Thanksgiving Oratorio: The Thomas Aquinas College Choir

Duruflé’s Requiem, featuring organist Mark Husey 

Raised in rural Maryland and trained at Westminster Choir College as student of the late Eugene Roan and Canadian soprano Lorna MacDonald, Mark Husey is acclaimed as a “world renowned organist” and “YouTube organ influencer” and became Director of Pastoral Music & Communications at St. Ambrose, West Hollywood in March 2021.  Widely known as an accomplished tenor, accompanist, and improvisateur, he concurrently assists as organist at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles), Christ Cathedral (Garden Grove), and St. John Fisher Church (Rancho Palos Verdes). 

Mr. Husey has concertized in Belgium, China, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; his Saint Jude Fanfare has been performed at the Vatican. He’s been featured as tenor with the GRAMMY-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Florida Grand Opera Chorus, and as organist with Symphony Orchestra Augusta, the Tropical Baroque Festival, New Trinity Baroque, and the Opera Camerata of Washington. Local performances as tenor have been with the de Angelis Vocal Ensemble and as organist with the Dream Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels), with the Idyllwild Festival Orchestra and Chorus (Fauré’s Requiem at Walt Disney Concert Hall), and with the award-winning Gracias Choir on the monumental organ at Los Angeles’ First Congregational Church.

His 35+ years vocation as a pastoral musician and his passionate use of historic music for catechesis and community outreach influenced two generations of alumni choristers and choral scholars who have achieved distinction in sacred music, opera, vocal performance, composition, and academia. His 10 years as Organist & Choirmaster at historic Saint Peter’s Catholic Church in the capital city of Columbia, South Carolina included the creation of two YouTube channels amassing over 6 million views. His music ministry was the inspiration for the installations of the first Peragallo pipe organs in Arizona and Texas, and his advocacy became the impetus for Saint Peter’s elevation as the first minor basilica in the Palmetto State.

Part of the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series, endowed by Barbara and Paul Henkels. Open to alumni and friends of the College, free of charge, in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.