Hailed by The Miami Herald for his “superb continuo… brilliantly improvised and ornamented,” GRAMMY-nominated historical keyboardist, composer, and conductor Henry Lebedinsky has performed with the Seattle Bach Festival, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Charlotte Symphony, Seraphic Fire, Sonoma Bach, and the Cantata Collective, among others. Recent conducting engagements include the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Sonoma Bach’s Live Oak Baroque Orchestra. As part of a career built on collaboration, he serves as co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco Bay Area’s AGAVE and was co-Artistic Director of Seattle’s Pacific MusicWorks from 2018 to 2023. With countertenor Reginald L. Mobley, he has introduced listeners on three continents to music by Black composers from Baroque to modern, including recent appearances at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and Festival Printemps Musical des Alizés in Morocco. In 2014, he founded Seattle’s Early Music Underground, which brought Baroque music to brewpubs, wineries, and other places where people gather, and presenting it in multimedia contexts which both entertain and educate.

 

A committed educator, Lebedinsky has taught masterclasses and led workshops on historical performance practice at the University of Edinburgh, the Juilliard School, the North Carolina School of the Arts, SUNY Fredonia, and others. His works for choir and organ are published by Paraclete Press, Carus-Verlag Stuttgart, and CanticaNOVA, and two volumes of his poetry and hymns are in preparation. He is a contributing editor to Multitude of Voyces' Sacred Music by Women Composers series, published by Stainer and Bell (UK), and has written program notes for London's Wigmore Hall and the Alpha Classics and Acis Productions labels. He holds degrees from Bowdoin College and the Longy School of Music, where he earned a Master of Music in historical organ performance as a student of Peter Sykes. Currently in his third decade as a church musician, he serves as Missioner for Music at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church on Washington's beautiful Whidbey Island.