Music Ministry
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Our Choirs
'Arise!'
This contemporary choir at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Aberdeen provides music for the Sunday, 11:15 AM Mass with a repertoire that focuses on the best of today's Catholic liturgical music. Rehearsals is 10:30 AM on Sunday mornings, just before Mass, to make it easier for our younger and working members.
We currently also have a group of young violinists that play with us every week - if you play an instrument and have improving sight reading skills we would love to have you!If you are interested in singing or playing an instrument at this Mass, contact our Music Director Mr. Feargal King below.
St. Joan Of Arc Choir
This is our 'traditional' choir at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, which provides music for the Sunday 8:30 AM Mass with a wide repertoire drawing from traditional to modern day composers of sacred music. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings 6:30-8:00 PM, September to May. Instrumentalists are also welcome. If you live in Aberdeen or anywhere in Harford County or beyond, are an older teen or adult who likes to sing in harmony, we would love for you to come and sing with us.
Cantor Ministry
Cantors are singers with some training and experience who lead the responsorial psalm, gospel acclamation, and the assembly in song. Cantor ministry is not for beginners and requires a higher bar of musical ability and confidence than other music ministry participation. If you have a special gift for singing and a pleasant voice, we would love to hear from you.Instrumentalists
We would love to enhance our worship with more instruments ... is you have some demonstrated ability and can read music (for classical instruments) please let us know. At this time we would especially love to hear from percussionists (drummers), and bassists ...Our Director
Feargal King joined our staff at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Aberdeen MD, in January 2020. In a career spanning three decades he has directed numerous choirs and ensembles, including serving as director of the Diocesan Chorale at St. Peter Cathedral in Rockford IL for 15 years. He has also directed several large children's choirs over many years, and led choir concert tours to Ireland and Italy. He uses a wide variety of church music from traditional chant to contemporary praise music and everything in between. Feargal believes in making music-making fun for volunteer musicians and his goal is for St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church to have the best church music in Harford County!
Feargal is also a composer of contemporary sacred music with GIA Publications Inc., OCP Publications and through his own website, kingsongs.net