Kyle Johnson

THOUSAND OAKS, CA - A series celebrating the 20th anniversary of California Lutheran University’s unique Steiner-Reck pipe organ will continue with a faculty recital at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in Samuelson Chapel.

University organist Kyle Johnson will perform in the second concert of the Orvil and Gloria Franzen 2011-2012 Organ Program Series. The program will include two pieces that organist Marilyn Mason played at the dedication of the Borg Petersen Memorial Organ 20 years ago. They are “Flourish and Chorale” by Michael McCabe and a movement from Jean Langlais’ “Hommage à Frescobaldi” titled “Epilogue.” Johnson will also play works by M. Searle Wright, Johann Sebastian Bach, Louis Vierne and Leo Sowerby.

Johnson is also coordinator of chapel music and a lecturer in the music department at CLU. He previously served as director of music and community arts at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square in Chicago, where he oversaw the church’s efforts to be a center for community building through the arts.

He holds a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, where he studied with John Ditto. He also holds music degrees from Indiana University and Bethany College in Kansas.

Donations will be accepted at the free concert. A reception will be held in the chapel narthex following the recital.

The chapel is located south of Olsen Road near Campus Drive on the Thousand Oaks campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit http://www.callutheran.edu.