David Heinze, Organist
Latvian-American organist, Dāvids Heinze earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Cambridge where he was Graduate Organ Scholar at Selwyn College under Sarah MacDonald as well as Organist for St. John’s Voices at St. John’s College.
A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, he is an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Academy and Hope College and has studied with Thomas Bara, Huw Lewis, Margaret Phillips, and Jeremy Tarrant. David won First Prize and Audience Prize in the L. Cameron Johnson Young Organists Competition and First Prize in the Annamae Rotman Organ Competition. During his time at Hope, he served as Organ Scholar at Trinity United Methodist Church in Grand Rapids and then as the John L. Edwards Organ Scholar at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Detroit, and Organ Scholar for The Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys.
As a recitalist and accompanist, he has performed throughout the US, UK, and Europe, including at Ely, St. Paul's (London), Bury St. Edmund's and Peterborough Cathedrals, The American Cathedral in Paris, St. John's Lafayette Square (D.C.), Trinity Copley Square (Boston), Church of the Advent (Boston), St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit), Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor), and Cattedrale di San Lorenzo (Lugano, Switzerland.
David holds the Associate Diploma of the Royal College of Organists and in January 2022, won First Prize in The National Competition for Organ Accompaniment, co-sponsored by Schoenstein & Co. Organ Builders and the American Guild of Organists, Washington, D.C. Chapter. He was a featured solo recitalist at the American Guild of Organists’ 2019 Great Lakes Regional Convention, where he played on the historic 1929 E.M. Skinner Organ in Dimnent Chapel at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
He currently serves as Associate Director of Music & Organist at Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Providence, Rhode Island where he assists in the administration of a robust music department that boasts an RSCM-based chorister programme, semi-professional parish choir, professional choral ensemble-in-residence, a monthly concert series, and monthly services of choral evensong and choral compline.
