David Hurd has been organist and music director at The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York City, since Spring 2016. He has previously served in other Manhattan churches including Trinity Church, The Church of the Intercession, Saint James Episcopal Church, All Saints Episcopal Church, and the Church of the Holy Apostles. He was Professor of Church Music and Organist at The General Theological Seminary for nearly four decades. He has also taught at Duke University, Yale University, The Manhattan School of Music, and Westminster Choir College. Educated principally at the Juilliard School, Oberlin College, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his musical accomplishments have been recognized with four honorary doctorates and various other awards including first prizes both in organ playing and in improvisation at the 1977 International Congress of Organists, and the 2010 Distinguished Composer Award of the American Guild of Organists. He has composed extensively, particularly in the areas of choral and organ music. His commissioned works have received New York premier performances in such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, and Trinity Church, Wall Street. Among his compositions also are more than eighty published hymn tunes, several of which appear in major denominational hymnals. He is represented as a concert organist by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.