There are many ways to share your gift!
Join an ensemble
St. Andrew's is home to a diverse music program which includes four vocal choirs, two handbell choirs, multiple full orchestra Eucharist performances per year, as well as a monthly concert series and additional seasonal programming. Whether you're 8 or 80, there are musical opportunities for you.
Offer a solo musical work
Please consider sharing your musical gift at the 10:00 am service. Younger soloists are invited to perform at the 9:15 am Family Eucharist - a great place to share their budding gift and serve as a role model for our youngest parishioners.
Volunteer your time for music publicity
Interested in contributing to our Music Ministry but feel your talents lie elsewhere? We can always use help with music related mailings and general publicity.
The Rev. Alan Gibson Choir Scholar Scholarship
In honor of Fr. Alan’s legacy of music cultivation in our parish, the Rev. Alan Gibson Choir Scholar Scholarship fund has been established. Scholarships will be awarded to qualified full-time college level music majors, and they will then sing in the Adult Choir for the Academic year. Donations are welcomed, contact Dr. Deborah Friauff for more information.
Dr. Deborah Friauff, Director of Music & Organist
Dr. Deborah Friauff performs professionally as a soprano, organist and conductor. As Director of Music and Organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor, she oversees six parish choirs, organizes an annual concert series, and plans and executes music for all liturgical events in parish life, including a chanted service of Compline.
A native of Traverse City, she began studying the organ at the age of eight with Betty Kurtz. She graduated with honors from Interlochen Arts Academy as an organ major under Robert Murphy, and also studied viola with David Holland and voice with Kenneth Jewell and Carolyn Grimes. After completing Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ at the University of Michigan under Marilyn Mason, Friauff was awarded the Georges Lurcy Fellowship for study in France. There she studied with renowned recitalist Marie-Claire Alain at the Conservatoire National de Région, concentrating on the works of Jehan Alain, and was unanimously awarded the Premier Prix d’Orgue with the felicitations of the jury. She was also a prize winner in the Chicago Club of Women Organists Gruenstein competition, and the International Undergraduate Organ competition in Ottumwa, Iowa. Friauff completed her DMA degree in organ at the University of Michigan under Robert Glasgow. She has performed across the country in venues such as the San Anselmo Organ Festival in California and the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as for Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. Her performance at the 1995 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society has been issued on the OHS label in a CD entitled Historic Organs of Michigan.
As a singer who has focused almost exclusively on early music, she has studied Gregorian chant at St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana with Columba Kelly, OSB, and at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota with Anthony Ruff, OSB. Further studies took place over three summers at the University of British Columbia’s Early Music Vancouver Festival, where she was a participant in both the Baroque and Medieval vocal music programmes, studying with soprano Ellen Hargis and Benjamin Bagby of Sequentia, respectively. She has also coached with Frances Brockington, Jane Heirich and Wendall Bloom, and has sung soprano in the professional early music vocal ensemble VOX. She founded the St. Thomas Chant Schola in Ann Arbor and has also directed the early music ensembles Sine Nomine of East Lansing, Michigan, and the Ann Arbor Grail Singers of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Music at St. Andrew's relies on the financial and logistical support of benefactors and parishioners. Without your help we are unable to bring such glorious music to life.
Please consider giving your time and energy to our music ministries or give a financial gift to the St. Cecilia fund or the Rev. Alan Gibson Choir Scholar Scholarship.