DONALD LARSEN, Artist-in-Residence,
is an active free-lance
percussionist/timpanist who has performed with the American Chamber
Ensemble, Celebrations Brass, Long Island Philharmonic, Nassau
Symphony, Atlantic Wind Symphony, Concert Pops of LI, Queens Festival
Band, Eglevsky and Moscow Ballet Orchestras, Brooklyn Symphony, and
the Island Chamber Symphony. He has also performed with the
orchestras for numerous local choirs including the Northport, Huntington,
North Shore, and Babylon Chorales, the Long Island Choral Society (from
1971 under the direction of Norman Hollett until the present), Waldorf
Choral Society, Mineola Choral Society, Rockville Centre Diocesan
Choir, St. Agnes Cathedral Choirs, Brookhaven Choral Festival, LI Choral
Festival, and the Choral Festival of the Hamptons. He can be heard on
the American Chamber Ensemble’s CD of Herbert Deutsch’s Woman in
Darkness.
He has also performed with many theater orchestras including the John
Engeman Theater in Northport, Airport Playhouse in Bohemia, Theatre
Three in Port Jefferson, and “Tada” Childrens’ Theater in NYC. Mr. Larsen
can also be seen performing as the “fifth Moptop” with the Beatles cover
band, “Mostly Moptop”.
Mr. Larsen holds a BS in Music Education from Hofstra University and an
MS in Music Education from Queens College. A native Long Islander, he
lives in Huntington with his wife Sue, a French Horn player. In 2006 he
retired from the Hicksville Public Schools after 32 years as a band
director. We are delighted to welcome him as this year’s Artist-in-
Residence and eagerly anticipate his solo performance. Make sure you
come to all of the concerts so you don’t miss it.
HENRY DEVRIES, Organist, is a 1984, cum laude graduate of Westminster
Choir College in Princeton, NJ, majoring in organ performance. While at
Westminster, he studied organ with Eugene Roan and Donald McDonald,
harpsichord with James Jones and Mark Brombaugh, and voice and choral
conducting with James McKeever, Allen Crowell, and Frauke Haasemann. In
1986, he was the winner of the Stamford (CT) American Guild of Organists
Young Artists Competition. He has performed and accompanied frequently
throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania on organ,
harpsichord, and piano.
Mr. DeVries is a rostered teacher of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LC-MS)
and is currently serving as Minister of Music at Trinity Lutheran Church and
School, in Hicksville, NY. At Trinity, he directs a multiple choir and handbell
program, as well as teaching vocal and choral music in the school. Mr. DeVries
has often played for or directed the choirs at festival services in the Atlantic
District of the LC-MS. He is a frequent accompanist for the brass groups Clarino
Consort and Celebrations Brass, the flute and French horn duo Momentum, the
Bel Canto Chorale, and the Long Island Choral Society.
He currently serves as Dean of the AGO, Nassau (NY) Chapter, and is an active
member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM), having
previously held the office of Secretary/Treasurer for Region I of ALCM.
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