Director of Music & Organist
Don Krehbiel has served as Director of Music at First Unitarian Church of Dallas since 1989, where he leads a diverse program of both amateur and professional musicians, and directs two adult choirs. Don is a talented and versatile musician known for many skills including: choral conductor, tenor soloist, organist, and pianist.
He holds degrees of Master of Sacred Music (magna cum laude) from Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of Theology, and Bachelor of Arts from Bethel College, Newton, Kansas. In addition, Mr. Krehbiel studied theology and church music at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana.
Mr. Krehbiel has conducted children’s, youth and adult church choirs since 1979, served as an adjunct choral director at Southern Methodist University, conducting the 40-voice auditioned Meadows Chorale, prepared the Dallas Symphony Chorus for performances and CD recording of Steven Stucky’s oratorio ‘August 4, 1964’, founded and directed a 30-voice male chorus consisting of talented amateur and professional singers from area Methodist Churches, and is the Founding Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Singers.
Known for his passion for finding new and unusual choral music as well as older but rarely heard pieces, Mr. Krehbiel has led numerous choral repertoire sessions for national and regional meetings of the Fellowship of United Methodists, the Unitarian Universalists Musicians Fellowship, and the American Guild of Organists.
Notable tenor solos include Bach’s Magnificat, Cantatas #4, 78, 106, & 211, Mass in b minor, Handel’s Messiah, and Dettingen Te Deum, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Great Mass in c minor, Requiem, Litaniae Lauretanae, and many others.
In 2010 he was presented two awards for excellence in church music: The Ruth Clark Award from The North Texas Association of Unitarian Universalist Societies, and the Soli Deo Gloria Award from Perkins School of Theology, SMU.
Don Krehbiel retired from Orpheus in December 2021, after 27 seasons with the organization. In their free time, Don and his husband John Bush, enjoy attending and supporting numerous choral and musical events in the DFW area.
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