 Andrew Shenton
Assistant Professor of Sacred Music
James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music
B.M. London University
M.M. Yale University
A.M. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University
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Andrew Shenton was born in England. His first professional
music training was at The Royal College of Music in London,
where he studied under a scholarship from The Royal College
of Organists. While at the RCM he read for a B.Mus. degree
at London University and was an organ scholar at St. Paul’s
Cathedral. After graduating he was appointed Director of
Music at St. Matthew’s Church in Northampton and Lecturer
in the Humanities at Leicester University. In 1991 Andrew
Shenton moved to the US to study for a Master’s degree
at the Institute for Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts at
Yale University and then for a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard
University. As a student at the ISM he prepared for a ministry
involved with the arts (with music as a primary focus), as
he is interested in all aspects of spirituality and the arts.
This is reflected in his Master’s thesis, which concerns
the renaissance of sacred art in post-war Britain, and in
his doctoral dissertation, which is a musico-linguistic study
of the twentieth-century French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen.
Dr. Shenton has a Master’s degree in organ performance
from Yale, and holds the Fellowship diploma of the Royal
College of Organists. Recently he has given recitals in such
venues as King’s College, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey,
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, St. Thomas Church Fifth
Avenue (New York debut), and Washington National Cathedral.
He has toured extensively in Europe and the US as a conductor,
recitalist and clinician, and his two solo organ recordings
have received international acclaim.
In addition to diplomas in both piano and organ Dr. Shenton
holds the Choir Training diploma of the Royal College of
Organists. He has been the recipient of numerous scholarships
and awards including a Harvard Merit Fellowship, and Harvard’s
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. He has served on
the faculties of Yale University and The Catholic University
of America. Throughout his studies he has been particularly
concerned with issues of historically informed performance
practice. In addition, he has made an extensive study of
voice production and vocal technique, and frequently acts
as a repetiteur, coach and accompanist for singers. He has
pioneered contemporary music in a variety of styles and has
given more than forty world premieres by composers such as
Geoffrey Burgon, Joe Utterback and John Tavener.
At the School of Theology, Dr. Shenton directs the Master
of Sacred Music program.
E-mail: shenton@bu.edu
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