Libor Dudas, D.M.A. is a native of Croatia. He began his musical studies in piano and, at the age of 8, gave his first organ recital in his hometown of Osijek, which led to performances in all the major cities of former Yugoslavia. A scholarship took him to Vienna, Austria, to study organ and church music where he performed not only in Vienna and Innsbruck but also throughout Bavaria and Italy. At the age of 20, Dr. Dudas presented an organ recital in the Thomaskirche, Bach’s church in Leipzig, Germany. After receiving his Diploma with Distinction, he furthered his studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was the first to receive a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Organ Performance.

Libor Dudas has studied with Rudolph Scholz, Craig Cramer, Gail Walton, William Porter, Darlene Catello and Edward Parmentier. He also studied harpsichord, fortepiano and organ with Peter Sykes and conducting with Jeffrey Rink, director of the Chorus Pro Musica. As a harpsichordist, Dr. Dudas has performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations in Boston and at the University of Notre Dame and has recorded Matthew Field’s Summer Mischief for harpsichord after performing the premier at MIT’s Killian Hall. As a forte pianist and organist, he has given numerous concerts throughout North America and Europe and is also active as a vocal coach and collaborative pianist. Recent recitals on the fortepiano have included programs of Mozart and Beethoven sonatas and variations. He has been featured in the chamber music series at the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, where Dr. Dudas has performed chamber works with singers and period instruments. In April 2000, he conducted Durufle’s Requiem and Four Motets with the Fine Arts Chorale for their spring concert performance. Since his appointment as permanent Musical Director, he has conducted the Chorale in works by Kodaly, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Poulenc, Langlais, Faure, Bernstein, Orff and Brahms and has directed the Chorale’s annual “Christmas Pops” concerts.Dr. Dudas serves as one of the vocal coaches for Crittenden’s summer opera workshop at the Boston Conservatory. In the summer of 2003, he was the pianist for the Chorus pro Musica Summer sing of Bach’s B-Minor Mass and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. In 2002, he performed in the prestigious organ concert series at Methuen’s concert hall, and has performed the chamber music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in the Albany’s Capitol Chamber Artists series. In the spring of 2004, Dr. Dudas dedicated the newly restored organ at the Tufts University Chapel with the premiere of an organ piece composed for the occasion by Tufts University professor of theory and composition John McDonald.

Libor Dudas is on the piano faculty of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School and of the Boston Conservatory of Music, and is Organist and Choir Director at Boston’s Old North Church where he has led the church’s chamber choir in performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass, Schubert’s Mass in G and Vaughan Williams’ First Noel.