“Blow the trumpet in the new moon” - regal music for trumpet and organ on the Feast of Christ the King

On November 23, 2025 at 4 pm, in celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, Jeffrey Hoffman, St. Luke's Episcopal Church's organist and director of music will be joined by the Jackson Symphony's Dr. Joey Moore in presenting a concert of music for trumpet and organ in repertoire spanning five centuries by some of the world’s great composers. Inspired by Psalm 81: 3 (“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.”), the duo will perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Félix Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708-1776), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), and Henri Sauget (1901-1989). This concert is sponsored by the Friends of Music at St. Luke's Church and is free of charge and open to the public. St. Luke's Church is located at 309 E. Baltimore Street in Jackson, TN.

Joey Moore, trumpet

Joey Moore enjoys an active career as a performer and educator. Now in his tenth year as a member of the Jackson Symphony, he enjoys an active freelance career and has performed with ensembles such as the Palm Beach Opera, South Florida Symphony, and Crescendo Summer Institute Opera Orchestra in Sarastopak, Hungary. As a first prize winner in the Golden Classical Music Awards International Solo Competition, he performed at Carnegie Hall in December, 2022.

As an educator, he teaches applied trumpet on the adjunct faculties of the University of Memphis and Bethel University. He also teaches pre-college brass at Concordia Conservatory at Concordia Lutheran Church in Jackson, Tennessee. A Jackson native, Joey holds a Master of Music from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied with Richard Stoelzel, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Memphis where he studied with David Spencer.

Jeffrey Hoffman, organ

Jeffrey Hoffman comes to St. Luke’s Church in Jackson following seventeen years as organist and director of music (choirmaster) for Christ Church, in Pelham, New York and seven years at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church on Staten Island. At Christ Church, Pelham, he led an ambitious choral program, administered the Concerts at Christ Church concert series, conducted performances of many choral masterworks with professional soloists and orchestra, and oversaw the installation of the new Juget-Sinclair pipe organ in 2019.

On Staten Island, in response to the events of September 11, which decimated a number of families in the local community, he founded the critically acclaimed Music at Saint Alban’s Concert series, presenting numerous international concert artists and choral masterworks (with orchestra) in affordable public performances. Early in his career, Mr. Hoffman served as assistant organist to Robert J. Powell at Christ Church in Greenville, SC, and to Charles Callahan at Holy Family Church, New York City, the Roman Catholic parish to the United Nations.

In addition to his work as a church musician, Mr. Hoffman previously served the Rossmoor Jewish Congregation as organist, directed the Pelham Larks, a ladies’ glee club, and their sister organization, the Songpipers. He has composed award winning music for several short films, and music directed numerous high school, community theater, regional, and summer stock productions of musicals and operettas. For fourteen years, he served on the theater faculty at Long Island’s Usdan Center for the Arts, recently conducting the Usdan Troupe in productions of Candide, Les Miserables, Little Women, and Titanic.

Mr. Hoffman is a native of Greenville, South Carolina, where he grew up on and around the campus of Bob Jones University. He earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied classical composition with Giampaolo Bracali, organ with Alec Wyton, and conducting with Maestro Bracali, Amy Kaiser, and David Gilbert. He pursued additional private organ study with W. Lindsay Smith and Charles Callahan, and he has participated in numerous masterclassses and workshops with such noteworthy clinicians as Daniel Roth, Ann Howard Jones, Robert Page, Richard Danielpour, Maury Yeston, and Bob Chilcott. He has served on the Board of the Westchester County, New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is past Executive Director of BJUnity, the organization for LGBTQIA+ students and alumni of Bob Jones University.

Mr. Hoffman especially enjoys working as a collaborative pianist and organist with singers and instrumentalists, and is grateful for the warm welcome to Jackson he has experienced from Saint Luke’s parisihioners and friends and from the Tuesday Supper Club.