David Hurd

David Hurd (born 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American organist, composer, improviser, choral director, and teacher whose work has been especially influential in Episcopal church music. He studied at New York's High School of Music and Art, the Juilliard School, Oberlin College, and the University of North Carolina. In 1977 he won first prizes in both organ performance and improvisation at the International Congress of Organists.

Hurd served for four decades at the General Theological Seminary in New York, where he was Professor of Church Music and Organist, and he has held music positions in several New York churches. He has also taught or lectured at institutions including Duke University, Yale, the Manhattan School of Music, and Westminster Choir College.

His catalog includes organ music, choral works, liturgical settings, and hymn tunes. The tune MIGHTY SAVIOR, written in 1984 and published with copyright in 1985, was paired with the revised English text of "Christ, Mighty Savior" in The Hymnal 1982 and has since appeared with the hymn in a number of denominational collections.