MUSIC MINISTRY OFFERINGS
Thursday Evenings
MULTIPLE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Our music ministry’s activities involve:
Our Handbell Ensemble
No experience necessary and open to anyone who enjoys or would like to learn handbell ringing. The handbells contribute to worship periodically with preludes and anthems. Practice is on Thursday evenings, before choir rehearsal.
Our Sanctuary Choir
No experience necessary and open to high school students and adults. The Sanctuary Choir contributes to worship by singing hymns and anthems and generally practice on Thursday evenings.
Special Music by Our Children & Youth
Come dance, learn, and sing about God's love through song. We meet on Sunday afternoons in the fall and early spring. (Children age 3 to 5th grade)
Solos and Intrumental Music
Gifted soloists and musicians generously share their musical gifts and talents during worship services throughout the year.
MULTIPLE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Our music ministry’s activities involve:
Our Handbell Ensemble
No experience necessary and open to anyone who enjoys or would like to learn handbell ringing. The handbells contribute to worship periodically with preludes and anthems. Practice is on Thursday evenings, before choir rehearsal.
Our Sanctuary Choir
No experience necessary and open to high school students and adults. The Sanctuary Choir contributes to worship by singing hymns and anthems and generally practice on Thursday evenings.
Special Music by Our Children & Youth
Come dance, learn, and sing about God's love through song. We meet on Sunday afternoons in the fall and early spring. (Children age 3 to 5th grade)
Solos and Intrumental Music
Gifted soloists and musicians generously share their musical gifts and talents during worship services throughout the year.
Summer Concerts
Free summer concerts featuring talented musicians are provided on Sunday afternoons in June, July, and August as our gift to families, friends, and neighbors in our community.
Special and Seasonal Music Events
The Sanctuary Choir and guest musicians have shared uplifting special works, such as cantatas and Handel’s Messiah during the Advent season, and we hosted performances of “CROWNS – A Gospel Musical” by talented performers from C.N. Jenkins Presbyterian Church.
Support for Community Musicians
We provide our facilities and our encouragement to The Charlotte Singers, a community group of amateur, professional and semi-professional singers, for rehearsals and free, semi-annual community concerts.
Summer Concerts
Free summer concerts featuring talented musicians are provided on Sunday afternoons in June, July, and August as our gift to families, friends, and neighbors in our community.
Special and Seasonal Music Events
The Sanctuary Choir and guest musicians have shared uplifting special works, such as cantatas and Handel’s Messiah during the Advent season, and we hosted performances of “CROWNS – A Gospel Musical” by talented performers from C.N. Jenkins Presbyterian Church.
Support for Community Musicians
We provide our facilities and our encouragement to The Charlotte Singers, a community group of amateur, professional and semi-professional singers, for rehearsals and free, semi-annual community concerts.
Rolly Chambers & Adèle Daniels, co-chairs
The mission of the Music Committee is to ensure that music remains a vital element of prayerful congregational worship and that it is shared with our neighbors.
The committee oversees the music program of the church; supports, encourages and guides the music staff; develops and encourages the congregation to participate during worship and at special events; and provides for maintenance of the musical instruments, sheet music, and other music-related property of the church.
MUSIC STAFF
FRANK ARCHER
Director of Music
Frank’s church music career includes twenty-one years at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, NJ. There, as Organist and Choirmaster, he ran a multiple choir program and designed the Schantz pipe organ. At St. Elizabeth’s, the choir sang works by composers ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Bach to Arvo Pärt.
His Masters of Music degree in Choral Conducting (with Distinction) is from Westminster Choir College, where Frank studied conducting and organ. He was a member of the Westminster Choir and toured the United States and sang in the Spoleto Festivals in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy.
His academic career includes positions at Hunter College (NY) and tenured positions at both Caldwell University (NJ), as Professor of Music and College Organist, and Hampden-Sydney College (VA). Frank retired from Hampden-Sydney as Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts in 2015 and then moved to Charlotte. Since then, he has stayed active as both a conductor and organist. In 2023 Frank joined Providence Presbyterian Church as Director of Music.
FRANK ARCHER
Director of Music
Frank’s church music career includes twenty-one years at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, NJ. There, as Organist and Choirmaster, he ran a multiple choir program and designed the Schantz pipe organ. At St. Elizabeth’s, the choir sang works by composers ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Bach to Arvo Pärt.
His Masters of Music degree in Choral Conducting (with Distinction) is from Westminster Choir College, where Frank studied conducting and organ. He was a member of the Westminster Choir and toured the United States and sang in the Spoleto Festivals in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy.
His academic career includes positions at Hunter College (NY) and tenured positions at both Caldwell University (NJ), as Professor of Music and College Organist, and Hampden-Sydney College (VA). Frank retired from Hampden-Sydney as Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts in 2015 and then moved to Charlotte. Since then, he has stayed active as both a conductor and organist. In 2023 Frank joined Providence Presbyterian Church as Director of Music.
RONALD NICE
Organist / Pianist
Ron has been organist/pianist at Providence Presbyterian Church for over 20 years. He has been playing organ in churches since high school. While earning his master’s degree at Indiana University, Ron was Director of Music and Organist at Friedens United Church of Christ in Indianapolis.
Once he moved to the Charlotte area, Ron served as Organist at Albemarle Presbyterian Church, as Music Director at St. John Neumann Catholic Church and as Organist at Hickory Grove United Methodist Church. In 2003 Ron became Organist/Pianist at Providence Presbyterian Church.
A Philadelphia area native, Ron studied music at Temple University earning his bachelor’s degree in Music and Music Education. He went on to earn graduate music degrees (Master of Fine Arts in Organ) from The University of Florida and Indiana University. Ron is blessed with perfect pitch, an incredible music memory and sight-reading music skills, and is comfortable playing Bach and Beethoven or The Beatles and Bob Dylan. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Ron is a longtime member of The American Guild of Organists and of Phi Mu Alpha, an honorary music fraternity.
RONALD NICE
Organist / Pianist
Ron has been organist/pianist at Providence Presbyterian Church for over 20 years. He has been playing organ in churches since high school. While earning his master’s degree at Indiana University, Ron was Director of Music and Organist at Friedens United Church of Christ in Indianapolis.
Once he moved to the Charlotte area, Ron served as Organist at Albemarle Presbyterian Church, as Music Director at St. John Neumann Catholic Church and as Organist at Hickory Grove United Methodist Church. In 2003 Ron became Organist/Pianist at Providence Presbyterian Church.
A Philadelphia area native, Ron studied music at Temple University earning his bachelor’s degree in Music and Music Education. He went on to earn graduate music degrees (Master of Fine Arts in Organ) from The University of Florida and Indiana University. Ron is blessed with perfect pitch, an incredible music memory and sight-reading music skills, and is comfortable playing Bach and Beethoven or The Beatles and Bob Dylan. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Ron is a longtime member of The American Guild of Organists and of Phi Mu Alpha, an honorary music fraternity.
