Pianist and organist Michael Tsalka brought the sounds of the Dutch Baroque, Red China, and modern Mexico to Wareham, performing a piano and organ recital at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Sunday.

"I love it here, the audience is lovely," Tsalka, a professor at the Superior School of Music in Mexico City and international performer, said after the concert. "I always try to fit it in when I'm in the area."

The recital marks Tsalka's third performance at the church. While earning his doctorate at Temple University, Tsalka was introduced to the church's concert series by a friend, and he thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to stay with the concert's organizer, Jean Nyman, at her family's home and practice on her Baldwin piano.

"I'm the best listener in the world," Nyman jokes. Her husband, the late Daniel Nyman, was a jazz pianist in addition to a local attorney, and all of her children are musical - In fact, they will be performing next month in a benefit concert in memory of their father.  Jean Nyman said that she was good at "coordinating" not playing music, and so she has been managing the concert series - which ranges from performances of classical instrumental music to vocal performances of Broadway and popular songs - for 20 of its 25 years.

"We've been very fortunate...we don't pay them very much!" Nyman said.

Tsalka didn't mind. He spends five months a year traveling, performing and giving lectures, and he is glad to have a familiar place to visit and practice when he is on the road. He is next performing in Philadelphia, and he then heads to Rhode Island for five days of rehearsals on a new chamber piece that he will be premiering.  He leaves for an international tour next month that will take him to every continent but Africa. Sunday's audience was excited to learn that Tsalka is scheduled to return next year with a violinist.

"We have Boston and New York quality musicians performing in Wareham," parishoner and ticket-counter-manager Richard Ellis said. "It's a shame folks don't know to take advantage of it."