About me
Alfred V. Fedak is a distinguished organist and a widely-published and well-known composer of church music, with over 300 choral and organ works in print. More than 100 of his hymn tunes appear in hymnals and collections throughout the English-speaking world and Asia. Four anthologies of his hymns have been published by Selah Publishing Company, and The Hymn review of his 2009 collection called him “the finest composer of hymn tunes working today.” A Harvard University concert program note has similarly described him as being “widely regarded as one of the greatest living composers of original hymn tunes.” He served on the editorial committee for the hymnal supplement Sing! A New Creation and oversaw the work of the music subcommittee for the current Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God. As an organ soloist, accompanist, or church musician, he has performed in Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Anguilla. He has served as organist and choir director for churches and synagogues in the East and Midwest, most notably from 1990 to 2021 as Minister of Music and Arts at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York.
