wurlitzer)
- Dinner/Awards Banquet: Classics V, Amherst, NY
- Evening: Richard Hills, Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo (4/28 Wurlitzer)
- Late Night: Hammond Lounge (Hotel)
Thursday, July 9 – Closing Day
- Free Time
- Lunch: On you own (Area Eaterie
- Afternoon Concert: Mark Herman, West Herr Auditorium Theatre, (4/23 Wurlitzer)
- Dinner: On your own (Area Eateries)
- Evening: Donnie Rankin, West Herr Auditorium Theatre, (4/23 Wurlitzer)
- Late Night: Hammond Lounge (Hotel)
Friday, July 10 – Daytime After-glow
Optional – After-glow
- Morning: David Peckham, Capitol Theatre, Rome NY, (3/7 Moller)
- Lunch: Barbagallo’s, Syracuse, NY
- Afternoon: David Marsh, ESMIM, State Fair Ground, Syracuse, NY (3/11 Wurlitzer)
- Late Night: Hammond Lounge (Hotel)