Dr. Andrew Henderson, New York City, N.Y., will perform in the second of four Langenberg Organ Recitals, Sunday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 621 N. Lincoln Ave., Hastings, Neb. This is the third year for the organ recital series.

The recital is free and open to the public. Following the recital, a light meal will be served in Fellowship Hall.

Henderson is director of music and organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. He administers a liturgical program that consists of a number of choirs, the Saint Andrew Chorale and a weekly concert series. Henderson also is an organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and has served as an organ faculty member at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N.J.

Recipient of a C.V. Starr Foundation Fellowship, Henderson completed a doctor of musical arts degree at Juilliard School in 2007 where he received the Richard F. French prize for best doctoral program.

A native of Thorold, Ontario, Henderson also holds degrees in music from Cambridge University in England and Yale University.

Henderson has performed in recitals at St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London, in New York City, and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He has played with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra and the Musica Sacra Orchestra and Chorus. 

The Langenberg Music Endowment was established in 2001 following the death of Luella Langenberg. The endowment provides for special needs of the church’s music program including the purchase of Steinway piano, honoraria for collegiate chancel choir section leaders, and for the purchase of Orff instruments.

The organ recital series is co-sponsored by the Hastings College Department of Music, the Hastings College Vocation and Values Program, and First Presbyterian Church.
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