Dr. Dylan Sanzenbacher is a harpsichordist, organist, and specialist in early keyboard music, with a focus on historically informed performance and liturgical leadership. Since 2016, he has served as Organist and Director of Music at
First Congregational United Church of Christ in Elyria, Ohio, where he directs the choral and handbell ensembles and oversees a comprehensive music program. As a performer, he has appeared in concerts, masterclasses, and festivals across the United States and Europe, including appearances at Trinity Cathedral (Cleveland, Ohio), Christ Church (Rochester, New York), Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), the Flintwood Collection of Antique Keyboard Instruments (Wilmington, Delaware), the Chapel on Squirrel Island (Maine), and the Smarano International Early Keyboards Academy (Smarano, Italy and Vienna, Austria). Dylan has studied keyboard instruments under the tutelage of Dr. William Porter, Dr. Edoardo Bellotti, Lisa Goode Crawford, Nicole Keller, Dr. Sungeun Kim, and Thomas Solich.
His performance work centers on 17th- and 18th-century repertoire, with particular interest in performance practice, improvisation, and historical sources. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree in Early Music from the Eastman School of Music as well as a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. For his DMA lecture recital, Dylan explored a manuscript anthology of 17th-century keyboard works known as the “Woodcock” manuscript, which contains unedited toccatas attributed to Bernardo Pasquini and other Roman composers. Dylan is a member of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, and the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies.
In his free time Dylan loves spending time with his wife Angela, reading, cooking, learning about his family history, traveling, and playing with his two miniature dachshunds, Oliver and Henry.