Professor of Music
Degrees
Doctor of Musical Arts, Yale University
Master of Music; Master of Musical Arts, Yale University
Bachelor of Music, Stetson University
Office: Aquinas Room 113
Office Hours: M/W 2–3 pm
Phone: 845-569-3183
email: durward.entrekin@msmc.edu
Courses
MUS 166 Voice Workshop
MUS 402.1 Beatles/Music of the 1960s
MUS 402.5 Opera in New York
Bio
Professor of Music Durward Entrekin is a graduate of Stetson
University and the Yale School of Music, where he received the
doctor of musical arts degree. He has studied with Thomas Murray,
Paul Jenkins and Jane Douglas. While at Yale, Professor Entrekin
earned the Julia Sherman Prize for excellence in organ performance.
Only the second organist in Yale’s history to win the Woolsey
Sprague Concerto Competition, he was heralded by The New York Times
as the individual “…who set the competition’s high tone with his
exciting lead-off performance.”
In addition to his position as professor of music at Mount Saint
Mary College, Professor Entrekin also serves as music director of
St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands in Garrison, New York, and was
formerly Associate Organist/Choir Master of the Brick Presbyterian
Church in New York City. From 1990-1992 he was Dean of the Central
Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Professor
Entrekin has concertized extensively on the East Coast and has also
performed in the Midwest, Canada, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
and Sweden. He can be heard with hornist Willie Ruff and organist
Thomas Murray in a recording of Hindemith’s horn concerto on the
Kepler label.