Andrew Henderson is Director of Music & Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, where he oversees an extensive liturgical and choral program. He also serves as the chair of the organ department at the Manhattan School of Music, as the organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and as Associate Organist at New York City’s Temple Emanu-El. A native of Thorold, Ontario, he holds degrees in music from Cambridge and Yale Universities, and in 2007 he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School. He was a finalist in the international competition Grand Prix de Chartres in France in 2002, and won first prize in the Royal Canadian College of Organists’ biennial National Organ Playing Competition the following year. Recent performances include organ and continuo playing with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Musica Sacra, Voices of Ascension, The Oratorio Society of New York and The Collegiate Chorale, and solo recitals in Poland, Canada, and throughout the USA. His first solo CD, Andrew Henderson at St. John’s, Elora, was recorded and released in 2010.