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Benjamin Kolodziej is Chapel Organist at
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, where
he has served as an adjunct lecturer in sacred
music at Perkins School of Theology and where he
plays organ for 150 weddings, memorials, and
civic events a year at the historic Perkins
Chapel. He also serves as Organist and Director
of Worship at Lord of Life Lutheran Church,
Plano, TX.
Mr Kolodziej holds Master of Sacred Music and
Master of Theological Studies degrees from
Perkins School of Theology, SMU, where he
studied organ with Robert Anderson, George
Baker, and Larry Palmer. He won first place in
the Dallas AGO Young Organist Competition and
was awarded the hymn playing prize at the
William B Hall Organ Competition. He is a
frequent organist for hymn festivals and organ
concerts, having performed many times in the UK,
in Germany, throughout Texas and on the east
coast including at the historic Bruton Parish
Church in Williamsburg, VA, as well as at
Washington National Cathedral. During the
2007-2008 season, he performed solo concerts in
Dallas, London, Tulsa, San Antonio, Texarkana
and Austin.
Mr Kolodziej has published articles in
The Chorister, Concordia Theological
Quarterly, The Hymn, Concordia
Historical Institute Quarterly, The
American Organist
and
Methodist History,
and maintains a scholarly interest in Lutheran
liturgical, hymnological and theological history
and practices. His collection of several
thousand books and manuscripts dates from the
Middle Ages but specializes in the
Gesangbűcher
(hymnals) of the Lutheran Church and the
devotional works of Isaac Watts.
The Holy Trinity
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