Choral Evensongs
2024 - 2025
Great Music Series
Our 2024-2025 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.
Concert Artist Biographies
Formed in 2022, Chimera Quartet consists of Jakob Giles, Max Greenwald, Joey Piellucci, and Ascher Taylor-Schroeder. All members served as graduate teaching assistants for the guitar program at the University of Louisville under Dr. Stephen Mattingly. They also all hold teaching positions in the greater Louisville area, including at the Youth Performing Arts School, serve on the board of the Louisville Guitar Society, and own three pets; Dahlia, Ella, and Elvis. Chimera Quartet is interested in performing a wide variety of repertoire, especially new music. The group collaborated with composer Isaac R. Smith to workshop and premiere his piece Same or Different in 2023. They are currently focusing on works by living composers and seeking new collaborations.
The University of Kentucky Brass Ensemble is led by Dr. Jason Dovel. Jason is Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky. He recently served as Visiting Professor at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, and has appeared at more than 90 universities and festivals worldwide, most recently Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (Austria), Royal Northern College of Music (England), Conservatoire de Lyon (France), Uni Sant' Anna (Brazil), Royal Irish Academy of Music (Ireland), and the Queensland Conservatorium (Australia). He has recorded four solo CDs, authored 20 journal articles, and published more than 20 original compositions. He is a founding member of Quintasonic Brass and Sonitus Clarissima. His orchestral experience includes the Louisville Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, Arkansas Philharmonic, and many other groups.
Madison Jones grew up in Lexington, Ky, where she started violin studies at age five. She received her BM and MM in violin performance from the University of Kentucky in '21 and '23. While in school, she won the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and served as one of UKSO's concertmasters. Over the summers, she participated in music festivals such as Brevard Institute, Meadowmount, Garth Newel Emerging Artist Program, and Orvieto Musica. Madison maintained a studio of private violin students in Lexington for four years, and now teaches in Louisville. She is a current member of the Lexington Philharmonic.
Rebecca Kiekenapp is a freelance performer and private instructor in the Lexington area. She performs as a cellist and teaching artist for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, principal cellist of the Lexington Chamber Orchestra, and is a violinist with the London Community Orchestra. Ms. Kiekenapp earned a B.M. in cello performance summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota and a M.M. from the University of Kentucky. Her violin is a copy of the “Heifetz, David,” 1742 Guarneri Del Gesú, the last violin made by the late Timothy Jansma of Fremont, MI.
Dale Jones graduated in 1987 from the University of Louisville with a Bachelors Degree in Music (viola performance), studying with Virginia Schneider and Michel Samson. He also studied abroad at Samson’s studio in Amsterdam. Dale began his viola studio in the Lexington area in 2002, and is a co-director of Lexington’s Original Viola Ensemble. He has performed with ensembles such as the West Virginia Symphony, Kentucky Bach Society, and Lexington Chamber Orchestra.
Clyde Beavers is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student under the tutelage of the world-renowned cellist Harvey Shapiro. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky. Clyde Beavers is an Adjunct Professor of violoncello at Asbury University and Transylvania University and also serves as Assistant Principal cellist in the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra’s educational outreach program, he has served as a teaching artist, giving performances and presentations to school-aged children in Central Kentucky. Beavers has recorded for the Naxos label and performs on a cello that was recently crafted by Timothy J. Jansma.
Hayden Ives-Glasgow is a native of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelors of Music degree in organ performance at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music under Dr. Michael Unger. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Music degree in Organ Performance at Indiana University under Dr. Janette Fishell. He currently serves as the Assistant Organist at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Harrods Creek, Kentucky, having served as organ intern at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana and organ scholar at Covenant-First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has performed a variety of both solo and collaborative recitals, performing a wide variety of repertoire to reflect the organ’s vast musical tradition. He has received the Roger and Claribelle Schlemmer Scholarship Endowment for his musical accomplishments and was highlighted by the UC Foundation in their “Philanthropy Friday” series.
Neal Campbell has been the organist of Trinity Church in Vero Beach, Florida since 2015. Prior to that he held positions in Connecticut and Virginia, including ten years on the adjunct faculty of the University of Richmond. He grew up in Washington, D. C. and studied with several notable musicians there, including William Watkins and Paul Callaway. He attended the University of Maryland where he studied piano with Roy Hamlin Johnson and choral conducting with Paul Traver. He earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, studying in varying capacities with several leading organists in New York including Frederick Swann, John Walker, James Litton, McNeil Robinson, Eugenia Earle, Arthur Lawrence, and Alec Wyton. He earned the D.M.A. degree in 1996 for which he wrote his dissertation on the life and works of New York composer and organist Harold Friedell. He and his choir from St. Stephen’s Church in Richmond, Va. recorded an album of Friedell’s works which appeared on the Pro Organo label. He has served the American Guild of Organists in several capacities including three terms on the National Council from 2000-2006 representing Region III. He increasingly spends his time on writing and research projects, and speaking engagements on various topics related to the organ and sacred music in the 20th century. His articles have been published in The Diapason, The American Organist, Musical Heritage Review, and The Living Church, and most of them are archived on his website: nealcampbell.wordpress.com.