FC Artistic Director

Andrew Jonathan Welch, Artistic Director

Like Mozart, Fauré, and countless others before him, Andrew Jonathan Welch is a freelance musician whose career combines performance, composition, leadership and teaching. Andrew serves as the 15th artistic director of the Falmouth Chorale, where he programs and leads ensembles in 11 performances of 7 different programs each season. He is also the artistic director of the Epiphany Festival, which celebrates its 5th season in 2025 with concerts exploring the legacy of Maurice Ravel on his 150th birthday. Recent recording projects include a CD released on Tonsehen with trumpet player Luke Spence and with saxophonist Noah Getz on Albany Records, with whom he premiered Chris Potter’s Sonata for Soprano Saxophone.

This summer Andrew completed a new orchestral reduction of Lili Boulanger’s Psaume CXXX: his earlier 13-instrument reduction of Elgar’s The Music Makers will be performed this year in Dallas and Tampa Bay following previous performances with the Georgetown Chorale and the City Choir of Washington. He has also recently completed two piano-vocal reductions of works by John Harbison at the request of the composer.

Additionally, Andrew is the director of music ministries at Allin Congregational Church in Dedham, MA, where he conducts the Allin Choir and performs weekly on the church’s historic 1912 Opus 197 E. M. Skinner organ. Andrew has written numerous anthems for the Allin choir and has inaugurated an annual lessons and carols service alongside other concert performances for the congregation. He has also designed and instituted a young artist-in-residence program which has brought numerous high school students to Allin to study church music.

Andrew studied piano performance at American University, the University of Maryland, and the Aspen Music Festival, where his performance and research interests included many contemporary works and culminated in his doctoral dissertation on the pedagogical influence of Olivier Messiaen. Currently, he teaches music theory and chamber music as part of the music faculty at Brown University and the New England Conservatory. He also maintains a private studio in his home in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he teaches piano and coaches singers.