Andrew Scanlon plays recitals this fall: October 7, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 10/14, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Bath, North Carolina; 10/26, Organ Spooktacular, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina; November 23, Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts.
Scanlon is organist-choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and instructor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University. He previously served in Pittsburgh as a member of the organ faculty at Duquesne University, director of music at First Presbyterian Church, and conductor of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir. He formerly held positions at St. Paul’s Cathedral (Buffalo), Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (New York City), and Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Duquesne University and master’s degree from Yale University.
Scanlon has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe, including appearances at national conventions of the AGO and the OHS. He has been broadcast on NPR’s Pipedreams as well as on WQED-FM in Pittsburgh, WBFO and WNED in Buffalo, and WCRB-FM in Boston, and is featured on the OHS recording Historic Organs of Boston. In 2001, he was awarded Duquesne’s André Marchal Prize for Excellence in Performance, and has won top prizes in several playing competitions, including first prizes in the 2002 West Chester Organ Competition and the 1999 Boston AGO chapter competition.
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