Choral Evensongs
2026 - 2027
Great Music Series
Our 2026-2027 Great Music Series music brochure is available! This brochure has a complete listing of all choral services, concerts and more information about the music program at Christ Church Cathedral. You may pick up a physical copy at the Cathedral at any time, or Click here to view it online.
Evensong Concerts
3:30pm
Our Evensong concerts are performed by local and national artists. The concerts are 30-minutes long and precede our sung Choral Evensong service at 4pm.
For a full list of this year's performers, Click Here.
Choral Evensongs
4:00pm
Choral Evensongs offer a beguiling invitation. Patterned on the ancient service of evening prayer, it marks the setting of the sun and the coming of darkness from which a new day will dawn. Therefore, at the close of day, we pause to give thanks for what has been. The Cathedral Choir lifts our prayers to God through rich and expansive choral settings. We join our voices with the prayers of countless generations to the glory of God. We invite you to be a part of this timeless and beautiful service.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
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Brass Concert, 3:30pm
Faculty Brass Quintet
University of Kentucky
Evensong, 4pm
The Cathedral Choir
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This Concert and Evensong is a preview of the In One A-Chord: Lexington Sacred Music Festival.
Concert Artist Biographies
Jason Dovel is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught since 2013. He is also President of the International Trumpet Guild. He has been a soloist and clinician at more than 100 universities and festivals around the world. Since 2021, he has been a visiting artist fellow at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, where he is frequently a soloist and guest conductor with the Mantzaros Philharmonic. He has recorded four highly acclaimed solo CDs. The American Record Guide described Jason Dovel's trumpet playing as "spectacular" and praised his "full tone and terrific technical skills." Of his debut CD, the International Trumpet Guild Journal reviewer wrote, "On every track, Dovel's nuanced, stylistic interpretations and technical mastery are on full display." As an orchestral trumpeter, he has performed with many groups including the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, and Amici New York Orchestra. Locally, he serves as principal trumpet of the Lexington Chamber Orchestra, Lexington Theatre Orchestra, and the Kentucky Bach Choir. On the valveless Baroque trumpet, he regularly appears with many of the country's leading period instrument groups, including the Washington Bach Consort, Mountainside Baroque, Bourbon Baroque, Virginia Baroque, The Thirteen, and others. He performed with the Washington Bach Consort on their recent CD, Mythologies Past and Present.
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Abby Temple serves on faculty and staff for the University of Kentucky School of Music as a Part-Time Instructor of Trumpet and as an Administrative Support Associate. As an adjunct trumpet professor, she assists Dr. Jason Dovel in teaching the trumpet studio and helps coordinate the UK Summer Trumpet Institute. Along with her work at UK, Abby is a co-founder of Chroma Collective, a chamber ensemble and 501(c)3 organization that combines music and visual art in interactive performances. She is also on the board of Outside the Spotlight, a local non-profit that brings independent and improvised music to Lexington.
Scott Schiffer Leger is a performer, teacher, and content creator currently teaching as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky and performing in the Louisville Orchestra as Associate Principal/Third Horn. Prior to joining the Louisville Orchestra, Scott performed four seasons as a horn fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, and held the position of Principal Horn of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, NY. In addition, he has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, The Florida Orchestra, and Omaha and South Dakota symphonies as a substitute musician, and has received fellowships to spend his summers at a variety of music festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center, National Repertory Orchestra, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and National Orchestral Institute. As a soloist, Scott has performed concerti with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and New World Symphony, and in the 2024-25 season, premiered a new concerto for horn and orchestra by Baldwin Giang with the Louisville Orchestra and music director Teddy Abrams. Scott regularly travels as a guest artist and has presented recitals in Puerto Rico, at the University of Oklahoma, University of Central Arkansas, and at workshops around the United States. Scott maintains an online presence as an artist and educator producing content for his YouTube channel, Instagram and TikTok pages. Under the username @scottlegerhorn, he serves an audience of over 150,000 accounts, and has created over 1,000 videos, garnering tens of millions of views. As a producer, Scott presented over 20 concerts for the New World Symphony’s popular "Live from our Living Room" series, and also produced "Spectral Sounds," a concert series exploring the origins of spectral music, where he also was featured as a soloist in Tristan Murail's rarely performed work memoire/erosion for solo horn and nine instruments. He enjoys using the internet to build classical music audiences and hopes to build a platform to inspire horn-players and musicians of all ages to enjoy their craft. Scott completed his master’s degree at the Yale School of Music under the direction of William Purvis in 2018. He received his bachelor of music degrees in music education with certification and music performance at Southern Methodist University, with minors in music theory and mathematics, in the studio of Gregory Hustis.
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Bradley Kerns joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2011. As a soloist, Brad has appeared with ensembles such as the Amazonas Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Petersburg (Russia) Chamber Orchestra, the Russian National Pipe Band, the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own", the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Wind Band, as well as ensemble appearances with organizations such as the Louisville Orchestra, the Lexington Philharmonic, the World Famous Glen Miller Orchestra, the Russian National Military Band, the Temptations, the Cincinnati Ballet, the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Cincinnati Pops. Brad has performed and taught across the globe at events such as the Moscow Brass Days, the Brass in Autumn Festival in St. Petersburg-Russia, the DIA T Festival in Recife-Brazil, the Great American Brass Band Festival, the International Trombone Festival, the American Trombone Workshop, the Inner Mongolia Art College, the International Women's Brass Conference, the Jazz Education Network Conference, the Projecto Bone Festival in Sao Paulo-Brazil, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Ionian University Residency, the Taller de Trombone Festival in Panama, as well as multiple Brazilian Trombone Association and State Music Educators Conferences. Brad has been involved in nearly forty recording projects under multiple recording labels and has performed for programs such as the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), National Geographic, the BBC England, PBS, and WRFL Lexington. He is an Edwards Instruments and Pickett Brass Performing Artist.
Brandon Smith is proud to be joining the University of Kentucky faculty as Assistant Professor of tuba and euphonium. Prior to this position, Smith led the tuba and euphonium studio at Valdosta State University, where he taught applied lessons, studio class, brass methods, and music appreciation. Smith has given masterclasses at several universities, including Kennesaw State University, Florida A&M University, Mississippi State University, University of Tennessee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Reinhardt University. Smith’s students have performed at the Army Band Tuba and Euphonium Conference, as well as the South East Regional Tuba and Euphonium conference. Students from Smith’s studio include winners and finalists of multiple competitions, including the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference solo artist competition, the Leonard Falcone solo artist competition, and the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition. Smith is a versatile musician who has performed extensively as an orchestral, chamber, and solo artist. As a soloist, he has performed solo recitals at the Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Tuba and Euphonium Workshop, the Southeastern Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference, Kennesaw State University, Stetson University, and Reinhardt University. Smith was awarded the Bronze Medal in the 2020 Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Artist Tuba Competition, and has also been a finalist for the Army Band “Pershing’s Own” 2020 Tuba and Euphonium Conference solo competition. As an orchestral musician, Smith has served as principal tubist for the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. He has also played with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Arlington Philharmonic, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra, the Tyson’s McLean Orchestra, and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded first prize in the 2019 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference’s Arnold Jacobs Mock Orchestra Competition, and has been a finalist for tuba positions with the Florida Orchestra, Austin Symphony Orchestra, the United States Air Force Academy Band, and the United States Navy Band. Smith holds a Doctorate in Music Performance from Florida State University, a Master’s in Music Performance from the University of Tennessee, and a Bachelor’s in Music Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory. His primary teachers include Dr. Justin Benavidez, Dr. Alexander Lapins, and Michael Bunn, respectively
An award-winning harpist, Rachel Renee Miller is celebrated for her dynamic qualities as a soloist, active orchestral musician, and enthusiastic collaborator and educator. She is Principal Harpist of Kalamazoo Symphony, and was Interim Principal Harp for Louisville Orchestra’s 2022/2023 Season. Rachel is engaged regularly by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Nashville Opera. Rachel has been a prize winner at the Lyon & Healy Awards, American Harp Society’s National Competition Advanced Division, and American Harp Society’s Anne Adams Awards. Rachel has shared the stage with a variety of artists including Andrea Bocelli, The Beach Boys, Evanescence, Josh Groban, Lindsey Stirling, Sarah McLachlan, Amy Grant, Celtic Woman, Christopher Cross, and Music City Hit-Makers (Nashville’s chart-topping songwriters). Rachel enjoys working in Nashville as a recording musician, and can be heard playing on many scores for Film, TV & video-games, and on projects for artists including Joss Stone, Jelly Roll and Greta Van Fleet. An energetic educator, Rachel enjoys sharing the harp with her students in her private teaching studio, welcoming students of all ages, levels and backgrounds. Rachel will join the faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music as Adjunct Artist Teacher of Harp beginning Fall 2024. Rachel holds degrees from Michigan State University (BM 2012) and University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (MM 2014; AD 2018).
Composer, church musician, conductor and organist -- Richard Webster is currently Lecturer in the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) at Yale University. He retired in 2022 as Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston after 17 years. During 2023-24 he served as Interim Director of Music at St. Paul's Choir School, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a composer and arranger he completes several commissioned works a year. His hymn arrangements for brass, percussion, organ and congregation are heard across the world, including the CBC's Christmas and Easter broadcasts, BBC's "Songs of Praise,” at a hymn festival in Sweden’s Lund Cathedral, in an Australian celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and on a recording of hymns from Taiwan. At Trinity, Boston, where he cofounded the Trinity Choristers, he led the choirs on five tours of England, with residencies at York Minster; Westminster Abbey; Durham, Ely, Lincoln, Chichester, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester and St. Paul’s Cathedrals. During his tenure, Trinity's 1926 Skinner nave organ was successfully renovated and a new 4-manual Skinner replica console added. Richard is Music Director of Chicago's "Bach in the City," a new endeavor at St. Vincent DePaul Church, and the successor to Bach Week Festival that he had directed for 50 years, based in Evanston. Sought after as a choral clinician, he has led choir courses and workshops across the U.S., South Africa and New Zealand. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (FRSCM), and holds the Doctor of Music degree, honoris causa, from the University of the South at Sewanee. Webster has performed and recorded as organist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works from the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony to Ives' Fourth Symphony. He is the Organist and Choirmaster Emeritus of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, Illinois, where, from 1974 to 2003 he directed the Choir of Men and Boys, the Girls Choir, Schola and the St. Luke’s Singers in a program widely respected and emulated. The restoration of the celebrated 1922 Ernest M. Skinner organ, Opus 327 at St. Luke’s was accomplished under his leadership. A native of Nashville, Mr. Webster studied organ with the late Peter Fyfe, Karel Paukert and Wolfgang Rübsam. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Great Britain, as Organ Scholar at Chichester Cathedral under the late John Birch. Webster's works are published by Augsburg Fortress, Church Music Society, Church Publishing, Selah and Advent Press. His articles on church music have appeared in The American Organist, The Diapason, Chicago Tribune, The Living Church, Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Choral Journal of the ACDA and the Windy City Times. He was a contributing author to Leading the Church’s Song, published by Augsburg. A passionate runner, Richard has completed 47 marathons, including 21 Boston Marathons.
Miyo Aoki is a recorder player currently living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is active as a performer and teacher, and her unique curriculum, Recorder from the Ground Up, was recently published by Seattle Historical Arts for Kids. Miyo is a member of the Farallon Recorder Quartet and has performed in the US, Germany, and Poland, with groups including The Eurasia Consort, Utopia Early Music, Forgotten Clefs, and Gamut Bach Ensemble; and at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Berkeley Early Music Festival and Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has premiered works by contemporary composers Natalie Williams and Agnes Dorwarth and has played with the Boise Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Eugene Symphony, respectively, in performances of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In addition to maintaining a private teaching studio, Miyo teaches recorder at an elementary school and at workshops around the United States. Miyo holds a KAZ Diplom (Artist Diploma) from the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany, where she studied with Professor Han Tol, and degrees in both early music performance and mathematics from Indiana University, where she studied with Professor Eva Legêne.
William Allen is a guitarist from Lexington, Kentucky. He is currently a student of Dr. Dieter Hennings at the University of Kentucky, where he will receive degrees in Music Education and Music Performance for the classical guitar. He has travelled internationally to perform and partake in guitar festivals in Koblenz (GER), Isserlohn (GER), and Carrion de los Condes (ESP). He aspires to receive an advanced degree in music so he can teach collegiately.
Vincent Buchenberger is a saxophonist from Georgetown, KY. He loves to play in jazz bands as well as more pop and rock focused groups. In his jazz playing, he pulls inspiration from a variety of musical greats like Cannonball Adderley, Joni Mitchell, and Miles Davis. In addition to performing music, Vincent is studying psychology at the University of Kentucky. He aspires to be a clinical psychologist.
Sam Dailey is a pianist and composer from Lexington, KY. He is an Arts Administration student at the University of Kentucky and has experience with saxophone and singing. Sam was a member of the CCC Boys Choir when he was in elementary and middle school. He has performed in ensembles in Europe, and attended the 2025 Screen Music Program in Pavia, Italy to study film scoring. He hopes to pursue a career in either arts or environmental nonprofits.
Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Adam Inouye is a percussionist, educator, and composer who explores many different avenues of music. As a drummer, he plays with Lexington-based fusion/funk group Tiramisu, indie-prog band Liability Luke, the jazz collective known as the JJ Band, and is a freelance performer/jazz in central Kentucky. Adam currently holds the drum set chair for the UK Jazz Ensemble.
Born in Dalian, China, Mengfei Xu currently serving as Assistant Director of Worship & Music at Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work centers on organ literature, sacred music, and historically informed performance. She previously served as Organ Scholar at the University Chapel at Yale and has collaborated extensively with choirs and singers in liturgical and concert settings throughout the United States. Her primary teachers included James O'Donnell, Carole Terry, Craig Cramer, André Lash, and Jean Radice. She has also worked in masterclasses and coaching sessions with Kimberly Marshall, Hans Davidson, Jean-Baptiste Robin, and Shin-Young Lee. Xu maintains a particular interest in historical keyboard traditions and the music of female and lesser-known composers. She has presented recitals in the United States, France, and Sweden, performing on a variety of historic and historically inspired instruments, including the Taylor & Boody Op. 55 organ at Marquand Chapel in New Haven, modeled after the 1682 Arp Schnitger organ at St. Jacobi in Lüdingworth, Germany; the 1787 François-Henri Clicquot organ at Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Poitiers, France; the North German Baroque organ at Örgryte New Church in Gothenburg, Sweden; the 1806 Schiörlin organ in Gammalkils kyrka, Sweden; and the 1894 Farrand & Votey organ at the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours in Louisville, Kentucky. As a collaborative artist, she has worked with ensembles including Yale Camerata, Louisville Chamber Choir, and the Bennett College Women’s Choir. Her scholarly and artistic work has been recognized through numerous awards and scholarships, including the Richard VanSciver Church Music Scholarship from Metropolitan Music Ministries, the Montréal Organ Festival Young Organist Scholarship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the AGO National Convention Young Organist Scholarship, the Charles Ives Prize for Outstanding Organ Student from the Yale School of Music, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music Director’s Prize for outstanding colloquium presentation.
Mexican guitarist Dr. Daniel Monroy Reyes, originally from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and a Master of Music from the University of Kentucky, where he studied under Dr. Dieter Hennings. His foundational training was at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ) with Professors Domingo Rodríguez and Dr. Ricardo Saeb. He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Music from the Facultad de Música (School of Music) of the Universidad Veracruzana, studying with Consuelo Bolio and Alfredo Sánchez, and graduating under the supervision of Mtro. Enrique Salmerón. As a soloist, Dr. Monroy Reyes has performed many of the guitar repertoire’s most significant works. In February 2026, he appeared as a guest soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa (OSX), performing Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra. In November 2023, he performed Joaquín Rodrig's Concierto de Aranjuez with the UACJ Youth Symphony Orchestra. He previously played Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz for four guitars with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Sonora in 2021 and with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra in 2019. With the Orquesta de Guitarras de Xalapa, he performed Manuel M. Ponce’s Concierto del Sur and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Concerto No. 1 in D Major in 2016. Internationally, he participated in The UofL Guitar Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2025, and in 2022, he performed at the 30th International Gitarren Festival in Iserlohn, Germany. As a founding member and guitarist for the UK New Music Ensemble, he performed 20th- and 21st-century music in a variety of chamber and contemporary settings. In this role, he participated in the US premiere of Nebulario by Graciela Agudelo, the Kentucky premiere of Hebert Vázque's Pedacería Fantástica for solo guitar and ensemble, and the world premiere of Títeres al Baile by Juan Trigos. Additionally, he is a founding member of the binational ensemble Border Bones (Mexico-USA), with which he premieres world-commissioned works. His appearances with the ensemble include the Big 12 Trombone Festival Conference at Texas Tech University in January 2026, as well as a performance at the 2023 International Trombone Festival at the University of Utah. In 2024, the ensemble released its debut album, Between Borders. Throughout his career, he has been awarded second place in the Concurso Nacional Virtual GuitaREDUV 2020 and The Lewis Award in 2011. He also received an honorable mention in the II Concurso de Guitarra Clásica Aquiles Valdés. His early relationship with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa includes being selected to perform Villa-Lobos's Concerto at its Young Soloists Auditions in 2017. As an educator, Dr. Monroy Reyes has taught in the Bachelor of Music program at UACJ and in various music initiation programs and academies in Ciudad Juárez and Xalapa. In 2024, he joined the faculty of the Central Music Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. To advance his technical expertise, he has participated in masterclasses with internationally recognized artists such as Eliot Fisk, Sharon Isbin, William Kanengiser, Pablo Garibay, Jorge Caballero, and Marcin Dylla. Currently, Dr. Monroy Reyes performs on a guitar crafted by renowned Mexican luthier David Arnoldo Rubio. His comprehensive education, notable performance achievements, and commitment to both traditional and contemporary repertoire have established him as a significant contributor to the classical guitar and contemporary chamber music communities in Mexico and internationally.