Accompanist
Join our music team and enhance the worship of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church playing piano music during worship services and rehearsals.
Pay:
$175 per weekly worship services.
$175 for special worship services like Christmas Eve.
$60 for seasonal midweek worship services.
Hourly rate for occasional meetings.
Essential Functions:
- Support Chancel Singers during weekly Wednesday night rehearsals.
- Accompany Chancel Singers during worship, both the traditional worship services and at special services (Christmas concert, Lenten services, Holy Week, etc.).
- Accompany congregation on piano during hymns at the weekly traditional services and all summer services.
- Provide piano music throughout the traditional worship services (prelude, offertory, prayers, communion, postlude, etc.).
- Accompany vocalists and ensembles that lead worship during traditional and special worship services.
- Arrive 20 minutes before each service to ensure prelude begins on time.
- Must be available Sunday mornings for worship, Wednesdays for Choir Accompaniment and Lent Services, and for special holiday services including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Easter, Good Friday, Maundy Thursday, and others as requested.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Excellent proficiency in organ and piano playing, reading music and performing.
- Must be acquainted with the Lutheran church liturgy, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, and contemporary hymns.
- Experience with accompanying choral and instrumentalist groups during rehearsal and worship services.
- Ability to lead congregational singing with playing skills.
- Sight-read music.
- Takes direction and provides feedback to choral conductor.