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Music Ministry
250 volunteers participate in the Music and Arts Ministry that includes three children’s choirs, ages 4 years through 5th grade; Bella Voce, a girl’s youth choir, grades 6 through 12; a Chancel Choir that sings classical, traditional, and spirituals on a weekly basis; Schola Cantorum chamber choir; and Celebration Choir that sings contemporary choral music on a monthly basis. Instrumental music groups include a handbell ensemble and a brass ensemble.The mission of Shandon’s Music and Arts Ministry is “building the Body of Christ through God’s creative gifts.” The primary focus of the Music Ministry is the Sunday services of worship, but this mission finds embodiment in a number of other ways.
Music and Arts sponsors a Sweetheart Dinner in February, and in the summer a Music and Arts Camp for children in grades 1-6, as well as rotating art exhibits in the Rose Art Gallery that continue throughout the year.
Throughout the year, the Music Ministry performs various concerts, celebrates a Traditional Music Ministry Sunday, and each December offers the popular and inspiring “Love Feast with Lessons and Carols.”
Last June, the Bella Voce Youth Choir was selected to atttend the Eighth Annual Crescent City Choral Festival in downtown New Orleans, LA. Bella Voce was selected as one of five choirs nationwide to attend this prestigious choral festival. Bella Voce was the only church choir attending the festival. The other four were civic choirs comprised of youth who auditioned for the choirs.
All of these are tangible expressions of God’s blessings to Shandon and our vision for a dynamic arts ministry enabling participants to experience God’s love, respond in faith, and go forth to witness with joy.
Timothy Hein is the Director of Music and Arts at Shandon. He is also Music Director of the South Carolina Laity Convocation held at Lake Junaluska, NC.
A native of Iowa, Dr. Hein is a graduate of Coe College, where he earned a B. Mus. degree and was awarded the Nell E. Erwin Prize for Outstanding Senior in Music. He earned his M. Mus. degree from Northwestern University as a student of Margaret Hillis and John Paynter. He
was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Music degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation with study at Oxford University, England. In addition, he has studied conducting with Fredrick Fennell and Helmuth Rilling.Over the past twenty-seven years, Dr. Hein has served churches in Iowa, Illinois, Virginia, Oklahoma and South Carolina. In 2004, he received the "Award of Distinction" from the National Religious Music Week Association for developingand maintaining one of the finest music programs in the nation. He has been a clinician for American Guild of English Handbell Ringers and Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship, Music and Other Arts conferences. Ensembles conducted by Dr. Hein have toured throughout the eastern United States, Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, and Wales. His article, "Church Music Theology," is published in the book Foundation Theology 2005.
