Trinity†St. Peter’s continues our First Sundays Organ Recital Series by welcoming organist Jerome Lenk, Director of Music and Liturgy at Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco, whose work as a conductor, vocal coach, accompanist, pianist, and organist spans multiple genres and performing organizations. His duties at Mission Dolores Basilica, in addition to being Principal Organist, include administration of a music program of two choirs, providing musical support for regular weekend liturgies and all major feasts, coordinating and developing cantors, and conducting the Basilica Choir in major concerts each year, as well as coordinating the Basilica organ recitals and guest concert series. He actively composes and arranges primarily liturgical music for the Basilica and has written several psalms and mass settings. Mr. Lenk conducts the Basilica Choir in their ever-popular annual Candlelight Christmas Concerts, is active as a recitalist and accompanist, and maintains a private coaching studio.

He has performed recitals and conducted the outstanding Basilica Choir in California, Mexico, and Italy. His extensive experience as an accompanist includes appearances with the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Western Opera Theatre, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, CappellaSF, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, San José Symphony, Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Concert Chorale, San Francisco Lyric Chorus, The Choral Project of San José, and the Valley Concert Chorale. He has also collaborated with Robert Shaw, Eugene Butler, and Jörg Demus.

Experienced as a vocal coach and conductor, his credits include Opera on Tap, the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Opera San José, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, San José State University Opera Workshop, and The University of Iowa. Mr. Lenk can be heard on recordings with the Basilica Choir, the San Francisco Concert Chorale, the San Francisco Lyric Chorus, The Choral Project of San José, and on a solo recording of organ music recorded at Mission Dolores. Additionally, he has developed a YouTube channel presenting a variety of selections from both the organ and piano repertoire.

Among the composers whose works will be performed on February 4th are Bach, Purcell, Franck, and Guilmant. Experience the thrill of hearing our historic E.M. Skinner symphonic organ in the transcendent space for which it was built in 1924.