Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953

Alfred V. Fedak, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, holds degrees in Organ Performance and Music History from Hope College and Montclair State University, and has done additional study at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, and in Austria and England. A Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, he also holds the AGO’s Choirmaster Certificate, and since 1986 has been a member of the Guild’s national Board of Examiners. Widely known as a composer of church music, he has over 300 choral and organ works in print, and his numerous hymn tunes appear in hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and Asia. The winner of many awards in both organ performance and composition, he has performed and lectured widely throughout the US and abroad. He has served on the editorial committees that produced two hymnals: Sing! A New Creation and Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, and since 1990 has worked as Minister of Music and Arts at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He is also organist/choir director at Albany’s Congregation Beth Emeth; harpsichordist/organist with Capitol Chamber Artists; a member of the adjunct faculty at SUNY Schenectady School of Music, and accompanist and composer-in-residence for the Hudson-Mohawk Chorale.