Thomas Pavlechko

"2002 Emerging Hymn Tune Composer"

Hymn Society in the United States and Canada

• Between the years 2000 and 2006, Pavlechko published two hymn collections, a three-year Psalter, seven choral anthems, two hymn concertatos, and a Te Deum, then opened his own business, E-Libris Publishers, a Practically Paperless Music Company. Also within this time, the Churchwide Offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America appointed him to serve on the Liturgical Music Editorial Team to assist in choosing the liturgical music for the new hymnal, a worship resource which also includes his own liturgical music settings and hymns.

 Pavlechko was recognized at the Hymn Society's Convention in July 2002

• His sacred music compositions are in print throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. And, with Carl P. Daw, he is co-editing a new worship planning resource, Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, published fall 2007 by Church Publishing.

• In the fall of 2007, he spent a week as the Guest Composer-in-Residence at Bethany Lutheran College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where he taught composition and performed a concert of his works along with those of his students.

• He recently finished editing years of recordings of St. Martin's diverse music ensembles to produce St. Martin’s first compact disc recording.

Pavlechko is currently the Cantor and Composer in Residence at St. Martin's Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas.  To hear some of his compositions, click the "Listen" link to your right.