Jim Koudelka is a private voice and piano instructor in Lincoln, Nebraska during the academic year. He is musical director for the Okoboji Summer Theatre, part of the educational traning program for actors from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. At Okoboji, he has music directed over 25 mainstage musicals, and three children's musicals. Jim is also a music consultant for Nebraska Educational Television.

As a composer, he is affiliated with the New Tuners Musical Theatre Workshop, Theatre Building Chicago, since 1991. There, "The Well of the Guelphs", written in collaboration with Donald Abramson, received two developmental staged readings. "The Well of the Guelphs" has since been produced at Okoboji Summer Theatre and the Lincoln Community Playhouse.

His other work at Theatre Building Chicago includes a staged reading of Jalube MacCurtain's "43rd Annual Family Reunion," written in collaboration with artistic director John Sparks (lyrics) and Barbara Georgans (book). Jim's commissioned serious choral music has been performed nationally by the Purdue University Musical Organizations, and the Abendmusick: Lincoln Chorus, affiliated with First-Plymouth Church, Lincoln, as well as the Lincoln Civic Chorus, based at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

As a published composer, Jim has choral works printed with Alfred Publishing, Carl Fischer, and G. Schirmer. He is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.

Jim is a native Nebraskan, raised in Battle Creek, and a graduate of Wayne, Nebraska, State College. He has made Lincoln home since attending graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was a long-time accompanist for the Lincoln Public Schools and Union College before becoming a full-time private instructor.

As an accompanist, Jim has played for for countless school, college and community art song recitals, choruses, musicals, and swing choirs, but considers cabaret his favorite type of program.