Karen Black, Wartburg College’s Rudi Inselmann Endowed Professor of Organ, will be featured at the college’s first Bach’s Lunch organ series recital of 2023 on Friday, Feb. 10.

The concert will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Wartburg Chapel. It will be preceded by a noon lunch and conversation with Black in the Chapel Commons. The program will feature music by Dieterich Buxtehude, Alice Jordan and Craig Phillips.

Black teaches organ and church music, music theory and aural skills; serves as organist for weekday chapel; and conducts the Kantorei choral ensemble and the Wartburg Handbell Choir. She also recently served as the North Central Regional Councillor of the American Guild of Organists.

She is an active recitalist and clinician and has performed throughout the United States and in Germany. Black has served as dean of the Cedar Valley Chapter of the AGO and Region III president of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She also is an active member of the Organ Historical Society and ACDA.

She has been heard on the nationally broadcast “Pipedreams” program. Her essay “J. S. Bach as Theologian-Musician” appears in “Together By Grace: Introducing the Lutherans.”

Black has published organ and choral arrangements with Augsburg Fortress and Morningstar Music, including a collection of organ hymn introductions, “Shine Like the Sun.” In 2021 she released an organ album, “Ein feste Burg,” on the ARSIS label, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the installation of the Wartburg College Chapel Dobson organ.