ANDREW SCANLON
has been the director of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir since 2006. In
addition to his work with the Compline Choir, he is a member of the
organ faculty at Duquesne University, and the Director of Music at the
First Presbyterian Church in downtown Pittsburgh. 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, Itally, 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. He is a Fellow
of the American Guild of Organists (FAGO).
