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Music Director
 David Hurd's presence at Holy Apostles began in late
November 1997 when he was called upon to serve as guest
musician while Donald Joyce, then the music director, was
hospitalized. The following Spring, after Donald's untimely
death, David was appointed music director. David was not
entirely a stranger to Holy Apostles, having substituted at
the organ from time to time in years past, and collaborated
together with previous music directors Frank Santo and
Donald Joyce on various musical events including Holy Week
liturgies done jointly by Holy Apostles and General Seminary
in the early 1990s. Building on the work of his
predecessors and appreciating Holy Apostles' generous
liturgical style, David has enjoyed directing the parish's
professional choir and leading the congregation's energetic
song from the keydesk of the beautiful van den Heuvel
organ.
David was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens attending
both the High School of Music and Art and the Juilliard
School before finishing as an organ major at Oberlin
College. His principal graduate work was done in organ
performance at U.N.C., Chapel Hill. David has served as
Assistant Organist of Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel
in lower Manhattan, as a faculty member at Duke University,
as Director of Music at the Chapel of the Intercession and
of All Saints Church, both in Manhattan and, since 1976, as
a faculty member at The General Theological Seminary where
he is currently Professor of Church Music and Director of
the Chapel. In addition he has taught as an adjunct faculty
member at Westminster Choir College, at the Manhattan School
of Music, and at Yale University.
In 1977 David was awarded first prizes both in organ playing
and in improvisation at the International Congress of
Organists. He has concertized extensively since that time
under the representation of Phillip Truckenbrod. He has
been a judge for several major organ competitions.
David is an active composer with many published choral and
organ works to his credit. Many of his liturgical works are
found in our own Hymnal 1982 as well as several other
hymnals and worship books. In 1987 David was awarded the
degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Subsequently he has
received a Doctor of Sacred Music degree from The Church
Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and
the Doctor of Humane Letters from Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.
In another sphere of music-making he performs regularly with
Chelsea Winds, a recorder consort of which he was a founding
member in 1993 and for which he has arranged much music.
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