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Trinity's choir provides a ministry in music as we worship. Like other
lay participants, singers volunteer their talent to the parish. I
would be delighted to talk with you about becoming involved.
M. Grey Brothers, Choir
Director
Grey Brothers, the Choir Director of Trinity Episcopal Church,
serves in a number of distinguished professional capacities: he directs
the Westmont Chamber Singers and is the Chair of the Music Department
at Westmont College in Montecito where he teaches voice, music history,
and church music.
Grey also has an active performance career, including singing with
the vocal ensemble Qualche Voce, with whom he recently completed a
recording of works of Paul Hindemith, and appeared as soloist with
Santa Barbara and Ventura choral groups and in local stage productions.
Grey has sung the tenor roles in Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt,
the Mass in B minor and Magnificat of Bach, Haydn's Creation, Puccini's
Messa di Gloria, and several masses by Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert.
Theater roles have included Pirelli in Stephen Sonheim's Sweeney Todd,
and Nanki-Poo in The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. For the past
two years, Grey has sung as a member of the Oregon Bach Festival chorus
under Helmut Rilling.
Grey is also a conductor, having served as assistant conductor of
the choruses at UCSB, including a one-year appointment as guest conductor
of UCSB's early music chorus, Cappella Cordina. A doctoral candidate
in musicology at UCSB, Grey's dissertation deals with the choral music
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