Andrew-John Bethke
BETHKE, Andrew-John. b. Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 8 May 1982.
Andrew-John (AJ) Bethke is a scholar, composer, conductor, and organist in the performance of sacred music and academic research in Anglican music, liturgy, and theology.
His father Anthony (b. 1945) is a Methodist minister (now retired), and his mother Erica (b. 1948) is a professional editor. Both sides of the family come from a long line of ordained clergy, ensuring a family strongly influenced by Methodist values. At the age of three, standing on the pew singing the refrain of ‘To God be the glory, great things He hath done’* next to his mother, he decided to become an organist. To realise this ambition, he started...
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