Choral Evensongs
2025 - 2026
Great Music Series
Our 2025-2026 Great Music Series music brochure is out now! 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 21, 2025
Concert, 3:30pm
Schuyler Robinson
University of Kentucky
Evensong, 4pm
The Cathedral Choir
This Concert and Evensong is part of the In One A-Chord: Lexington Sacred Music Festival.
Concert Artist Biographies
Schuyler Robinson, D.M.A, is the Professor of Organ Emeritus at the University of Kentucky (1982-2016). His tenure included teaching organ, harpsichord, music theory, and Collegium Musicum. Concurrently he served as Assistant Organist at Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral for 20 years under five different choir masters. As resident organist during the choirs’ six England residencies, he played in a dozen cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s and Canterbury Cathedrals. His collaboration with the DiMartino-Robinson Trumpet-Organ Duo included tours in 22 states in the US and Australia/Tasmania. Solo organ recitals were presented in five countries in Europe and throughout the US. He continues to perform, teach, assist in diocesan churches, and travel. His solo organ CD, A Kentucky Organ Tour: Nine Historic and Modern Organs of the Bluegrass is available from our Cathedral Bookstore or on RavenCD.com.
Dr. Scott Wright currently holds the position of Professor of Music (clarinet) at the University of Kentucky. Prior to his appointment at UK in 2002, he served as the clarinet professor, the Director of Instrumental Music Education, and Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (1997-2002). Additionally, he began his professional career teaching K-12 music for the public schools of Longview, Washington from 1987-97. Dr. Wright received music education degrees from the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, and he received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from Arizona State University. Former teachers include Robert Spring, James Pyne, John Mohler, Stan Stanford, and Evelyn Angerman. He has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor throughout the United States, Europe, and China. Along with colleagues from the University of Kentucky (Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni—oboe and Dr. Allison Nicotera—bassoon), Wright currently performs with the Maribo Trio. Their concerts, recitals, and educational presentations have been roundly praised as innovative, virtuosic, wildly entertaining, and dog-friendly! With an extensive background in K-12 education (spanning nearly 40 years), Wright focuses tremendous energy and passion in the area of music education, and he has recorded educational music for international music publishing companies Excelcia, Carl Fischer, Wingert-Jones, and Southern Music since 2003. Wright also serves as Director of Bands and Clarinet Instructor at the Young Musicians and Artists (YMA) Summer Arts Camp in Salem, OR—a position he has held since 1989. Wright has been married to his wife Eileen since 1987, and they have three grown sons—Stephen, Garrison, and Calvin.
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).
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 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. A passionate runner, Richard has completed 47 marathons, including 21 Boston Marathons.
Joseph Parr is entering his second year as a M.M. student in Organ and Sacred Music, studying under Dr. Janette Fishell. He currently serves as the Organist at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, KY and as the Graduate Assistant for the IU Organ Department. Joseph holds a B.M. in Organ Performance from Stetson University, where he studied with Dr. Boyd Jones. During his time at Stetson, Joseph took on several leadership roles, including serving on the School of Music Student Advisory Council and working as a Program Lead for the Peer Advisory Council for Title IX. He also served as the Music Director of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Eustis, FL. In addition to his organ studies, Joseph also studied conducting, piano, viola, and harpsichord at Stetson. He performed numerous times in the orchestras at Stetson playing viola, harpsichord, and organ. He was also a guest conductor with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Aaron Collins. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Pastoral Musicians. Outside of music, Joseph enjoys reading about American history and politics and spending his free time playing tennis and golf.
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Jana Flygstad is a freelance flutist, piccoloist, educator, and recording artist in the Central Kentucky area. Mrs. Flygstad is in demand as a flute and piano teacher in Lawrenceburg. She enjoys directing high school flute ensembles and commissioning new music. She is in her ninth year of teaching General Music and Praise Band at the Christian Academy in Lawrenceburg. Mrs. Flygstad has been a prize winner in both the Flute Society of Kentucky’s Young Artist and Piccolo Competitions. In 2007, she was a finalist in the Chicago Young Artist Competition. She taught Applied Flute for six years at Centre College and directed the Centre Flutes Ensemble, who was selected to perform at the KMEA Convention. Mrs. Flygstad earned a Master’s in Flute Performance from Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala. She was also a student of Gordon Cole at the University of Kentucky, where she earned her BMME.
Lisa has served Christ Church Cathedral since February 2012. In 2013, Lisa recorded an album, Sing We Merrily, with the Cathedral Choir. During the Visiting Conductor Series at the Cathedral, Lisa has worked with American conductors, Richard Webster, Robert Ludwig, Robert Quade, Walden Moore, and Robert McCormick, as well as British conductors, Aric Prentice, Malcolm Archer and Sarah Baldock. She has had the privilege of being the organist for choral residencies in England at Gloucester Cathedral, York Minster Cathedral, St. George’s Chapel Windsor, Bristol Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, and Chester Cathedral. Lisa has also performed an organ concert in Rome, Italy at St. Paul’s Within the Walls. She has served on Lexington’s American Guild of Organists’ Executive Committee. Lisa holds a Master of Music in organ performance from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts in organ and church music from Asbury University.
Grant Holcomb serves as the full-time Director of Traditional Music and Organist at River Road Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA, where he serves as principal organist, and directs and oversees voice and handbell choirs for adults, youth, and children. A Lexington, KY native, Grant holds the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degrees in Organ Performance from the University of Kentucky, where he was an organ and harpsichord student of Dr. Schuyler Robinson. Grant has served the American Guild of Organists in local, regional, and national capacities, and has been featured as a performer, presenter, and pedagogue at AGO Pipe Organ Encounters for high school youth. Recent recital engagements include: Long Beach, CA; Colonial Williamsburg, VA; and National City Christian Church and Franciscan Monastery — both in Washington, D.C. In addition to Dr. Robinson, Grant has studied organ with Lisa Hall, Michael Rintamaa, and Eric Wall.