Director of Music

Harvey Burgett was appointed Director of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Church of St. Thomas More in 1999 and founded the MOREMusic concert series at the church in 2000. He has performed widely in the United States and Europe as organist and chamber musician, including the National Cathedral in Washington; Harvard University Memorial Church and the Busch Reisinger Museum in Boston; the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; Fontainebleau Palace in France; Dartington Manor in England; and Weingarten Basilica in Germany. Mr. Burgett is a prolific composer whose music includes symphonic and chamber music as well as solo instrumental music and a large body of liturgical music. As an impressario, Mr. Burgett has founded the Underground Composers and the Burgett Ensemble in Boston, and the Lunchtime Concerts and MoreMusic series in New York City. His formal education included private study with Paul Jenkins and Vernon DeTar in organ; Paul Langston, Joseph Goodman, Nadia Boulanger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Theodore Antoniou, Vladamir Ussachevsky and David Del Tredici in composition; Ruth Ainsworth Schardt, Gordon Wilson and Lenore Almand in piano; Alan Rogers and Gary Thor Wedow in accompanying; Leonard Raver and Eugenia Earle in harpsichord; and Harold Giffin, Abraham Kaplan and Thomas Dunn in conducting. He has performed in master classes with Leonard Bernstein, Elliot Carter, Alberto Ginastera and Marie Claire Alain.