Gerald Hendrie
Background information
Birth name	Gerald Mills Hendrie
Born	(1935-10-28) 28 October 1935 Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Academic, musicologist, composer
Instrument(s)	Organ, piano, harpsichord

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

Education

• 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 Geraint Jones, John Dykes Bower, Ralph Downes, and André Marchal

Locums

• Christmas 1955, Acting Assistant Organist, Canterbury Cathedral including first-ever Eurovision

Broadcast, ‘Carols from Canterbury’.

• 1960-61 Acting Organist and Choirmaster, Norwich Cathedral
• During 1962, Acting Assistant Organist, Ely Cathedral

Academic posts

• 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)

Publications (articles & editions)

• 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
• Half-way Towards the 21 st Century: Music at Britain's Open University 1970-85 in International

Journal of Music Education May 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

Publications (compositions)

Performance

• 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.

Recordings

• Gerald Hendrie Complete Organ Music Volume 1 (comprising Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré Sicilienne, Choral: Hommage à César Franck, Specula Petro, Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph), Tom Winpenny, organ of St Albans Cathedral, Toccata Classics 2023. A review from the British Music Society for this recording can be found here.

References

1. Choral: Hommage à César Franck, review by Paul Hale in Organists’ Review, December 1990
2. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Iolanthe. Full Score. Review by James Brooks Kuykendall in Notes, December 2018
3. Iolanthe Full Score published by The Broude Trust. Review by Roger Wild in Sullivan Society journal, January 2019
4. Requiem review by Paul Hale in Organists’ Review, August 1999