| Summary: | Music director, music professor, and pastor Reverend Dwight Douglas Andrews was born on September 24, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan. He received his B.A. degree in 1973 and his M.A. degree in music from the University of Michigan. At Yale University, Andrews earned his M.Div. degree in 1977 and his Ph.D. in music theory in 1993. Ordained as a minister in 1978, Andrews served as associate pastor of Yale's Christ's Church. As the Yale Repertory Theatre's resident music director, he composed scores for most of August Wilson's Broadway plays. Andrews also composed movie and television scores. From 1994, Andrews worked as an associate professor of music theory at Emory University and serves as pastor of First Congregational Church. Andrews, the first Quincy Jones Visiting Professor of African American Music at Harvard University in 1997, received the Pew Trust/TCG Artist Residency Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship and Emory University's Distinguished Teacher Award.
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