Join us for a captivating organ recital on Sunday, March 10 at Noon (following the 10:30 am church service) in the Nave. Recital will feature Dr. Joe Henry, St. Thomas the Apostle’s Music Director and Organist.
Dr. Joseph W. (Joe) Henry, Director of Music Ministries, has spent his life as a teacher, a performer and as a church music director. He has taught at Grambling State University (Grambling, Louisiana), Louisiana Tech University (Ruston, LA), the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN), Concordia University (St. Paul, MN),) and Union County College (Cranford, NJ). He has served the church as a choir director, music director, organist and vocal soloist for over forty years at churches in Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Louisiana, and Texas. His degrees in piano performance are from the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM, MM in accompanying) and the Manhattan School of Music (DMA in vocal accompanying: thesis: The evolution of musical form in Verdi’s arias). His degrees in organ performance are from the University of Minnesota (MM, DMA: thesis: Reinken’s “An Wasserflüssen Babylon” as it relates to the process of improvisation in the seventeenth century). He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, and served as a piano player and as a chaplain assistant in eight different army units over a period of twenty one years. He is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Romania 1998-2000).
