Organ Recital: Benjamin Kolodziej (Dallas, Texas)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia & Fugue in G major, BWV 572

Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1931)
Passacaglia, Opus 132, No. 8

Benjamin Kolodziej
Variations on PICARDY
     1. Introduction and Theme
     2. Chorale
     3. Canon
     4. Trio
     5. Finale


Benjamin Kolodziej is the Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, where he also serves as Chapel Organist at Southern Methodist University. He is also Director of Programs for Church Music Institute of Dallas.

He holds an undergraduate degree in organ performance from SMU, as well as graduate degrees in theology and sacred music, his primary organ teachers having been Robert Anderson, Larry Palmer, Richard DeLong, and George Baker.  He is a frequent organist for hymn festivals and organ concerts, having performed many times in the UK as well as in Germany, Austria, Norway, Italy and Switzerland. He was recently appointed the Carl Schalk Scholar in Church Music at Concordia University in Chicago.

Mr. Kolodziej has published articles in The Chorister, Concordia Theological Quarterly, The Hymn, Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, The American Organist, Theatre Organ, The Diapason, Methodist History, The Tracker, and the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, among others. In addition to having contributed to the forthcoming Lutheran Service Book Hymnal Companion, his chapter entitled “Organ Music in the Liturgy in the Twentieth Century” was published by Routledge in 2011 in Twentieth-Century Organ Music, a Festschrift honouring Robert T. Anderson. His organ music is published by Concordia, Augsburg, and GIA. He currently serves as co-chair of the 2019 Organ Historical Society convention in Dallas, and is also active in the American Guild of Organists.