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51 West Blackwell Street, Dover, NJ  07801
Tel:  (973) 366-0216; Fax:  (973) 366-0150
Email:  FMPC@att.net

 

Music Ministry  

We believe that music is a gift from God.  Through music we can express the heights of human joy as well as the depths of human sadness.  Through music our hearts may be lifted into God's presence renewing our strength while music also calls God into the depths of human experience to reaffirm our hope in God's love and power.  As with God's other good gifts, music by its nature seeks to be shared, and to enrich human life.

 

Welcome to our new Choir Director/Organist - Kathleen Burke

Kathleen grew up in Union, NJ.  Her vocal background includes solo work in churches as well as the New jersey Opera Festival.  She toured Europe with a choir based in the Lehigh Valley, PA, where she went to college.  In addition to playing the organ since the age of 9, Kathleen has played violin and viola in orchestras i n NJ and PA and has been playing piano and guitar for most of her life.  she enjoys performing a accompanying a great variety of musical styles, including gospel, contemporary Christian, classical, opera, art songs, new age, jazz, and roadway.  Kathleen's musical family includes her brother, renowned jazz Trombonist Steve Swell.

While living in the Midwest for 9 years, Kathleen earned an M.A. in theology from he University of Notre Dame.  She worked in churches and parochial schools in Indiana and Wisconsin as music minister and liturgist; religious education administrator; and as a high school theology teacher, campus minister, pastoral counselor, and retreat facilitator.

A career in educational publishing brought Kathleen back to new jersey in 1090.  She spent 1 years developing and editing Music and Religious Education materials for public and private schools.  Alongside the publishing work, Kathleen continued working part-time as a church music director - enjoying the very best of many different liturgical and musical traditions.  For the past ten years, she served as music director at Hilldale Park Presbyterian Church in Cedar Knolls.  Since January 2005, Kathleen as been teaching piano and guitar at Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone.

Kathleen is also a trained spiritual director 9Tree of Life Institute, based in the Princeton area) and serves on retreat teams for the ecumenical community known as Tres Dias of Northern New Jersey.  Tres Dias is an international community that aims to develop personal spirituality and church leadership.  Her next adventures include learning how to play and direct Handbells and training as a leader for the Intensive Journal Workshops based in the New York area.

 

 

 

 

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