Music and the arts are important parts of our life as a community. Our worship gatherings, performing artist concerts, art shows, classes and retreats all use the creative energy of music and art as a spiritual practice. In fact, innovation and creativity are highly valued here. We want to create a community that naturally attracts people who can express their own creativity or enjoy the creativity of others. Our community canvas is filled with a diverse, energetic population of interesting and interested people.
Our musical heritage is one of the world’s richest and most deeply spiritual. It’s an extremely diverse and multilayered art that brings together many traditions from England to South Africa, from the Americas to Asia. If it connects us to God, then we’ll use it.
Chancel Choir
A choral ensemble of professional standards that does much more than just sing. They are true musicians who bring out the spirit in all of us. Rehearsals are Sundays at 12 noon, following the morning service, with a brief warm-up rehearsal each week at 9am beforethe liturgy.
All Souls Day: Fauré Requiem
On Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 3:00pm, All Souls Day, the choir, soloists, and the Monteverde Quartet will offer Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem. Many churches observe All Souls Day (the day after All Saints Day) with the presentation of a requiem, a service for the dead. A Requiem is a mass for the dead, originally intended for funeral services. The name comes from the first line: ‘Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine’ — ‘Grant them eternal rest, Lord’. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation.
Fauré’s Requiem is performed as a musical prayer and a profound spiritual experience during the liturgy, rather than just a concert, with many churches incorporating it into a Memorial Eucharist for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed. This practice provides solace and hope, as Fauré’s work is known for its tender, consoling qualities that depict a gentle passing into eternal peace, culminating in the bright In Paradisum movement. By incorporating Fauré’s Requiem into a liturgical service, it functions as a deep and sacred prayer rather than just a performance
If Fauré’s educational past built the foundation for his religious musical expressions, his personal life was largely responsible for the Requiem. In 1885, his father died; his mother passed away two and a half years later. In between these two catastrophes, Fauré penned his homage to the dead.
The Gallery 2025-2026 Season
The Gallery at St. Asaph’s features local artists throughout the year in exhibits that change monthly. Our gallery space provides an attractive venue for artists and a welcoming meeting place for the community. Art openings are welcoming and energized events connecting us further with the creativity we embrace.
David Simon Greene
October 3 through November 2, 2025
Opening Friday, October 3, 2025, 6:00pm to 7:30pmDavid Simon Greene and Janet Wells Greene worked in “freedom schools” in West Virginia, New York, and Ohio, teaching labor law and employee rights to working-class people whose jobs in coal mining and auto factories sometimes cost them their lives, their health, or serious injury. David’s paintings document their social activism and a film, “Revolutionary Hearts,” tells their story.
A recent film by Mary E. Lutz and Peter Kinoy about the couple’s work, Revolutionary Hearts, was shown at the Athens International Film + Video Festival. In it, Greene is quoted saying: “I’d been working with people who were trying to organize together, including myself, to get some justice out of this economic and political system.”
The documentary will be shown during the course of the art opening at the Gallery, Friday, October 3.
Chantal Westby
November 7 through December 7, 2025
Opening Friday, November 7, 2025
Chris Cox
December 12, 2025 through January 11, 2026
Opening Friday, December 12, 2025
Mark Coffey
January 16 through February 15, 2026
Opening Friday, January 16, 2026Open Call: Art for Sustainability
February 20 through March 29, 2026 (Lent)
Opening Friday, February 20, 2026
Layla Wah
April 5 (Easter Sunday) through May 3, 2026
Opening April 10, 2026
Carolyn Blacker
An exhibition of art and poetry by incarcerated individuals.
May 8 through June 19, 2026
Opening Friday, May 8, 2026
Concerts
St. Asaph’s beautiful Gothic revival sanctuary provides an inspiring venue for worship and for concert events. Our flexible seating allows for intimate settings for smaller ensembles and acoustics that draw the listener in to even greater connection with the performance.
Kairos Trio in Concert
Tom Di Sarlo – violin, Talia Schiff – cello, Kasia Marzec-Salwinski – piano
Sunday, October 26, 2025
3:00pm
Music By Paul Juon, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Felix Mendelssohn
Free-will offering