2025 Summer Organ Recital Series: Adam Chlebek

Join us as we kick off the 2025 Organ Recital Series and welcome a new assistant organist! In this first recital of the 2025 Summer Organ Recital Series, we are delighted to welcome our new Assistant Director of Music, Adam Chlebek, who will be performing on July 6 at 6:00 p.m. ET in the Great Upper Church.

Note: this concert will be livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass.

Program:

Fanfare – John Cook (1918–1984)

Concerto in D minor, BWV 596, after Vivaldi – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

    […]

    Grave

    Fuga

    Largo e spiccato

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Choral No. 1 in E major – César Franck (1822–1890)

Suite Brève (1947) – Jean Langlais (1907–1991)

    II. Cantilène

Psalm Prelude, Set 2 No. 1 (De Profundis) – Herbert Howells (1892–1983)

Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, op. 7 – Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)

Adam Chlebek

Adam Chlebek serves as the Assistant Director of Music at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. A Polish-American from Chicago, IL, he completed his Master of Music in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Nathan Laube. He earned second prize at the 2022 Taylor Organ Competition and was a finalist in the 2024 Elizabeth Stephens International Organ Competition. Adam has performed throughout the United States and Poland and has participated in masterclasses with organists Janette Fishell, William Porter, and Arvid Gast. In 2022, he served as the first Sacred Music Intern at the Basilica.

Adam is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance with Jonathan Moyer; there, 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 studied choral conducting with Jodi Kerchner and Ben Johns. Adam likewise participated as a jazz pianist in Oberlin’s Performance and Improvisation Ensemble, performing with Jamey Haddad, Jay Ashby, and Becca Stevens, among others.

As a Catholic musician, Adam previously served as the Director of Music at St. Thomas More Parish in Rochester, New York, and St. James Parish in Lakewood, Ohio, and sang in the acclaimed Christ Church Schola Cantorum, under the direction of Stephen Kennedy.