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1. Organ Point
2. Ostinato
3. Scherzo
David Hurd was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 27 January 1950.
Prior
to his under-graduate studies at Oberlin College, he attended both
the High
School of Music and Art and the Juilliard School. Upon graduation
from Oberlin
in 1971 (Mus.B.), he was appointed Assistant Organist of Trinity
Parish
in lower Manhattan where he served under the direction of Larry
King. He
was appointed to the faculty of Duke University in 1972 concurrent
with
graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
In 1973
he returned to New York as Organist and Music Director at the
Chapel of
the Intercession, a position he retained until 1978 when he was
named Composer
in Residence for a season. In 1976 he was appointed to the faculty
of The
General Theological Seminary in New York City where he is
presently Professor
of Church Music and Organist. In addition, has served as Director
of Music
at All Saints Church, New York City, from 1985 to 1997 and is
currently
Director of Music at The Church of the Holy Apostles. In 1977 he was awarded first prizes both
in organ playing and in improvisation
at the International Congress of Organists. He has concertized
throughout
North America since that time under the representation of Phillip
Truckenbrod.
He has performed both at National and Regional Conventions of the
American
Guild of Organists. In 1981 he was invited to perform at the
Internationaal
Orgelfestival Haarlem, meeting in Gouda, the Netherlands, during
which he
received the diploma for improvisation of the Stichting
Internationaal Orgelconcours.
His principal organ teachers were Bronson Ragan, Garth Peacock,
and Arthur
Poister.
In 2009, Dr. Hurd was named the 15th "Distinguished
Composer" of the American Organ Guild. Other composers who have received
this award include Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Daniel Pinkham, Conrad
Susa, William Bolcom and Dominick Argento. Dr. Hurd will be honored at a
special concert during the 2010 AGO convention which will feature a
newly commissioned work.
He has received many commissions for
choral, organ, and instrumental works,
and has composed much liturgical music. Among his published works
are organ
pieces, choral works and many original hymn settings. His
liturgical compositions
and arrangements are also found in several major hymnals. He
served on the
Standing Commission on Church Music of the Episcopal Church from
1976 to
1985. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Yale Institute of
Sacred Music
and a visiting professor at the Yale School of Music. In 1987 he
was awarded
the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley
Divinity School
at Yale. The following year he received two honorary degrees; the
Doctor
of Sacred Music from The Church Divinity School of the Pacific,
Berkeley,
California, and the Doctor of Humane Letters from Seabury-Western
Theological
Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.
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