Jeffrey Blersch

Jeffrey Blersch has been an organist since Peace Lutheran Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, appointed him at the young age of 8. Jeffrey decided to pursue his musical gifts as an organist and majored in organ performance and music education at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned his doctorate in musical arts and organ performance. Currently, he is an associate professor of music and the university organist at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska, where he teaches all things organ. He is a working church musician and serves as organist and choral director for Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Staplehurst, Nebraska, but he still performs across the United States as a recitalist and a guest organist at hymn festivals. Inspired by his strong background in music, Jeffrey composes numerous organ and choral works with more than one hundred of his pieces published through Concordia Publishing House. His wife, Carla, is also an organist, and together they have three children: Aaron, Ryan, and Jenna.