Texas Bach Festival is delighted to present “Happy Birthday, Johann!” on our namesake’s birthday at 5:00 pm on March 21 featuring organist David Polley performing at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown.  This program of sumptuous organ repertoire will include works of Bach, Buxtehude, Georg Böhm and Vincent Lübeck.  This event is a virtual event and can be accessed by signing up for the Texas Bach Festival mailing list at this link, which will provide the YouTube and Facebook live-streamed links.

Featured Performer: David Polley, Organ

David Polley is an adjunct Professor of Organ at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX and currently serves as the Music Director of Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown.  He earned degrees from Concordia University, Seward NE; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.  He has served Lutheran, Catholic, and Methodist churches in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Texas.  He has performed as a featured recitalist in concerts in the Georgetown Festival of the Arts playing music of Schubert, Schumann, Saint-Saens, and Vierne as well as Scandinavian and Latin American composers.  His most recent invited recitals include the Church of the Heavenly Rest in Abilene, TX, St. Austin Catholic Church in Austin, TX, and Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Austin.