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Director of Music/Organist, Hungars Cure Parish
More information available here.
Organist/Choir Director, Williamsburg Baptist Church
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Organist/Pianist,
Full information available here.
Music Director, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Norfolk
Full-time position. Full information available here.
Organist/Choirmaster Position, St. John’s Church Portsmouth
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Music Director, Kingston Episcopal Parish, Mathews, Virginia
Status: Part-time Salary: minimum $22,000 and vacation
Job Summary: Provide organ and piano accompaniment and special music for all Sunday liturgical worship, Lenten and festival services. Select music and conduct weekly choir rehearsals.
Essential Functions:
- Provide organ/piano music for Sunday liturgical services (8:00 AM at Christ Church and 10:30 AM at Kingston Chapel — weekly attendance averaged 30+ at each service), and for other non-Sunday festival services: Christmas Eve, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, etc.
- Serve as Adult Choir director and accompanist at all Adult Choir functions and rehearsals.
- Choose appropriate organ/piano music for anthems, preludes and postludes in cooperation with the Rector.
- Have first option to play for all weddings and funerals held at the church.
- Maintain professional competency by lessons, practicing, performing, attending music conferences and reading professional journals.
- Oversee maintenance of the organs.
Minimum Qualifications:
Proficiency and requisite training in organ and piano at an appropriate level for our music program; experience in leading congregational singing; experience in choir and solo accompaniment; familiarity with hymns and repertoire for the church year, weddings and funerals. Applicants should be able to engage people positively; openly accept criticism as well as praise; productively engage and resolve interpersonal conflict. Applicant should be a self-starter who wants to continue a good music program and explore all that is possible to grow the program.
Experience: Organ/keyboard playing: 4 years (Preferred)
Education: Bachelor’s (Preferred)
Kingston Parish (Episcopal) was founded ca. 1652. Mathews is 14 miles from Gloucester Court House and a good hour from Richmond, Williamsburg, or Newport News. At 8 AM, Rite 1 Eucharist at Christ Church (built 1700s, rebuilt 1902, has a two-manual 20-rank Zimmer Co. op. 495 hybrid organ with Walker Technical Company digital voices) and at 10:30 AM, Rite II Eucharist at the Kingston Chapel (Rodgers 805 two-manual 36-rank digital organ with an antiphonal gallery with two ranks of pipes and digital voices and Steinway baby grand piano. The choir practices have been Wednesdays from 3 PM to 5 PM at Christ Church and the choir sang alternately at one service each week.
Resumes and inquiries can be sent by email to the rector at barkergaryj@gmail.com or by snail mail to Musician Search, Kingston Parish, P.O. Box 471, Mathews, Virginia 23109