Peter Kurdziel has been the Director of Music at the Basilica since August 2010. He
earned degrees in organ performance from Hope College where he was a student of Huw
Lewis and the University of Notre Dame where he was a student of Craig Cramer. He
received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
where he was a student of Dana Robinson. In addition to the organ, Peter has also
studied voice, conducting, harpsichord, and theology at the graduate level. He is
the past dean of the Grand Rapids and Muskegon -Lakeshore Chapters of the American
Guild of Organists. He has also served on the executive boards of the Grand Rapids
Chapter of the National Pastoral Musicians and the West Michigan Symphony.
