Gerald Hendrie

Gerald Mills Hendrie, (born 28 October 1935; at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex), is an English scholar, composer, organist, pianist and harpsichordist.

• Framlingham College, Suffolk, 1949–52, Foundation Scholar
• Royal College of Music (RCM), 1952–54, Foundation Scholar, Piano (ARCM in Organ Performing 1953, Piano Teaching 1953, Piano Performing 1954); Gained Sir Walter Parratt prize.
• Selwyn College, Cambridge 1954–61, Organ Scholar. (BA 1957, MusB with distinction 1958, MA 1961, Ph.D. 1962);
• Royal College of Organists (RCO), FRCO (1956)
• Studied at the RCM with Geoffrey Tankard, Harold Darke, William Harris, Herbert Howells; at Cambridge with Thurston Dart and Patrick Hadley; privately with Ralph Downes, André Marchal

• Director of Music, Homerton College, Cambridge 1962-3
• Lecturer in Music, University of Manchester 1963-7
• Founding Professor of Music, University of Victoria, British Columbia 1967-69
• Founding Professor of Music, Open University 1969-85 (early retirement)
• Director of Studies in Music, St John’s College, Cambridge 1980-83
• Visiting Fellow, University of Western Australia 1985 (following earlier visits)

• An Edition and Critical Study of the Keyboard Music of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), 2 vols., doctoral dissertation University of Cambridge October 1961
• The Keyboard Music of Orlando Gibbons in Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association vol. 89, 1962/63
• Handel’s ‘Chandos’ and Associated Anthems: An Introductory Survey in ed. Peter Williams, Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985, Tercentenary Essays, Cambridge University Press 1985
• Some Reflections on the Keyboard Music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) in Studies in Music, Number 22, 1988, University of Western Australia Department of Music
• The English Lute-Songs 1st Series, vol. 17, co-editor with Thurston Dart of John Coprario: Funeral Teares, Songs of Mourning, The Masque of Squires Stainer & Bell 1959
• Musica Britannica XX, Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music (= Collected Keyboard Music) Stainer & Bell for the Royal Musical Association 1962, 2nd revised edition 1974, 3rd revised edition 2010
• Hallische Händel-Ausgabe/Halle Handel Society, Collected Works of Georg Friedrich Händel, Anthems für Cannons 3 vols. Bärenreiter 1985, 1987, 1991; Anthems für die Chapel Royal Bärenreiter 1994, Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate Bärenreiter 1998
• Gilbert & Sullivan: The Operas (critical editions in full score) Iolanthe 3 vols., The Broude Trust NY 2018; Iolanthe vocal score, The Broude Trust 2019

Piano

• Five Bagatelles for Piano Stainer & Bell 1980
• Four Excursions for Piano Stainer & Bell 1983
• Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation(an arrangement of Organ Sonata, commemorates 50th anniversary of end of WW2)Anglo-American, henceforth AAMP 1997
• A Handful of Rags Gérard Billaudot Editeur, Paris 2015
• Another Handful of Rags Gérard Billaudot Editeur, Paris 2015

Organ

• Speculo PetroAAMP 1988
• Choral: Hommage à César FranckAAMP 1990
• Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré(= Toccata & Fugue*, Prelude & Fugue, Prelude & Fugue on the name BACH, Two Sketches on the name BACH, published individually)AAMP 1990-92
• recorded by John Scott , St Ignatius Church NY, 20th-Century Masterpieces Priory records 1998,Gabriel Dessauer at St Bonifatius, Wiesbaden (GEMA 1999) and Paul Carr at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham UK, French Flavours, Regent Records 2012); also on YouTube from Washington Cathedral, USA.
• Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph(commissioned by St Asaph Festival, UK)AAMP 1994
• Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation(a US commission; see also above, Piano)AAMP 1997

Flute & Piano

• Three PiecesAAMP 1985

Brass

• Quintet for Brass (for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble)AAMP 1988

Church Music

• As I outrode this endris night(i) carol for SS, organ or pianoNovello 1959; recorded by the cathedral choirs of Canterbury, York Minster, Carlisle; also by Selwyn College, Cambridge& others (ii) for SATB Novello 1978; this version for the Service of Nine Lessons & * Carols, King’s College Cambridge.
• Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sang, carol for SS, Organ/Piano Novello 1960
• There is no Rose, carol for SATB, Novello 1984, recorded by Lichfield Cathedral Choir, Nimbus Records 1996
• Four Consolations (texts by Boethius) for SATB unacc.Paraclete 1996
• Ave verum Corpus for ATB/SATB unacc. Williams School of Church Music 1978, subsequently AAMP
• If thou wouldst see God’s laws, SATB, organ or pianoAAMP 1988
• Preces and Responses, SATB, for St John’s College, CambridgeAAMP 1980s
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for St John’s College, CambridgeAAMP 1986
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for New College, OxfordAAMP 1986
• Te Deum & Jubilate, men’s voices and organ, for St Paul’s Cathedral, LondonAAMP 1998
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis boy’s voices and organ, for St Paul’s Cathedral, LondonAAMP 1988
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for Canterbury CathedralAAMP 1993
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, ATB, organ, for Canterbury CathedralAAMP 1994
• Requiem for soprano solo, SATB and organ, optional timpani (3), cello (premiered in Auch Festival, France)AAMP 1997

Unpublished/unsubmitted

• Missa Aquitaniae for soprano solo, SATB, organ (premiered in Auch Festival, 2003
• Sounat Campanetos carol for SATB, Gascon & English texts, 2005
• Twelve New Rags for Piano (four of which are arranged for organ) (2015-19)
• Pastorale & Fughetta for organ (2018-19)

• He has performed as organist, pianist and harpsichordist around the world and broadcast for ABC, BBC, CBC.
• Guest recitalist at the Halle Handel Festival 1981.