The RSCMA Carolina Summer Choral Residency is pleased to welcome Reverend Andrew Kryzak as this year’s Chaplain!

The Rev. Andrew A. Kryzak is the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Stamford, Connecticut. His ordained ministry has taken place entirely in parishes with a significant musical life, and he has consistently advocated for the central place of the Anglican choral tradition in the Episcopal Church.

Prior to his arrival in Stamford, Andrew served as associate rector of Christ Church, Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., where he supported Christ Church’s all-professional choir and helped expand its ministry. He served his curacy at Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he worked closely with the parish’s significant RSCM choral program, serving as chaplain to its choirs of men, boys, and girls.

A specialist in mainline church revitalization, he has worked with Episcopal congregations and dioceses to advance church growth and was awarded a Pastoral Study Project grant by the Louisville Institute for his independent research in congregational development.

Andrew trained for the ministry at Yale Divinity School, earning the Master of Divinity and a diploma in Anglican studies from Berkeley Divinity School. He holds an STM from the General Theological Seminary, where for his thesis he was awarded the Alumni Prize in Ecclesiastical History. Raised in the Episcopal Church, he is in the eleventh generation of his family in the New World to worship according to the Book of Common Prayer. A native New Yorker, he grew up in northern Dutchess County and was educated at Hotchkiss, Duke, and Columbia. Prior to divinity school, while playing the organ every Sunday, he worked for the New-York Historical Society and for the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell.

His academic and personal interests include Western history; sacred music; Classical and Gothic architecture; detective fiction; railroads; and the city of New York. He is an avid and longtime pianist, organist, and tennis player and enjoys reading, writing, and long walks. He and his wife, Hannah, have a daughter, Eleanor, and live in Stamford.