Accompanist

Alan Murchie, Pianist

Alan Murchie is Louise H. Maclean scholar at Yale Divinity School, where he is currently a candidate for the Master of Divinity degree. He serves as seminarian and director of music ministries at St. Thomas's Episcopal Church in New Haven and as Director of Chapel Music for Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal seminary at Yale.

Mr. Murchie is a versatile musician whose performance schedule includes regular appearances as solo pianist, organist, choral and orchestral conductor, chamber musician and lecturer/clinician. Recent chamber music performances include appearances with the New York Philharmonic Chamber Players at Merkin Hall and with Silk Road Project violinist Colin Jacobsen. As a solo pianist, Mr. Murchie has toured Morocco and has performed in many European cities, including Vienna, Berlin, Edinburgh, Venice and Florence. Mr. Murchie made his Lincoln Center debut as an organist in works by Mozart at Alice Tully Hall.

Mr. Murchie's musical career began early, at age 10, when he joined the renowned St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. He appeared as treble soloist on St. Thomas' 20th Century Services. He was graduated summa cum laude from Yale College, where he was named "most promising and gifted composer." His Paean for brass and woodwinds was chosen to open a concert dedicating the new Yale School of Music campus. After college, Mr. Murchie returned to St. Thomas as Organ Scholar and as a member of the Choir School faculty. He later served St. James' Church, Madison Avenue as organist and director of the church's professional choir, which, in 1999, released Christmas at St. James', produced by Bejun Mehta.