Andrew Shenton
| Andrew Shenton | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Title | Professor of Music, James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music |
| 🏅 Awards | 2009 Miller Book Award |
| 🌐 Website | www.andrewshenton.com |
Andrew Shenton is a musician, educator, and scholar. He is the James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music at Boston University School of Theology and a professor of musicology and ethnomusicology.[1]
Education
Shenton began his professional music training at Royal College of Music in London with a scholarship from the Royal College of Organists. During his time, Shenton read for a Bachelor of Music degree at London University and held a position at St. Paul's Cathedral as an organ scholar.[2]
Shenton holds a Master's degree in organ performance from Yale University and the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists. His master’s thesis at the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts at Yale University concerns the renaissance of sacred art in Britain since 1945.[3] His doctoral dissertation at Harvard University, "The Unspoken Word: Olivier Messiaen's 'Langage Communicable'" is a musico-linguistic study of the twentieth-century French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen.[4]
Career
Shenton is the James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music at Boston University School of Theology and is the conductor of Vox Futura, New England's premiere recording choir.[5] He has toured Europe and the United States as a conductor and recitalist. A noted choral conductor, Shenton has numerous recording and producing credits notably with the Navona label.[6] He is an active performer, seeing this as integral and intertwined with his scholarly career.
He is a highly regarded scholar. In 2009, he won the Miller Book Award from the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists for his book, Olivier Messiaen’s System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding his Music.[7]
Publications & Recordings
Shenton has written quite extensively on a variety of subjects related to his fields of study. He has edited volumes such as The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt, published by Cambridge University Press. Additionally, he has made many contributions to collected volumes such as Messiaen in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and White Light: Arvo Pärt in Media, Culture and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Forthcoming
- Shenton, Andrew. Olivier Messiaen's Turnanglîla-symphonie (Elements in Music Since 1945). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Shenton, Andrew. Sacred Art in a Secular Society: The Rise and Fall of Sacred Art in Britain after 1945. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023.
Books and Collections
- Shenton, Andrew and Joanna Smolko, eds. Christian Sacred Music in the Americas. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
- Shenton, Andrew. Arvo Pärt’s Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956-2015. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Bloxam, M. Jennifer & Andrew Shenton, eds. Exploring Christian Song. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017.
- Shenton, Andrew, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Shenton, Andrew, ed. Messiaen the Theologian. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. London: Routledge, 2016 (paperback edition).
- Shenton, Andrew. Olivier Messiaen’s System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding his Music. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. London: Routledge, 2016 (paperback edition).
Recordings[8]
- Christopher J. Hoh, Christmas Carols (World Premiere Recordings), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6299, Dashing, Volume 3, 2022).
- Kong-Yu Wong, Three Lyrics of Lu Fang Weng (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6299, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 3, 2020).
- Scott Anthony Shell, Gitanjali 1 (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6299, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 3, 2020).
- Christopher J. Hoh, Music at the Heart of Creation (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6299, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 3, 2020).
- Blind Guardian, Legacy of the Dark Lands, chorus conductor, Vox Futura (Nuclear Blast GmbH, 2019).
- Scott Solak, Ave Maria (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6221, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 2, 2019).
- Whitman Brown, Psalm 23 (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6221, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 2, 2019).
- L. Peter Deutsch, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6221, Voices of Earth and Air, Volume 2, 2019).
- Mark Dal Porto, Three Songs for Choir (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura. NH: Navona Records NV6220, Peace, Nature & Renewal, 2019).
- Ēriks Ešenvalds, Stars, conductor, Boston Choral Ensemble, in conjunction with the Hayden Planetarium of the Museum of Science, Boston (Digital video recording project, 2018).
- Alicia Terzian, Canto a mi misma, conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6088, Off the Edge, 2017).
- Jonathan David Little, Gloria, Op. 18 (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6113, Woefully Arrayed, 2017).
- Jonathan David Little, Woefully Arrayed, Op. 13 (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records NV6113, Woefully Arrayed, 2017).
- Juli Nunlist, Spells for SATB Choir (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (NH: Navona Records, Spells, 2017).
- Joanne Carey, The Tyger (World Premiere Recording), conductor, Vox Futura (Navona Records, NV6061, Cadence: New Works for Voices in Verse, 2016).
- Blind Guardian, Beyond the Red Mirror, chorus conductor, Vox Futura (Nuclear Blast GmbH, 2015).
- Still, still night: Music for Christmas. The Boston Choral Ensemble, directed by Andrew Shenton (Futura Productions / Oasis Records / Kelham Productions, 2015).
- Twentieth Century British Organ Music. Solo organ CD recorded on the organ at Holy Name West Roxbury (Oasis Records / Kelham Productions, 2015).
References
- ↑ "Andrew Shenton". Boston University School of Theology. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ "Andrew Shenton". Boston University College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ "Getting to Know Andrew Shenton". St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ Shenton, Andrew David James. "The Unspoken Word: Olivier Messiaen's 'Langage Communicable'." Order No. 9832494, Harvard University, 1998.
- ↑ "Vox Futura". Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ "Performers". Navona Records. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ "Professor Andrew Shenton receives 2009 Max B. Miller Book Prize". Boston University School of Theology. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ↑ "Andrew Shenton | School of Theology". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
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