Short Name: | Andrew Donaldson |
Full Name: | Donaldson, Andrew, 1951- |
Birth Year: | 1951 |
Andrew Donaldson, a composer and church musician, grew up in northern Ontario, Canada. He attended Glendon College, York University in Toronto, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He went on to study classical guitar performance at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, receiving its ARCT (Associate of Royal Conservatory Teachers) degree in 1979. Since then he has worked as a composer and performer in many contexts, in both French and English.
Andrew co-edited the Book of Praise (1997), Presbyterian Church in Canada, with Donald Anderson. Their company, Binary Editions, continues to administer copyright for the PCC.
In 2007 he was made a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, by Knox College of the University of Toronto, for his body of work in congregational song in the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
In 2011 Andrew and his wife, Wendy, moved to Geneva, Switzerland where Andrew works as a worship consultant to the World Council of Churches.
--Submitted by Andrew and Wendy Donaldson, 13 August 2013
Tunes by Andrew Donaldson (32) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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FOREST BLUE | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | |
[Better take shelter, better take shelter] | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | |
[Our mouth was filled with laughter] | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | |
AS A HART LONGS | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | |
[Why do the powerful have it so good?] | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | |
SHOUT FOR JOY | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 11176 51351 23455 |
WEST INDIAN OUR FATHER | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 2 | 11751 17511 12235 |
PATER NOSTER (DONALDSON) | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 12325 17567 36563 |
BURNING BUSH | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 12332 17112 33432 |
WE WILL GO OUT WITH JOY | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 12333 33243 12321 |
BA NI NGYETI | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 13333 22224 44433 |
SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 15554 51235 12321 |
[Our Father who art in heaven] (West Indian) | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 17511 17511 11223 |
DE JERSEY | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 31313 15631 31712 |
TU FIDELIDAD | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 6 | 32345 55642 12344 |
YISU NE KAHA | Andrew Donaldson, b. 1951 (Arranger) | 2 | 33332 35655 33322 |
[My love colours outside the lines] | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 33333 51123 33333 |
WINEPRESS | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 34556 54513 45565 |
BROWNING (Light) | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 35432 35432 35432 |
IL EST NÉ | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 51131 51111 23432 |
UNE JEUNE PUCELLE | Andrew Donaldson (Composer (Accompaniment)) | 1 | 51234 32171 1271 |
THIS ONE THING | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 51715 51715 62126 |
SHE FLIES ON | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 54335 51345 51656 |
LINSTEAD (Jamaican) | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 55351 66543 23455 |
WHOLE WORLD (Spiritual) | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 55353 13555 55442 |
AGNUS DEI (DONALDSON) | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 55457 55143 55654 |
[River running in you and me] | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 55555 66511 11112 |
LORD, O LORD OUR GOD | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 55645 35135 34427 |
[Jesus, Jesus, Jesus in the morning] | Andrew Donaldson, 1951- (Arranger) | 1 | 56132 11111 21111 |
ARIRANG | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 1 | 56561 21232 32165 |
[That day in Jerusalem] | Andrew Donaldson (Composer) | 2 | 56765 11332 55332 |
[Come touch our hearts] | Andrew Donaldson (Arranger) | 2 | 55435 43212 55543 |