St. Luke's Music Program
Saint Luke's Music program is recruiting volunteers this fall.
St. Luke's Church is growing its music ministry. Here are ways you and your children can get involved.
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To participate in any of our music ministry offerings, please contact Jeffrey Hoffman, our Organist and Director of Music, by e-mailing him at jeffrey@estlukes.org.
1 / St. Nicholas Choir (K-2nd grade)
Wednesday afternoons at 5 pm until 5:30 pm, occasionally on Sunday mornings.
This is an introductory choir for children from kindergarten through the second grade, which will meet every Wednesday afternoon for thirty minutes at 5 pm, and will sing occasionally for church services and other parish events throughout the program year.
2 / RSCM Choir (3rd grade - 8th grade)
Wednesday afternoons from 5:30 pm until 6:20 pm, Sunday mornings at 9:45 am
This is our children's chorister program for children in the third through eighth grades, which is affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music, offering a solid musical education within our liturgical context. The choristers rehearse each Wednesday from 5:30 pm until 6:20 pm and participate in weekly liturgies and other special events, including Choral Evensong.
3 / St. Luke's Parish Choir (high school and older)
Wednesdays evenings from 6:30 until 8:15 pm, Sunday mornings at 9:15 am
For singers in high school, college, and beyond, our St. Luke's Parish Choir welcomes newcomers on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 pm until 8:15 pm, and again on Sunday mornings at 9:15 am. Our Parish Choir emphasizes the rich Anglican and Catholic tradition of sacred choral music, while also exploring music of our own time, and music by women and minority-identified composers. In addition to Sunday morning Holy Eucharist, we will be expanding our offerings of Choral Evensong and possibly Choral Masterworks concert performances in the 2025-2026 season. In July of 2025, our Parish Choir will be traveling to Worcester Cathedral in England for a week-long, daily Evensong and Sunday Eucharist residence (with a beginning one-day residence at Trinity Church, where William Shakespeare worshipped, in Stratford-upon-Avon).
4 / St. Luke's Handbell Choir
Thursday evenings at 6:00pm.
St. Luke's owns a 2-octave set of tone chimes, with which we hope to inaugurate a new handbell choir here at St. Luke's Church. Prior handbell experience is helpful but not essential to your participation in a handbell choir, but being able to read music is important.
5 / Instrumental Music Program
To be determined based on interest.
If you play a musical instrument, we'd love to create opportunities for you to participate in our program, as well. Please email Jeffrey Hoffman and let him know of your instrument(s) and your personal assessment of your skill level.
St. Luke's Historic Choir
St. Luke's got it's first hand-pumped organ in 1852 and was in use until 1913. The St. Luke's Boys Choir performed for the first time in April 1883 to commemorate the addition of the the church's bell tower.​
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Pictured: St. Luke's Boys Choir in the early 1900's.
