Dr. Libor Dudas has served as Old North’s Director of Music since 1998. A native of Croatia, he began musical studies in piano at the age of 8. At 14, he gave his first organ recital in his hometown of Osijek, which led to performances in all major cities of the former Yugoslavia.

A scholarship took him to Vienna to study organ and church music. He performed not only in Vienna and Innsbruck in Austria, but also throughout Bavaria and Italy. At the age of 20, Dr. Dudas presented an organ recital in the Thomaskirche, J. S. Bach’s church in Leipzig, Germany.

After receiving his undergraduate Diploma with Distinction at Vienna’s Hochschule für Music und darstellende Kunst, he furthered his studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana with a Master’s in Music, and at the New England Conservatory of Music where he received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Organ Performance.

In addition to his appointment at Old North Church, Dr. Dudas teaches harpsichord, organ, piano, and vocal studies as senior faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge. He regularly performs across New England, New York, and in Europe, including a recent summer residency in Berlin, Germany. His recording of Edward Elgar’s “Vesper Voluntaries” can be heard on the CD “Historic Organs of Boston” published by the Organ Historical Society.

An avid animal lover, Dr. Dudas is also a regular volunteer at the Franklin Park Zoo. He returns to Croatia and Germany for annual summer holidays.