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André Lash

André Lash

b 1947

André Lash has had five decades of experience as a worship organist and Minister of Music. In addition he brings a wealth of musical knowledge gleaned from the world of performance: earlier in his career he was in the final rounds of competitions in both France and the U.S. and has appeared as a solo artist in venues as far-flung as Seoul, Beijing, and major cities of Russia. He is uniquely skilled in fitting traditional organ repertoire into the liturgical and seasonal needs of the Church. But as a practicing church musician it has long been his custom to improvise his own free accompaniments for final stanzas of hymns of many different styles. The present collection puts forth in printed form some of these accompaniments. He has previously had free introductions and accompaniments published in various denominational journals, and a collection of organ solo arrangements of Advent hymns, entitled “Sunday Specials”, was published in 2000.

Dr. Lash holds degrees from Pittsburg (Kansas) State University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Eastman School of Music (studio of Russell Saunders). He received a mid-career Regional Artist’s Grant for study on organs and organ music in 17th-century Spain. Besides his degreed academic work, he also studied privately for two years with the late Arthur Poister, and in workshops and masterclasses under Anton Heiller and Marie-Claire Alain.

Dr. Lash is conversant with a wide spectrum of organ literature; his CD “Gallic in Greensboro” features both French Symphonic and French Classic music played on the Fisk organ, Op.82, at Christ United Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was organist from 2005 until his retirement from that position in 2017. Besides his work as a church musician in Georgia, Oklahoma and North Carolina, he taught at the university level in all three states, having fully retired from this aspect of his career in 2019 after 10 years as adjunct organ instructor and graduate faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists (FAGO) and now serves on the Committee for Professional Certification of the AGO. He has also adjudicated for regional and national organ competitions. He currently resides in Lake County, Florida with his wife Sheryl.

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