- Versatile performer and improviser on piano, organ, and keyboards
- From Bach and Brahms to gospel and jazz
- Composer and arranger of works for voices, piano, strings in many styles
- Over a decade of experience teaching college students to think critically about music
- Twenty years’ experience in church music leadership
- Follow on YouTube
Performance
Improvised Sonata for Horn and Piano: Finale (2004)
Free improvisation by Kris Shaffer, horn, and Andrew Cashner, piano
Recorded live, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Chicago, IL, March 2004
Performances on YouTube
Recent Appearances
- First Baptist Church, Albion, NY, 2024 (organ)
- Spiritus Christi Church, Rochester, NY, 2024 (keyboards)
- ROC Music Faculty Recital, Hochstein School of Music, Rochester, NY, 2024 (piano and voice)
Composition
Highlights
- Eighteen psalm settings for voices, piano, instruments
- Anthems and motets for chorus with piano, instruments
- Congregational hymns and worship songs
- Solo piano music
- Arrangements of pop songs for amateur string orchestra, chorus
Say Over Again (2010)
Words by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rachel Dawson, mezzosoprano, and Andrew Cashner, piano
Recorded live, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2011
Prelude on a Mozarabic Sanctus (Hommage à Debussy) (2004)
An homage to Claude Debussy’s own Hommage à Rameau from Images bk. I, based on a Sanctus chant from the Spanish Mozarabic tradition
Andrew Cashner, piano
Live performance in Fort Wayne, IN, December 2004
Professional Experience
Teaching
| Keyboard Instructor | ROC Music | Rochester, NY | 2023–Present |
| Assistant professor of music | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | 2017–Present |
| Assistant professor of musicology | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | 2015–17 |
| Instructor, Teaching assistant | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2012–14 |
| Private teacher, piano and organ | Personal studio | South Bend and Fort Wayne, IN | 2006–09 |
Sacred Music
| Substitute Organist | Freelance | Rochester, NY | 2023–Present |
| Director of Worship and Creative Arts | New Hope Free Methodist Church | Rochester, NY | 2019–23 |
| Organist | St. Peter’s Episcopal Church | Chicago, IL | 2014–15 |
| Substitute Organist | Freelance | Chicago, IL | 2011–14 |
| Organist and Choir Director | St. Paul Lutheran Church | Chesterton, IN | 2007–09 |
| Director of Music | Grace Presbyterian Church | Fort Wayne, IN | 2004–06 |
| Worship Intern | First English Lutheran Church | Appleton, WI | 2002–03 |