David Sinden, organist

David Sinden is a critically-acclaimed organist and church musician noted for his "masterful" choral accompanying. He is also an innovative recitalist who often pairs modern works and improvisations alongside early masterpieces.

“Organist David Sinden provided masterful accompaniment for the choir – shading the crevices, plumbing the depths, and exalting the peaks”

– The Diapason

Mr. Sinden has previously served as Organist at St. Thomas Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Bloomington, Indiana, and Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, Ohio, where he established the St. Peter's Choristers, a choir for young people affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music. He has also worked as Organist and Choirmaster at Lake Delaware Boys' Camp, an Anglo-Catholic military camp in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

Mr. Sinden holds a master's degree from Indiana University, where he studied organ with Larry Smith, and a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, where he studied with David Boe. While a student at Oberlin, Mr. Sinden was the Organist and Choirmaster for college Vespers. He studied organ with Robert Brewer while attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas.

An active promoter of the organ and its music, Mr. Sinden has hosted the Friday Night Organ Pump, a midnight organ recital held monthly in Oberlin's Finney Chapel. He is active in the American Guild of Organists and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Indianapolis Chapter. Mr. Sinden also teaches organ privately and currently has two high-school-age students.

Mr. Sinden has performed in master classes throughout North America for such noted musicians as Gerre Hancock, Paul Manz, Mitzi Meyerson, Bruce Neswick, William Porter, and Giles Swayne.

Mr. Sinden has also received the Composer Award from the American Festival for the Arts.

Music

Improvisation on "In dulci jubilo"

Wolff organ, December 2008

"Lord of all being" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tune: HOLY LIGHT by David Sinden

Brombaugh organ, recorded in liturgy, March 2003

Chorale Prelude: "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich"    BWV 609
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Taylor & Boody organ, July 2008

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