Andrew Van Varick

Andrew Van Varick is a Doctor of Musical Arts student at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies organ performance under Professor David Higgs and accompanies the Eastman-Rochester Chorus under the direction of Dr. William Weinert. Previously, Andrew received a Master of Music degree from Eastman, and he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Montclair State University, where he took organ with Professors Vincent Carr and John Miller, piano with Professor Mark Pakman, and harpsichord with Dr. Hsuan-Wen Chen. During his time at Montclair, Andrew served as the principal student accompanist of the Montclair State University Chorale, directed by Dr. Heather Buchanan, and performed as organist for their performances of Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo and John Rutter’s Gloria. He participated as a continuo harpsichordist in the MSU Collegium Musicum, accompanied an undergraduate opera workshop, and played keyboards in the pit orchestras of multiple musical theater productions.

 

Andrew has played in coachings and masterclasses with Raul Prieto Ramirez, Balint Karosi, Michel Bouvard, Wilma Jensen, Simon Johnson, Ezequiel Menendez, Chelsea Chen, and Alan Morrison. As a recitalist, he has performed on the “Young Organ Artist” series at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan, New York City, on the “Wednesdays at Noon” series at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey, and for the Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Little Rock, Arkansas chapters of the AGO. In 2022, he was a semifinalist in the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance, which was held at the AGO convention in Seattle. In September 2023, he competed as a semifinalist in the Ninth International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo in Japan. Currently, Andrew serves as the director of music and organist at the Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo, New York.