Part-time Organist and Music Director

All Saints Episcopal Church is seeking a part-time Director of Music (15 to 18 hours per week). The ideal candidate will have experience as a choral conductor and church organist. He or she should have experience with a broad range of worship styles. The candidate should also have an interest in developing a music program for the entire parish.

The first major responsibility of the Music Director is to provide music for the Sunday traditional worship services. This duty includes working with the clergy on liturgical planning, playing the organ for the service, and conducting the adult SATB choir. The music for these services is rooted in, but not limited to, the Anglican and Western Classical tradition.

This person must be an experienced and successful choral conductor with a welcoming and pastoral style, able to work with a choir of volunteers who, although older, have above-average music reading skills. The choir is looking for someone who will be a vocal coach and teacher, as well as a conductor. Choir members seek someone who will challenge them to improve and excel as a choir and ensure that they are thoroughly and confidently prepared for the choral parts of the service each week. The Parish Choir has historically sung from September through May. There is a mid-week rehearsal and a pre-service rehearsal on Sunday.

The ideal candidate will be an organist with strong service playing skills. The primary qualifications being sought in an organist are the ability to play hymns and service music in such a way as to inspire the congregation to sing boldly, as well as to accompany the choir sensitively and securely. The organ is a three manual and pedal Walker digital organ with a Rodgers console.

The second major responsibility will be to develop new ensembles appropriate to the parish such as youth choirs, handbell groups, etc. Currently volunteer parishioners work with young children. The Handbell groups have access to a three octave set of Malmark handbells, which the church owns.

The candidate will be someone who takes the Christian faith seriously, expressing it in all that is done in the service of the parish. This person will take an interest and participate in the larger life of the parish. Salary is commensurate with experience.

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Hilton Head Island is a resort community with a large retirement population. It has a remarkably active cultural life for a community of its size. Hilton Head is located between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.

All Saints Episcopal Church is part of the Episcopal Church of South Carolina, and is a part of the ECUSA. Our parish is a welcoming, progressive, inclusive and energetic one. Its theology and ministry are firmly in line with the national church. All Saints Episcopal Church has a strong history of mission and concern for social justice issues.