James Loeffler
WOMEN'S YOUTH CHORUS & PRELUDE CHORUS PIANIST
Jim Loeffler joined CCGD in 2011 as accompanist for the Women’s Youth Chorus. In 2018, he began accompanying Prelude Chorus as well. Mr. Loeffler is the Director of Worship and Music at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Plano, Texas. He is Assistant Director, accompanist, and tenor with The Texas Voices and regularly plays for student musicians throughout the Plano and Allen Independent School Districts.
Jim has sung with the Orpheus Chamber Singers and the Choral Arts Society of Washington where he sang under such notable conductors as Robert Shaw, Christopher Hogwood, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Termikanov, Eiji Oue, composer John Adams, and vocalist Bobby McFerrin, in venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He has published seven sets of organ variations with Darcey Press in the collection 83 Musical Gifts, and has composed other works for organ, choir, brass, handbells, and children's voices, as well as commissions.
Mr. Loeffler earned the Bachelor Music degree in Church Music from Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN) and the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Illinois. Mr. Loeffler's musical studies include the following: organ with Pamela Johnson, Douglas Reed, and Martin Jean; harpsichord with William Eifrig and William Heiles; conducting with Fred Stolzfus, Chester Alwes, Dennis Friesen-Carper, and Eldon Balko; and jazz with Billy Foster. His professional affiliations include the American Guild of Organists where he earned the Fellow's Certificate (F.A.G.O.), the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and Texas Music Educators Association.
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Jim has sung with the Orpheus Chamber Singers and the Choral Arts Society of Washington where he sang under such notable conductors as Robert Shaw, Christopher Hogwood, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Termikanov, Eiji Oue, composer John Adams, and vocalist Bobby McFerrin, in venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He has published seven sets of organ variations with Darcey Press in the collection 83 Musical Gifts, and has composed other works for organ, choir, brass, handbells, and children's voices, as well as commissions.
Mr. Loeffler earned the Bachelor Music degree in Church Music from Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN) and the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Illinois. Mr. Loeffler's musical studies include the following: organ with Pamela Johnson, Douglas Reed, and Martin Jean; harpsichord with William Eifrig and William Heiles; conducting with Fred Stolzfus, Chester Alwes, Dennis Friesen-Carper, and Eldon Balko; and jazz with Billy Foster. His professional affiliations include the American Guild of Organists where he earned the Fellow's Certificate (F.A.G.O.), the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and Texas Music Educators Association.
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