Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke, a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is organist and choirmaster of Riverside Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, Florida, and is active as a choral director, organ recitalist, piano accompanist, composer and teacher. He is a graduate of Yale University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and pursued advanced organ study in The Netherlands. He has taught organ improvisation at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and organ at Williams College, has been on the faculties of Jacksonville University and Florida Community College, and has presented master classes in improvisation for many chapters and conventions of the American Guild of Organists and at leading universities.

As a recitalist Mr. Clarke has played throughout the United States and Canada, including performances at Tanglewood and at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, North Carolina. Among Andrew Clarke’s recordings is The Casavant Pipe Organ, a CD that showcases the organ in Jacoby Hall in Jacksonville’s Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, and which is available for check-out from the Library. His organ and choral compositions are published by Gemini Press.

New Songs of Celebration Render

Psalm 98, paraphrased by Erik Routley

Written for the installation of Dr. W. Stephen Goyer, the 9th Senior Pastor of Riverside Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, Florida, on October 16, 2005.

--Intermezzo Sunday Concerts, November 19, 2006 (The Orange Park Chorale: Music of Local Composers)