Music
The Music Ministry’s mission is to worship, praise and serve God through music. New members are welcome to join the following groups:
- St. James Choir sings on Sundays at the 11:15 service, at Evensong several times a year and on high holy days.
- Allelu! is an adult ensemble that sings folk style contemporary praise music on 2nd and 4th Sundays at 9:00.
- Canterbury Handbells is an adult bell choir which plays for various services.
Fall Music at St. James
Sun, Sept 26 at 5:00 pm (Pentecost XVIII)
Choral Evensong and Organ Recital
Christopher Jacobson, Associate Organist & Choirmaster, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral; Columbia, SC
No tickets required; an offering will be received.
Sun, Oct 10 at 5:00 pm (Pentecost XX)
Sung Evening Prayer with Allelu!
Lisa Whitfield, Director
No tickets required; an offering will be received.
Fri, Oct 15 - 7:30 pm & Sat, Oct 16 - 3:00 pm
Carolina Concert Choir Fall Concert
Bradford Gee, Conductor
Music by Schumann, Ives, Handel, Mendelssohn, and Rutter.
Tickets $15 (students $5) - available at Visitor Center, Laurel Park Wine Merchant,
Hand-in-Hand Gallery, St. James Church reception desk, and at the door.
Visit the Carolina Concert Choir website here.
Sun, Oct 31
9:00 am - Celebration of All Saints’ Day with Allelu!
11:15 am - Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
John Rutter Requiem with St. James Choir and Chamber Orchestra including a reading of the necrology with names submitted of those who have died in the past year.
Sun, Nov. 28 at 5:00 pm (Advent I)
Advent Lessons & Carols with St. James Choir & Montreat Scottish Pipes and Drums
Music by Warlock, Vaughan Williams, Archer, Rutter, and Manz.
No tickets required; an offering will be received
Fri, Dec 17 at 7:30 pm & Sat, Dec 18 at 3:00 pm
Carolina Concert Choir Holiday Concert
Bradford Gee, Conductor
Seven Joys of Christmas by Kirke Mechem with Lelia Lattimore, harpist.
Music by Billings, Howells, Whitacre, and selections from The Alfred Burt Carols.
Tickets $15 (students $5) - available at Visitor Center, Laurel Park Wine Merchant,
Hand-in-Hand Gallery, St. James Church reception desk, and at the door.
Visit the Carolina Concert Choir website here.
Fri, Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve)
4:30 pm - Family Service with children’s pageant, organ, solos, and Allelu! (no incense)
10:30 pm - Solemn Choral Eucharist with St James Choir and string ensemble (incense)
Before the Marvel of This Night, Schalk;
What Sweeter Music and Carol of the Magi, Rutter.
Brad Gee is Director of Music and Organist at St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At St. James he conducts the Parish Choir, plays the Harrison & Harrison organ for services, and oversees a multi-faceted music program which includes services of Choral Evensong followed by organ recitals. He also conducts the Carolina Concert Choir, a forty-voice auditioned community chorus that has sung to sold-out audiences throughout the Carolinas and at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.
Prior to this position, he was Organist/Choirmaster at St. Richard’s Episcopal Church in Winter Park, Florida for seven years. He has played organ and harpsichord in Winter Park Bach Festival Performances and served as guest clinician for the Orlando Liturgical Conference and Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida workshops.
An Association of Anglican Musicians member since 1996, Mr. Gee has served twice as the Region IV Chair, and was co-chair of the Palm Beach national conference in 2000. He has served as housemaster at the Royal School of Church Music King’s College Course in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Charlotte, North Carolina, and is past dean of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He is also an organ recitalist in area churches.
Mr. Gee pursued doctoral studies in choral conducting and organ performance at Indiana University where he was a student of Robert Porco and Marilyn Keiser. His master’s degree is from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he studied conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt. He is a member of Chorus America and the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, and most recently was awarded the National Religious Music Week Alliance Award of Distinction “for developing and maintaining one of the nation’s finest music programs.”
St. James Choir
Allelu!
Lisa Whitfield, Director of Allelu!
828-693-7458 | info@stjamesepiscopal.com