summer choir of st peter's
Harold Stover
Harold Stover is our Music Director and Choirmaster.
He is a native of Latrobe, Pa and is a graduate of the Julliard School in New York City. Although retired from full time church music career, he presently directs the chorus Renaissance Voices in Portland and serves on the faculty of the Portland Conservatory of Music.
SUMMER SOLOISTS AT ST PETER'S
Jennifer Bates
Jennifer has a wide list of accomplishments. Among these are soloist in weely Bach Vespers , Holy Trinity Lutheran, NYC, and Bristol Music Festival (UK). SUNY, Stony Brook DMA candidate current, Aspen Fellowship Recipient, Ravinia Festival, Steans Scholar, Boston Conservatory BM. and Manhatten School of Music MM
Andrea Graichen
Andrea is a lifelong member of Choral Art and the St. Mary's Schola in Portland. She has appeared with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She sang the role of Mother Jeanne in the PSO's presentation of Poulenc's opera, Dialogues of the Carmelites. She has also sung a wide variety of roles in Mozart's Parto, Ma Tu Ben Mio, Shubert's Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen and Handel's Messiah
SOLOISTS AT ST. PETER'S in June
Bruce Canterbury
Bruce Canterbury
Bruce Canterbury
Bruce graduated from Westminister Choir College in Princetone, NJ, as a Music Education major with a principle in voice. He taught elementary school music at St. Patrick's Catholic School in Portland. He joined St. Mary's Schola in 2012.
Jessica Cooper
Bruce Canterbury
Bruce Canterbury
Jessica has been hailed by the Boston Globe as a "welcome addition to Boston's top rank of Handel sopranos." She has appeared with the Boston Cecilia, Handel & Haydn Society, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Portland Symphony Orchestra to name a few! Her creative independent projects include the co-founding of the Henry Purcell Society of Boston in the music of English Baroque.
John David Adams
Bruce Canterbury
John David Adams
Powerful and insightful bass soloist. He enjoys cantatas and oratorios of Bach and Handel. He studied voice and opera at the Hartt School of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Bach Choir to name a few. He is a member of St. Mary Sch
Powerful and insightful bass soloist. He enjoys cantatas and oratorios of Bach and Handel. He studied voice and opera at the Hartt School of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Bach Choir to name a few. He is a member of St. Mary Schola since 2012 and founding member in both Aureole Chamber Ensemble and Vox Nova Chamber in Maine.
Jenna Guiggey
Jenna Guiggey
John David Adams
Mezzo-soprano voice and is based from Portland. She studied classical voice at USM. She performs locally with Oratorio Chorale, St. Mary Schola, and local theater productions. Jenna also directs choirs at Greely Middle School.
Rachel Keller
Jenna Guiggey
Rachel Keller
Rachel is a soprano and raised in a musical family in Yorkshre, England. Undergraduate music major in York in the UK. Shifted her focus on music therapy. Joined her husband in Philadelphia where she explored Music Therapy. Moved to Maine 2002 and besides raising a family Rachel is a member of Renaissance Voices and Choral Arts Society. She is in St. Mary Schola since 2012.
Ray Cornils
Jenna Guiggey
Rachel Keller
He was the City of Portland, Maine's 10th municipal organist from 1990 until 2007. He concertizes throughout the U.S. He has performed at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, the National Cathedral(Episcopal) in DC, and on the Wanamaker Organ at Macys in Philadelphia. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions
He was the City of Portland, Maine's 10th municipal organist from 1990 until 2007. He concertizes throughout the U.S. He has performed at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, the National Cathedral(Episcopal) in DC, and on the Wanamaker Organ at Macys in Philadelphia. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.