Andrew Jacob holds an active career as an organist and church musician. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from St. Olaf College and a Master of Music degree in organ performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) where he was a Kenan Organ Scholar. His primary teachers have included Dr. Catherine Rodland and James E. Bobb at St. Olaf and Dr. Timothy Olsen at UNCSA.

At St. Olaf, Andy is the Music Director of the college’s internationally syndicated sacred music radio show, Sing For Joy. Each week, the program airs sacred choral music following the scriptural lessons specified in the Revised Common Lectionary. In addition to his role at St. Olaf, Andy serves as the Organist and Co-Director of Music at Augustana Lutheran Church in West St. Paul, MN. He has held past positions as the Director of Traditional Worship at Rehobeth United Methodist Church in Greensboro, NC, the Inaugural Organ Scholar at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta, GA, and Interim Cantor to the St. Olaf College Student Congregation.

Andy has appeared as a recitalist and hymn festival leader around the country in academic institutions and churches of various denominations. A multiple prize winner, he is the recipient of the 2019 Ruth and Paul Manz Scholarship administered by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, the 2020 American Guild of Organists’ Student Commissioning Project Grant, and the 2021 Richard VanScriver Church Music Scholarship in Organ through Metropolitan Music Ministries in Charlotte, NC.

Andy’s greatest joy at the organ comes when leading a worshiping congregation in song. He regularly incorporates improvisation into his service playing, working to find ways to exegete hymn texts through music. He has been invited to coach hymn playing and improvisation techniques at continuing education conferences for organists and church musicians.