The Reverend Sherman Hesselgrave

Sherman's introduction to the pipe organ was accidental. The Leipzig Mission Society sent a one-manual, 6-stop
mechanical action Walcker in crates to the Lutheran congregation at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro, where Sherman's
parents were missionaries. His piano teacher also played the organ and gave him his first lessons when he was in
grade six.

Returning to the States to finish high school, Sherman continued to study the organ and had church positions through
university and graduate school. Because he intended a career in academic music librarianship, he pursued master's
degrees in both library science and musicology, and had worked as a music librarian for six years when he was called to
holy orders. Before coming to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, Toronto, he was in parish ministry in the
Pacific Northwest for more than twenty years.