David Hurd headlines the inaugural event of the Immanuel Chapel Concert Series

About this event

Organist and composer David Hurd is offering the inaugural performance of the new Immanuel Chapel Concert Series on Thursday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Selections include Buxtehude’s Te Deum laudamus and the composer’s own Te Deum laudamus.

This event is co-sponsored by the Worship Department and the Office of Multicultural Ministries at VTS.

Admission is free with advance registration through Eventbrite.

Virginia Theological Seminary is pleased to open our events to fully vaccinated guests. During the event, mask-wearing is required.

About the Artist

David Hurd is widely recognized as one of the foremost church musicians and concert organists in the United States, with a long list of honors and achievements, and immeasurable expertise in organ performance, improvisation, and composition. For 39 years David Hurd was on the faculty of The General Theological Seminary in New York City, as Director of Chapel Music, Organist, and Professor of Church Music. He is the composer of dozens of hymns, choral works, settings of the liturgy, and organ works published by a number of major houses. His music appears in hymnals and choir libraries in churches of nearly all religious denominations. In 2010 he became the fifteenth recipient of The American Guild of Organists’ Distinguished Composer award. Dr. Hurd is now Organist/Choirmaster of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York City.

As a concert organist, David Hurd enjoys instant recognition having performed throughout North America and Europe, and featured at conventions of the American Guild of Organists. He was invited to perform at the Internationaal Orgelfestival Haarlem where he was awarded the diploma for improvisation at the Stichting Internationaal Orgelconcours.

He studied both at the Preparatory Division of the Juilliard School and at Manhattan’s High School of Music and Art. Later he attended Oberlin Conservatory, and went on for further study at the University of North and at the Manhattan School of Music. His organ teachers have included Bronson Ragan, Garth Peacock, Arthur Poister, and Rudolph Kremer.

David Hurd is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

About the Immanuel Chapel Concert Series

The Immanuel Chapel Concert Series at Virginia Theological Seminary provides educational opportunities for the Seminary community and outreach to Metropolitan Washington, with particular emphasis on sacred choral and organ music in the Anglican tradition.

Upcoming concerts include an organ recital by Janet Yieh, associate organist at Trinity Church Wall Street, New York City on February 10, 2022, and a performance by Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble New York Polyphony on March 31, 2022.