Henry Danaher

Henry Danaher '08 serves as College Organist for the William Jewett Tucker Center, providing music for Baccalaureate and the MLK, Jr. Day Celebration, and giving organ performances, either during special occasions such as First Year Family Weekend, or simply to highlight student performers or a special theme. He fields requests for music at other ceremonies in Rollins Chapel, such as weddings or memorial services for both individuals and for Alumni classes during their reunions. He coordinates the maintenance of the pipe organ at Rollins Chapel, an instrument of 3,937 pipes given by Basil F. Austin '31, and together with the Chaplain, approves requests to play the instrument.

Henry is the Director of Music at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, where he leads the Ives Recital series, directs the church's choral and handbell programs, and prepares the instrumental music at Sunday worship, which features frequent musical guests from both the Dartmouth and wider community. He has accompanied the Dartmouth Glee Club and numerous student recitals over the years and also maintains a small private teaching studio focusing on the pipe organ.

While a Dartmouth undergraduate, Henry majored in Mathematics, attending the Math in Moscow program in 2005 on an American Mathematical Society Scholarship; belonged to the Glee Club, Handel Society, and Chamber Singers; earned academic citations in the Psychology of Learning and in Counterpoint; served as a teaching assistant for music theory and conducting courses; music-directed student musicals such as The Last Five Years; participated in a conducting Masterclass taught by Helmuth Rilling; performed and conducted with the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra; and was awarded the Mark L. Lebowitz 1977 Memorial Prize in the Performing Arts.