Paul Jacobs is the chairman of the organ department at the Julliard School. (Submitted by St. Paul's Choir School).

Three accomplished American organists -- Paul Jacobs, Todd Wilson and Janette Fishell -- will be traveling to Indiana from the East in the near future. Two of them intend to stay a while.

Jacobs, chairman of the Juilliard School's organ department in New York City, will make his Indianapolis debut on April 18 with a recital at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Jacobs, 31, has been known as a concert organist for years. He seems to be especially fond of playing musical marathons.

In several U.S. cities, he has played the complete organ works of 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen. In 2000, Jacobs spent 18 hours playing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Pittsburgh, in observance of the 250th anniversary of the composer's death.

In Indianapolis, Jacobs will mix it up a bit. On the recently installed, $1.5 million Casavant Freres organ at St. Paul's, he will perform John Weaver's "Fantasia for Organ," Cesar Franck's "Prelude, Fugue et Variation," Leo Sowerby's "Pageant," Felix Mendelssohn's Sonata in F minor, and Max Reger's "Fantasia and Fugue on BACH."

St. Paul's is at 6050 N. Meridian St. The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. For more details, call (317) 253-1277.

Meanwhile, Wilson and Fishell will begin teaching at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington this fall. They will replace Marilyn Keiser and Larry Smith, who will retire this year.

"With two out of the three organ professors being new," Wilson said, "it will be sort of a new day in the organ department at IU."

Wilson, 53, has been an internationally known concert and recording artist for nearly 30 years. The Toledo, Ohio, native has released nearly 20 recordings. Since 2001, he has been teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Music and performing with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Fishell, 49, is a native of Rushville. She teaches at the East Carolina University School of Music in Greenville, N.C. She has bachelor's and master's degrees from IU and a doctorate from Northwestern University. She has recorded solo works and duets with her husband, British organist Colin Andrews.