The Pennsylvania Northeast AGO Chapter is sponsoring a Clergy & Musician Relations Workshop at St. Stephen’s Church, Pro-Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, 35 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 9:30 am. Continental breakfast will be available at 9:00 am and the workshop will conclude with Noonday Prayer.
The featured presenter will be the Rev. Dr. Victoria Sirota, an Episcopal priest, lecturer, organist, and author of Preaching to the Choir: Claiming the Role of Sacred Musician. The Rev. Dr. Sirota holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Boston University, and Harvard Divinity School, and has taught at Yale Divinity School, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University, and Boston University. She is currently Priest-in-Charge at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Yonkers, New York.
The workshop is free and open to the public. Organists, choir directors, church musicians, Parish Council, Consistory, and Vestry members, and clergy of all denominations are welcome and encouraged to attend. To register, please call 570-301-9253 or email dean@agopane.org before February 27.