DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AND PIANIST

Jeff Hamrick
(see Staff - Administration for biography)

Music at Countryside Church
Music plays an important role and regularly enhances worship services with openings or introits for the service and anthems. A professional pianist not only accompanies hymn singing but provides for transitional periods of reflection.

Choir members recently reflected on what music has meant to them as part of a worship service on music led by Jeff Hamrick and choir member, J. Weprin. Click on names below to access word documents:

J. Weprin
S. Bero
J. Kamowski
E. Scott
A. Richards

Countryside Church Choir
The choir serves its primary purpose of enhancing worship by performing in the regular Sunday worship services of the church, in special services such as Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving, Memorial, etc., and in other commemorative and special calendar events as they occur

Additionally, the choir has performed major works with guest soloists in concert with piano, chamber ensemble and/or orchestral accompaniment. In past seasons the following are a few examples of the concert repertoire that have been performed: The Peaceable Kingdom (Randall Thompson); Messiah (G.F. Handel); Gloria (A. Vivaldi); Requiem (G. Faure); various concert masses and cantatas by Mozart, Schubert and Bach; Liebeslieder Waltzes, (J. Brahms); In Praise of Music, (P. Hindemith); and shorter works by Aaron Copland, Kirke Mechem, Lloyd Pfautsch, Claude Debussy and Leonard Bernstein.

Rehearsals are most Thursdays from 7:15PM to 9:15 PM and Sundays at 9:30 A.M. prior to worship service at 10:30 AM.