Amanda Husberg

[1] Before her retirement, Husberg worked for thirty-six years as a Director in one of the 450 publicly funded day care centers in New York City.

For 55 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

[2] On June 10, 2000, she was presented with the Servant of Christ award from the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod for her contribution to the greater church in the field of music, specifically in the area of hymns and congregational song.

Through the years she has played spirituals, jazz, gospel, and a variety of other styles of music, from Johann Sebastian Bach to Andraé Crouch.

She is also a member of the American Composers Forum, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and ASCAP, from which she has received yearly awards since 2001.

Husberg completed a resurrection requiem mass "A Feast Prepared", written at the request of Terrance Lindall, a renowned artist of Lutheran upbringing whose illustrations for John Milton's Paradise Lost are the most famous of the 20th century for the subject.