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2023 Summer Organ Recital Series – Adam Chlebek
August 20, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Join the Basilica for the eighth performance in our 2023 Summer Organ Recital Series on August 20 at 6:00 PM in the Great Upper Church. Adam Chlebek of Lakewood, Ohio will perform.
Adam Chlebek
Adam Chlebek is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Jonathan Moyer. A Polish-American from Chicago, IL, he earned second prize at the 2022 Taylor Organ Competition and has performed throughout the United States and Poland. Chlebek has participated in masterclasses with organists Janette Fishell, William Porter, and Arvid Gast. In 2022, he served as the Sacred Music Intern at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
At Oberlin, he also focused on choral singing and conducting. He sang in the Oberlin Musical Union, under the direction of Gregory Ristow, and Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Steven Plank and has studied choral conducting with Jodi Kerchner and Ben Johns.
Adam is an avid jazz pianist; he has participated in Oberlin’s Performance and Improvisation Ensemble, where he has performed with Jamey Haddad, Jay Ashby, and Becca Stevens. He is also the keyboardist for The Surrealists, a psych-rock band based in Evanston, IL.
Adam will begin graduate studies in the fall of 2023 at the Eastman School of Music, where he will study with Nathan Laube.
