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Excerpts from currently available repertoire for organ, presented by Jonathan Rudy.

Bio:

Jonathan Rudy, a native of Batavia, Ill., is proud to follow a sacred music vocation. He regularly appears in locations across the United States, including at the American Guild of Organists (AGO) National Convention in Houston, the 2017 Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) National Conference, as well as with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Rudy was awarded First and Audience Prizes in the 2014 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. He has also received awards and recognitions in the National Organ Playing Competition in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the Regional Competition for Young Organists in 2011, amongst others. Dr. Rudy received his Doctorate in Organ and Sacred Music at Indiana University, studying with Janette Fishell and Bruce Neswick. His prior degrees are from Indiana and Valparaiso Universities (studying with Lorraine Brugh and Karel Paukert). He studied in high school with Karl Bruhn and his mother, Melinda J. Rudy. Jonathan D. Rudy currently serves as cantor/director of music at Grace Lutheran Church, Clarksville, Tenn., where he leads the congregation and musical ensembles in song, and where he lives with his beautiful wife, Katie, and their two children.

This session recording is from the 2024 LCMS Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music held July 9–12, 2024 in Seward, Neb. For more information on the Institute, please visit https://resources.lcms.org/worship-planning/2024-institute-on-liturgy-preaching-and-church-music-resources.

Morning Prayer Venite from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. Setting by Paul Soulek.

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s (LCMS) Worship ministry aims to nurture a culture of confessional faithfulness, artistic excellence and integrity in the presentation, distribution and reception of God’s life-giving gifts in Word and Sacraments. This ministry seeks to develop and deepen an understanding and love for the Lutheran heritage in Christian worship, and promotes the Lutheran Service Book as the core worship resource for the LCMS while also identifying and encouraging the many musical treasures and gifts that the Holy Spirit continues to pour upon the church. For more information: lcms.org/worship/institutes; lcms.org/worship.

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