Alfred V. Fedak, noted organist and composer, is Minister of Music and the Arts at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York, having held previous church positions in New Jersey and Michigan. He is active in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and in the American Guild of Organists, having served from 1995-2000 as Director of the National Certification Committee. To date he has published nearly 100 individual compositions including anthems, mass settings, vocal solos, and organ music. He has also composed over 80 hymn tunes which appear in various collections and denominational hymnals, including The Alfred V. Fedak Hymnary, published in 1990, Sing to the Lord No Threadbare Song: New Hymntunes of Alfred V. Fedak, published in 2001, and God of the Future: New Hymntunes of Alfred V. Fedak, published in 2009.

Fedak was born July 4, 1953 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He earned B.A. and B.M. degrees from Hope College, and an M.A. from Montclair State University. A Fellow of the American Guild of Organists he also holds the Guild's Choirmaster Certificate. He is the recipient of numerous prizes in organ performance and composition, including the A.G.O.'s S. Lewis Elmer Award for national high score on Guild exams.

An interview with Al Fedak appeared in Selah's newsletter Music in Worship, and you can read it online to find out more about this fine composer.

Send an e-mail to Al Fedak (This will be automatically forwarded to him. Put your e-mail address in the body of the letter so that he will know your address.) You may also learn more about Al Fedak and his work at www.alfredfedak.com

Large Choral Works
For Us the Living
A Requiem by Alfred V. Fedak
An eight movement work for choir and organ or choir and orchestra (Fedak, SATB, 440-820, Mod. diff.)

Organ/Keyboard publications
Meditation on Adoro te Devote (Alfred V. Fedak, organ collection, 160-611, Mod. easy)
Advent/Christmas Suite, An (Alfred V. Fedak, organ collection, 160-112, Mod. diff.)
Divinum Mysterium (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-116, Mod. easy)
New! Epiphanies: Three Hymn Settings (Alfred V. Fedak, Oboe or Tpt. and Organ, 160-925 Mod. easy)
Fedak: 25 More Harmonizations, Vol. IX (Alfred V. Fedak, 160-729)
Fedak: Harmonizations, Vol. III (Alfred V. Fedak, 160-723)
Festival Prelude on Hyfrydol (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-654, Mod. easy)
Improvisation on Veni Creator Spiritus (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-513, Mod. diff.)
In Paradisum (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-662, Mod. easy)
Invocation & Dance (Alfred V. Fedak, organ and strings, 160-95x, Mod. diff.)
Lenten/Easter Suite, A (Alfred V. Fedak, organ collection, 160-123, Mod. diff.)
Lyric Suite (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-804, Mod. diff.)
Meditation on Adoro te Devote (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-611, Mod. easy)
Partita on "How Firm a Foundation" (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-621, mod. diff.)
Sonata for Worship (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-844, Mod. diff.)
Sonata II for Worship (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-845, Mod. diff.)
New! Triptych for Trumpet and Organ (Alfred V. Fedak, Tpt. and Organ, 160-979, Mod. easy-Mod. diff.)
Variations on a Ground (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-868, Mod. diff.)
Variations on BEACH SPRING (Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-641, mod. diff.)
Variations on Pange Lingua(Alfred V. Fedak, organ solo, 160-684, Mod. difficult)

Instrumental publications
Amazing Grace: NEW BRITAIN (Alfred V. Fedak, brass quintet and organ, 820-801, Mod. easy)
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing: NETTLETON (Alfred V. Fedak, brass quintet and organ, 820-802, Mod. diff.)
Sing Praise to God/Let All Creation: MIT FREUDEN ZART (Alfred V. Fedak, brass quintet and organ, 820-804, Mod. easy)