Andrew Cyr

Artistic Director

Conductor and organist Andrew Cyr is one of today's emerging leaders in contemporary music, commissioning, premiering, and recording new works from some of the freshest voices in music composition, including Timo Andres, David Bruce, Jakub Ciupinski, Avner Dorman, Ryan Francis, Ryan Gallagher, Raymond Lustig, Ricardo Romaneiro, and Cristina Spinei.  Gathering the finest young chamber musicians and soloists in New York City, he founded the Metropolis Ensemble in 2006.

Mr. Cyr’s repertoire as organist spans from the Baroque masterpieces of Bach and Couperin to the great Romantic and Modern works of Franck, Widor, Tournemire, and Messiaen.  As conductor, his programs consistently feature many of the twentieth century’s most influential and leading composers, including Stravinsky, Ravel, Shostakovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Britten, Osvaldo Golijov, Copland, Virgil Thomson, Kurt Weill and David Schiff. 

Mr. Cyr has collaborated with some of the most talented performers of contemporary music, including mandolinist Avi Avital, pianists Eliran Avni, Steve Beck, and Anna Polonsky, vocal artists Hai-Ting Chin, Kiera Duffy, Daniel Neer, Melissa Fogarty, and Hila Plitmann, flutist Mindy Kaufman, violinists Arnaud Sussmann and Lily Francis, and saxophonist Marty Ehrlich.  His debut as recording artist featuring the chamber orchestra concerti of Avner Dorman was made in collaboration with the Grammy-winner Classical Producer of the Year (2005), David Frost, and is scheduled for international release in the fall of 2008.  Mr. Cyr has worked and appeared with the following ensembles: L’Orchestre National Des Pays de la Loire, France, D'Angers Nantes Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Concergebouw Orchestra, Masterworks Chorus, Westminster Symphonic Choir, and Rutgers University Opera, among others.

A native of Maine and resident of New York City, Mr. Cyr has studied trumpet with Jules Modat at the French National Conservatory (Etudes supérieures), organ with Dr. Marion Anderson at Bates College, Pierre Grandmaison of the Basilique de Notre-Dame, Montreal, Stefan Engels of the Hochschule fur Musik and Theater, and Harvey Burgett, St. Thomas More Church, choral conducting with Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt and Dr. Andrew Megill of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, and orchestral conducting with Kynan Johns of Rutgers University and Kenneth Kiesler of the University of Michigan.  He has served as lecturer in conducting at Rutgers University and as Assistant Organist for the Church of St. Thomas More, NY, NY and the Basilique de Notre-Dame, Montreal, and is currently the Titular Organist at Our Lady of Grace Church, New Jersey’s largest historic Gothic church, and a member of the adjunct music faculty at St. David’s School, a distinguished private school in Manhattan.