Charles Ruggles Pipe Organs - Awards and Reviews

Awards & Reviews

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Charles received the 2002 Artist Fellowship Award from the Colorado Council on the Arts. To read the award letter, click here

Charles Ruggles at Opus 31
for Denise Lanning,
Denver, Colorado

"Charles Ruggles is the subject of a recent thesis on his career, written by Mark A. Herris as part of the requirements for Herris’s Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20810). Ruggles recently celebrated 42 years of designing and building mechanical-action organs. Ruggles’s work has been reviewed in numerous magazines and journals..." (from The Diapason, Demember 2017. For full article, click here.) To read Mark A. Herris' full Doctoral Thesis, "A Profile of Charles M. Ruggles, Builder of Hand-Crafted Mechanical Action Organs," click here.

Birmingham United Methodist Church, Opus 9, featured in The American Organist, September 1984

Calvary United Methodist Church, Opus 24, featured in The American Organist, October 1994

Featured in Colorado Homes & Lifestyles Magazine, May 2002

Susquehanna University Organ, Opus 27, featured in Music at Susquehanna, Winter 1997

Lakewood Presbyterian Church, Opus 29, cover feature in The Diapason, February 2001

St. Timothy's Espicopal Church, Opus 23, cover feature in The Diapason, January, 1995

Dedication of Calvary United Methodist Church, Opus 24, April 17, 1994

Dedication of Hillsborough Reformed Church at Millstone, Opus 22, April 7, 1991