Faculty Biography

David McCarthy, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2700
mccarthy95@hotmail.com

Departmental Responsibilities:
Arranging


Education:
Houghton College, MM
Eastman School of Music, MA
McGill University, BM

Biography:
David McCarthy was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He has graduate degrees in music theory from the Eastman School of Music and in organ from Houghton College, and the ChM and AAGO (S. Lewis Elmer award, 2006) diplomas from the American Guild of Organists. He teaches music history at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and instrumentation and orchestration at Nazareth College. His compositions are published by Paraclete Press and Augsburg Fortress, and on his Web site. He is the organist and choir director at Incarnation Episcopal church in Penfield, New York, and lives in Brighton, New York with his wife Sherry and daughter Leah.