Music plays a crucial role in worship at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, inspiring us to enter into God’s presence and serving as a conduit for God’s word. It influences each worshiper's state of mind, promoting joy, gratefulness, self-reflection, reverence, and contemplation; and it forms us into one unified body, a community that seeks God and serves God together.
St. Luke’s is blessed to have a thriving music ministry that includes an adult choir and children’s choir; weekly worship services in which the beautiful sounds of our pipe organ and grand piano can be heard emanating throughout the church; and a host of talented professional and amateur musicians who regularly play on Sundays and feast days.
To hear our musicians in action, please click the video below with highlights from our Easter Sunday services in 2023.
The music program at St. Luke’s is led by organist, pianist, and choirmaster Kate Weber-Petrova. Kate has been a professional church musician for about twenty years and has performed as a recitalist and collaborative musician throughout the Baltimore/DC and Milwaukee areas. An accomplished pianist, organist, and mezzo soprano, Kate believes that the variety she offers as a musician brings a richness and diversity to worship that mirrors the manner in which most people listen to and connect with music today. Kate has a bachelor of music from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and a master of arts from the University of Maryland, where she was previously on the musicology faculty.