The resident organist at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University & Christ Lutheran Church, Baltimore, performs an assortment of Bach’s organ works.

We gather and pray…
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731

Come, Holy Spirit…
Fantasia super ‘Komm, Heiliger Geist’, BWV 651 

Into our longing world…
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537  

 Send a Savior…
Three Settings of ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ 
I. à 2 claviers et pédale, BWV 659
II. a due bassi e canto fermo, BWV 660
III. in organo pleno il canto fermo nel pedale, BWV 661 

 To reconcile…
O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 1095  

 And sustain us…
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654  

Until the last day.
Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542

Daniel Aune is lecturer and organ instructor at Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and since 2011 director of music and organist at Christ Lutheran Church (Inner Harbor), Baltimore. At Christ Church he leads the choral and instrumental programs, as well as the Hafenmusik concert series. Aune holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with David Higgs. Previous degrees at Eastman include a Master of Music degree in organ with David Higgs, a Master of Music degree in harpsichord with William Porter, and the Sacred Music Diploma. Additional studies included improvisation with William Porter and a doctoral minor in composition. He began his undergraduate studies with Peter Nygaard at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where he also had the privilege of singing in The Concordia Choir and studying choral conducting with René Clausen.

Aune has been published in the Eastman Organ Book and has also composed choral anthems and hymn arrangements for organ, brass, and choir. He has performed in classes led by Harold Vogel, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Ludger Lohmann, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry, Todd Wilson, Joan Lippincott, and Cherry Rhodes. His competition credits include first prize in both the Rodland Memorial Scholarship Competition and the San Marino Competition, second place in the Arthur Poister Competition, and a semi-finalist in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance which is sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. Aune also was awarded the first-ever Lecture-Recital Prize at Eastman for his thesis “Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig Chorales: New Thoughts on Their Development and Function.”

Firmly believing in giving back to the music community, he is dean of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), vice-president for Region I of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and director of the national Task Force on Denominational Music Organizations for the AGO. He has been heard in recitals and hymn festivals across the United States.