Music At Eden

Professional Staff
Eden’s music programs are directed by our Music Director, Lee Steward, who with our organist, Loris Coburn, brings a level of musicianship and magnanimity to the ministry of music that is without peer for a church of our size.

Vocal Music
Sunday worship features choral and congregational singing performed and supported by our Intergenerational Choir (high school through adult). Musical selections vary in period and style. Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. Our young people receive music education as part of Church School, and rehearse and perform in Advent, Christmas, Holy Week, and Pentecost services.

Instrumental Music
Our Swain and Kates pipe organ was designed in Germany and purchased and installed in the Sanctuary in 1965. The organ has a full pedal and three manual keyboards with thirty-three ranks allowing for an enormous variety of instrumental sounds. Piano accompaniment on the Steinway grand piano is a frequent feature of Sunday services. Instruments heard at special services include brass, woodwinds, strings, handbells, Orff keyboards, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, synthesizer, and drums. 

2011-2012 Eden Performing Arts Concert Series

The 2nd season of Eden's Performing Arts Series includes four world class singers from the Bay Area.

Our 2011-2012 series concludes on March 18 at 3 p.m. with lyric soprano Jessica House Steward. Ms. House Steward made her Carnegie Hall recital debut singing world premiere vocal works of composer Gerald Busby, and she collaborated with world-renowned pianist Kenneth Merrill on a vocal recital at Greenfield Recital Hall in New York City. For three years Ms. House Steward performed with John Wustman in his Schubert Song Recital Series. Outside the U.S. she has given several recitals including the Neues Residenz and St. Mark’s Kapelle in Salzburg, Austria, and All Souls Episcopal Church in Okinawa, Japan. The beneficiary for March's concert is Eden I&R.

Our concert series is one of the East Bay’s only collaborations of artistic talent and local charities through live music performance. We hope you will attend one or both of the concerts and support Art for Goodness Sake.

For information about the Performing Arts Concert Series at Eden Church, please contact Lee Steward.

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  Jessica House Steward, Soprano

Listen to selections from the 2011–2012 Performing Arts Concert Series:

Marie Plette, September 2011

•  O Malheureuse Iphigenie

• Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod

Ryan Belongie, November 2011

• Les Cloches, L'echelonnement des haies, Claire de lune, Beau Soir