Gerre Hancock
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Gerre Hancock (born 1934 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American organist, improviser, and composer. Hancock is currently Senior Lecturer in Organ and Sacred Music at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dr. Hancock received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas and his Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Dr. Hancock has served as Assistant Organist at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York, Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church (now Christ Church Cathedral) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York.
Dr. Hancock's compositions are published by Oxford University Press (OUP). His textbook, Improvising: How to Master the Art, also published by OUP, is studied by organists throughout the country.
Hancock studied organ with E. William Doty, Robert Baker, Jean Langlais, Marie-Claire Alain and improvisation with Nadia Boulanger and Searle Wright. He has served on the faculties the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, The Juilliard School in New York City, and taught improvisation on a visiting basis at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University in New Haven, CT, and The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
| Preceded by: William Self |
Organist & Master of the Choristers, St. Thomas Church, New York 1971–2004 |
Succeeded by: John Scott (organist) |
