THOMAS WEISFLOG
University organist at Rockefeller Chapel since October 2000, Thomas Weisflog also serves as organist/director of music at Hyde Park’s Church of St. Thomas the Apostle and organist at Temple KAM-Isaiah-Israel. Having accompanied the William Ferris Chorale for over twenty-five years, he now serves as their artist-in-residence.
Weisflog studied with Gavin Williamson and Edward Mondello in Chicago and with Norman Peterson at the Eastman School of Music. He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony and Chorus, and Italy’s Orchestra Sinfonica di Bolzano e Trento. In the European arena, Weisflog made his debut at the 1986 Aldeburgh Festival and concretized in Berlin at the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde (1992). This past June, he appeared along with organist Walter Whitehouse and James Kallembach, conducting the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Motet Choir, University Singers, and University Chorus, in the gala unveiling of the chapel’s newly-rebuilt E.M. Skinner organ. Weisflog’s recordings appear on the Meridian, New World, and Vox labels.
