• Email Address: ahenderson@rider.edu
• Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

Andrew Elliot Henderson was appointed Director of Music & Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, in July 2005, where he administers a busy liturgical program with a number of choirs, a choral society, and a weekly concert series.  The recipient of a C.V. Starr Foundation fellowship, he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Juilliard School in 2007, receiving the Richard F. French prize for the best doctoral

Dr. Henderson, a native of Thorold, Ontario, holds degrees in music from Cambridge University in England and Yale University.  While at Cambridge he held the position of Organ Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge from 1996-1999, and at Yale he completed his graduate studies in organ performance on a full scholarship from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.  From 2001 to 2005 he was the Assistant Organist at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, where he was actively involved in their renowned liturgical and concert programs.  In August 2002 Andrew was one of four candidates chosen to compete in the final round of the international organ competition Grand Prix de Chartres held in Chartres Cathedral, France, and in 2003 he won first prize in the biennial National Organ Playing Competition sponsored by the Royal Canadian College of Organists.  A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, his teachers have included John Tuttle, Barrie Cabena, David Sanger, Thomas Murray and John Weaver. 

Andrew is married to organist Mary Wannamaker Huff, who is the Associate Director of Music at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and Director of the Children’s Choirs at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.  Andrew and Mary have two young boys, Elliot and Christian. As an adjunct Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey he has taught graduate courses in organ literature, and he is currently the organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.