Hampson Sisler

American composer Hampson Sisler (1932–2020) was born in Yonkers, New York, and began to show a prodigious talent at an early age. By the age of twelve he was taken under the tutelage of David McK Williams and Norman Coke-Jephcott and began performing professionally on his major instrument, organ, and conducting choruses. He earned a licentiate in Organ and Related Subjects from Trinity College of Music, London, at age sixteen and achieved the fellowship rank in the American Guild of Organists at age seventeen – the youngest ever for this distinction.” He has served seventeen churches, most notably Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. He has written more than one hundred works for solo instruments, organ, voice, choir and orchestra, which have been performed in Bulgaria, Israel, Czech Republic, Russia and the United States.