News
Article in Wisconsin State Journal
"Concert organist creates intimate experience in grand space during holiday sing-along"
Review in Phindie
"Zelek, a consummate artist...has the ability to make the 2-manual Aeolian-Skinner Opus 963 organ, installed in 1937, overcome both its venerability and vulnerability in a beautiful performance of carefully selected music."
Review in The Cap Times
"When it is played as well as Greg Zelek in the MSO’s second number of the night, “Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra” by Samuel Barber, it proves just as aurally stunning as it is visually."
Review in Channel3000
"The guest artist for the concerts is Greg Zelek, the symphony's organist, playing the Overture Concert Organ and he figuratively blew the place apart."
Review in The Well-Tempered Ear
"The virtuosic Zelek is simply so good that he managed to turn a second-rate piece by Samuel Barber into a first-rate crowd-pleaser that brought huge applause and a long standing ovation, then an encore and another standing ovation."
Review by Greg Hettmansberger
"Zelek, not surprisingly was the master of all required of him, including an extended section for just the pedals."
Article in Channel3000
"...the MSO has a new musical star, organist Greg Zelek, 26, who performs in shirt sleeves, shares family stories with his audience and seems to delight in mingling with patrons during intermissions. His last concert sold out the Overture Center on a Tuesday night."
TV Interview with NBC15
"Evening anchor John Stofflet sits down with Greg Zelek, principal organist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra"
Article in the Isthmus
"Greg Zelek takes over as principal player and curator of the Overture Concert Organ"
Article in the South Carolina Index-Journal
"Virtuosic organist credits luck and timing for his start"
Preview in the Tampa Bay Times
"The concert features Greg Zelek on the organ and Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich playing Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole"
Interview with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
"Organist Greg Zelek Shares Future Goals with MSO"
Preview in Organiste
"Greg Zelek, one of the country's most exciting young organists, will give a concert in the Fort Lauderdale Sanctuary"