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Andrew C. Pester, Musicology

Andrew C. Pester
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Education:

MA (in Religion)Yale University2008
MMusYale University2007
BMusEastman School of Music2005
Specialties:

Musicology
Performance
Areas of Interest:

Late Romanticism through the first half of the 20th century
Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes
French Romantic/Symphonic Organ tradition
Theology and Music in the 20th century
Theories of Modernism and Post-modernism
Composers of specific interest: Franck, Vierne, Messiaen, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Crumb, Escaich.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Robert Baker Scholar, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2007
Selected Other

  1. Recital, April 27, 2008, Cathedral of the Incarnation - Garden City, NY    
  2. Holst: The Planets, transcribed for organ (complete). With Timothy Weisman and Ray Nagem, September 22, 2007, Woolsey Hall, Yale University - New Haven, CT    
  3. Degree Recital (M.M.), February 4, 2007, Woolsey Hall, Yale University - New Haven, CT    
  4. Recital, January 28, 2006, Dwight Chapel, Yale University - New Haven, CT    
  5. Degree Recital (B.M.), April 28, 2005, Church of the Ascension - Rochester, NY    
  6. Recital, April 8, 2005, St. Paul's Cathedral - Buffalo, NY    

Professional Affiliations: American Musicological Society; Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship; Organ Historical Society; American Guild of Organists

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