Hentus van Rooyen

Dr. Hentus van Rooyen is active as organist, director, and pedagogue in the greater Portland Area. He serves Director of Music Ministries and Organist at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, ME, and teaches applied organ lessons at Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine. Additionally, he is on the faculty of the Young Organists Collaborative, and is the Chorusmaster for the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Magic of Christmas Chorus.  

Prior to his relocation to Maine, Hentus served as Assistant Professor of Music, Sacred Music Coordinator and College Organist at Bethany College in Lindsborg KS, and as the Director of Music and Organist at Christ Episcopal Cathedral in Salina, KS. Hentus holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from the University of North Texas. His other degrees in organ performance, pedagogy, and church music were completed at the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa.

Hentus regularly performs in venues such as the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine; Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts; Trinity Episcopal Church, Boston, Massachusetts; Wiedemann Hall in Wichita, Kansas; The Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Moscow, Russia; St. Catherine Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg, Rusland; and the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.