Mr. Andrew Scanlon, Artistic Director
ANDREW SCANLON is the Organist-Choirmaster at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church and Instructor of Organ and Sacred Music at East Carolina University. Having arrived in Greenville in 2009, he left a similar situation in Pittsburgh, where, since 2005, he served 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 earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Duquesne University and the Master of Music degree from Yale University, where his teachers were Ann Labounsky and Thomas Murray, respectively. Additional study has been under John Skelton, John Walker, and David Craighead. As a recitalist, Scanlon maintains a busy concert schedule, performing throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Europe, including appearances at National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. He has performed concerts at some of the world’s most significant religious venues including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York), Notre-Dame Cathedral, The American Cathedral and La Trinité Church (Paris) as well as other destinations in France, Italy, England and Croatia. Scanlon has been broadcast on NPR's nationally syndicated radio program Pipedreams as well as on WQED-FM in Pittsburgh, WBFO and WNED in Buffalo, and WCRB-FM in Boston, and he is featured on the recently released OHS recording: Historic Organs of Boston. In 2001, Andrew Scanlon was awarded Duquesne’s André Marchal Prize for Excellence in Performance. Andrew has also won top prizes in several playing competitions, including first prizes in the 2002 West Chester Organ Competition, and the 1999 Boston Chapter AGO Competition. Actively involved in the American Guild of Organists, Andrew holds the Fellowship diploma (FAGO) and serves on the National Board of Examiners in Professional Certification.
