FAIRHOPE, Ala. — The St. James Concert series presents Stewart Wayne Foster, concert organist, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

There is no charge for the concert but a freewill offering will be taken.

Winner of the First Prize and Prize of the Audience at the first Dallas International Organ Competition and Organist in Residence at First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, Foster is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Stetson University.

He has taken prizes at several other competitions, including first honors at the William Hall Pipe Organ Competition in San Antonio in 1996.

In 1990 he competed for admission to the prestigious French conservatory L’Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique de Paris, winning one of two spaces available for the school year and later earning the coveted Diplôme de Concertiste and Premier Prix de Virtuosité.

He spent four years performing in France and working as assistant organist at the American Cathedral in Paris.

Foster will be playing works by Bach, Guilmant and Jongen.

St. James Episcopal Church is located at 860 N. Section St. in Fairhope.

For more information, call (251) 928-2912.