Grades: 8 - 12
Date: June 20-26, 2027
Registration opens mid-February 2027
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The Summer Organ Camp at the Baylor School of Music provides an exciting opportunity for talented young organists. An intensive week of study and varied musical experience is offered within the college environment of the Baylor campus. Students are housed in supervised dormitories and have the use of University practice and recreational facilities, including Baylor’s large collection of organs.
The Summer Organ Camp is open to rising 8th-12th graders. Musical activities for the week include private lessons, master classes and lecture-demonstrations with members of the Baylor organ faculty and guest organists, piano, harpsichord, service playing and organ building classes, videos of famous artists, regular practice periods on the organs on campus, and student and faculty recitals.
Cost
Residential tuition (includes room and board* for 6 days/nights) is $680.
* meals begin with dinner on Sunday night and end with breakfast on Saturday morning.
Commuter tuition (includes lunch M-F) is $490.
New this year: Camp t-shirts are now included in this price rather than being an additional optional purchase!
Registration
Return the registration and send a letter of recommendation from your teacher to jens_korndoerfer@baylor.edu prior to May 8.
Summer Organ Camp Faculty
Primary Faculty
Jens Korndörfer, D.Mus. Associate Professor of Organ
German organist Dr. Jens Korndörfer is Associate Professor of Organ at Baylor University. Praised as “a virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition” who creates “performances that are deeply musically satisfying as well as exciting” (The American Organist), Korndörfer is regularly invited at the most prestigious venues and festivals around the world.
A top-honor graduate from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Musikhochschule in Bayreuth, and McGill University in Montreal, Korndörfer’s teachers include Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, James David Christie, and Ludger Lohmann. Prior to his appointment at Baylor University, he was Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta - where he also directed a highly successful concert series -, and taught at Georgia State University. Korndörfer recently founded the National High School Organ Competition at Baylor University.
https://www.jenskorndoerfer.com
Joseph Ripka, M.M., Canon Precentor and Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oklahoma City, OK
Guest Clinicians
Julia Dokter, D.Mus., Ph.D. - Harpsichord
Julia Dokter's specialty is early music, especially German baroque keyboard music, a subject on which she has published a number of articles and a book. While she loves "hard-core" research and performance, she also adores introducing students to the sometimes astonishingly different way baroque musicians made music compared to what is currently the norm.
John Wolf - Organ Builder
John Wolf is the owner and manager of Wolf Pipe Organs based in Fort Worth, TX. This firm does tuning and maintenance on over 100 organs including the organs at Baylor University. John has been involved in pipe organ building and maintenance for over 35 years. He is also a church organist and currently plays at St Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Fort Worth.