Award-Winning Organist to Perform at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Colin Andrews, an award-winning concert organist, will perform on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross.  The event is free, handicap accessible, and open to the public.

As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, the program will feature organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Andrews is interim director of organ and sacred music studies at East Carolina University. He is also an active lecturer, and has given presentations at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest; Taiwan Theological College; Pipe Organ Encounter, Pittsburgh; Oundle Summer School for Young Organists, Oundle, U.K.; Emory University; and at the 1998 AGO National Convention in Denver.

Andrews is the recipient of numerous awards.  Most notably, he was a prize winner at both the 1980 and 1982 Dublin International Organ Competitions in Ireland. In 1993, The Royal Academy of Music, London, bestowed an associateship upon him in recognition of his distinguished performance career. He has toured worldwide in both solo and ensemble concerts with his wife, American organist Janette Fishell. He has appeared at a number of the world’s most prestigious venues including the Royal Festival Hall, London;  King’s College, Cambridge;  Suntory Hall, Tokyo;  Hong Kong Cultural Center;  The Moscow Conservatoire; the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris; the National Conventions of the NZAO and the American Guild of Organists; Yale, Duke and Stanford Universities, plus leading halls and cathedrals in Taiwan, South America, Iceland, Finland, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, South Africa and most of Eastern and Western Europe. Future engagements include concert tours of Asia, Europe and the U.S.