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David Hurd

David Hurd

b. 1950

David Hurd is widely recognized as one of the foremost church musicians and concert organists in the United States, with a long list of awards, prizes, and honors recognizing his achievements and expertise in organ performance, improvisation, and composition. From 1976 until 2015, David Hurd taught on the faculty of The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City, eventually being named Professor of Church Music and Organist. For his work at The General Theological Seminary and for his substantial contribution to church music, four other seminaries have awarded him honorary doctorates. He has taught also at Duke University, Manhattan School of Music, Westminster Choir College, and Yale University.

He studied in New York at the Juilliard School, the High School of Music and Art, and the Manhattan School of Music. His undergraduate music degree is from Oberlin College in Ohio, and he continued his studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

As a concert organist David Hurd enjoys instant recognition both at home and abroad. Since winning first prizes both in organ performance and in improvisation of the 1977 International Congress of Organists, he has performed throughout North America and Europe, and has been a featured artist at numerous national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. He is represented exclusively in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

He is the composer of dozens of published choral, vocal, liturgical, and organ works. In 2010 he became the fifteenth recipient of The American Guild of Organists’ Distinguished Composer Award. From 1998 until 2013 he was Music Director and Organist at Church of the Holy Apostles (Episcopal) in New York City. In 2016, he was appointed Organist and Music Director of the famed Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Times Square.

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  1. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
    SKU: 9150*
    SATB Chorus and Organ
    Hurd, David
  2. African-American Organ Music Anthology, Volume 9
    SKU: 10-649
    Organ
    Hurd, David; Miller, Mark A.; Terry, Mickey Thomas; Walker, George; Moore, Undine Smith
  3. African-American Organ Music Anthology, Volume 6
    SKU: 10-586
    Organ
    Fax, Mark; Hurd, David; Kerr, Thomas H.; Norman, Ruth; Terry, Mickey Thomas; Walker, George
  4. African-American Organ Music Anthology, Volume 4
    SKU: 10-548
    Organ
    Fax, Mark; Hurd, David; Norman, Ruth; Terry, Mickey Thomas
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