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Andrew Henderson Recital - Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
J.S. BACH Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV 564
GRIER Flourish & Reverie
WEAVER Prelude on 'Beach Spring'
WEAVER Toccata
WIDOR Symphonie VI in G minor, Op. 42
Andrew Elliot Henderson was appointed Director of Music & Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC), New York City, 2005. At the church he oversees an extensive liturgical and choral program, including the 45-voice Saint Andrew Chorale, the New York City Children's Chorus, in addition to the Saint Andrew Music Society's Music on Madison concert series. He also serves as the Associate Organist at New York City's Temple Emanu-El one of the largest Jewish houses of worship in the world, and as the organ instructor at Teacher's College, Columbia University.
Dr. Henderson, a native of Thorold, Ontario, holds degrees in music from Cambridge University in England and Yale University. While at Cambridge he held the position of Organ Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge from 1996 to 1999, and at Yale he completed his graduate studies in organ performance on a full scholarship from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The recipient of a C.V. Starr Foundation fellowship, he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School in 2007, receiving the Richard F. French prize for the best doctoral document. He has served as an adjunct assistant professor of organ at Westminster Choir College, where he taught graduate courses in organ literature, and from 2001 to 2005 was Assistant Organist at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
In August 2002 Andrew was a finalist in the international organ competition Grand Prix de Chartres held in Chartres Cathedral, France, and in 2003 he won first prize in the biennial National Organ Playing Competition sponsored by the Royal Canadian College of Organists. As well as performing recitals in St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, London, and in most major venues in New York City and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., recent performances include organ and continuo playing with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Musica Sacra, The Oratorio Society of New York, and The Collegiate Chorale. Recent solo recitals include appearances in Krakow, Poland (Krakow Philharmonic Hall), at the Elora Festival (Ontario), and in Colorado (Boulder Bach Festival), Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Carolina, at the historic Round Lake Auditorium in Upstate New York and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In June 2013 he served as conference organist for the Music & Worship Arts Week for the Fellowship of United Methodist Musicians at Lake Junaluska, NC, and this June he will be the featured recitalist at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians' annual conference at Montreat, NC. His performances have been featured on the nationally-syndicated public radio programs Pipedreams and With Heart and Voice. His first solo CD, Andrew Henderson at St. John's, Elora, was recorded and released in 2010.
A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, his teachers have included John Tuttle, Barrie Cabena, David Sanger, Thomas Murray and John Weaver. Andrew is married to organist Mary Wannamaker Huff, who is the Associate Director of Music at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and Director of the New York City Children's Chorus at MAPC. Andrew and Mary have two young boys, Elliot and Christian.
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LocationChurch of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10028
United States
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