Jeong-Suk Bae, D.M.A.
About Jeong-Suk
Dr. Jeong-Suk Bae is the organ faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, where she teaches organ and harpsichord while overseeing the summer organ camp and annual Monaghan Organ Recital Series. She serves First Presbyterian Church Houston as the principal organist and the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart as the assistant organist. Along with the church positions, she’s regularly featured as the organist for Chorus Angelorum Evensongs at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham and choral/orchestral events with Houston Chorale Society.
Bae received Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance at the University of Houston under Roberts Bates and Matthew Dirst. Her former teachers include Albert Travis at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.M., organ performance), Fort Worth, Texas, and Jikang Jung at ChongShin Presbyterian University (B.M., piano performance), Seoul, South Korea.
I believe students’ strengths and possibilities in their process of learning and endeavoring for improvements. Teaching also gives me great learning, and I love those moments.
- 2025
- Coordinator of the 2025 POE (Pipe Organ Encounter) Houston, hosted by Houston Chapter of American Guild of Organists and Sponsored by AGO National
- 2024
- Nominee, The Magnificent Seven Award by Prayers of People, Ceremony on March 23, 2024, at LoneStar Flight Museum, Houston, Texas
- 2023
- Director of Competition/Scholarship in Education Committee, Houston Chapter, American Guild of Organists
- 2022
- 2021
- Interview with VoyageHouston (May 2021)
- Directed RCYO (Regional Competition for Young Organists) Chapter Competition hosted by AGO Houston Chapter
- 2020-2022
- Director of Competition & Scholarship Committee, Houston Chapter, American Guild of Organist
- 2019
- Faculty member and treasurer, POEA (Pipe Organ Encounter Advanced) sponsored by National AGO (American Guild of Organists) and hosted by AGO Houston Chapter
B.M., Piano Performance - Chongshin Presbyterian University
M.M., Organ Performance - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
D.M.A., Organ Performance - University of Houston