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Music Staff Benjamin Lane - Canon Musician Diane Maxson - Music Coordinator Claire Hodge - Choral Assistant Melissa Ramb - Choral Assistant M.J. Waldo - Music Librarian

Benjamin Lane Ben Lane is the Canon Musician at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke, where he has directed a diverse music ministry since 1991. As the director of several concert series and many choirs, including the Orlando Deanery Boychoir, his concerts are broadcast occasionally on Orlando’s classical public radio station. Each year his choirs tour to cathedrals and concert halls in places such as England, Central Europe, Japan, Canada, New York City, Washington, the Bahamas, all over Florida and the eastern US. He has recorded seven CDs with Saint. Luke’s choirs. Canon Lane chairs the Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. He also serves as Diocesan Coordinator and as a faculty member for the nationally acclaimed Leadership Program for Musicians, offering continuing education for professional church musicians. He is also the Chaplin for the Central Florida Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Canon Lane has served churches in Chicago and Wisconsin, and previously taught and directed music at Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary near Milwaukee. He holds degrees in organ and church music from the University of Southern Mississippi and Northwestern University. He studied musicology for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His compositions include choral, vocal, and liturgical works, and some are published by St. James Press. (Click here to print information.)   Claire Hodge   Claire Hodge is the Director of the Orlando Deanery Girls Choir. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, she has over twenty years experience as a soloist, teacher, conductor, clinician, and vocal coach. She served as the Box Office Manager for the Orlando Opera, where she has sung supporting roles, and is a vocal coach for the Orlando Youth Opera. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and has served as vocal coach for the Royal School of Church Music summer choir course. (Click here to print information.)   Melissa Ramb Soprano Melissa Ramb is the Director of Choristers at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. She grew up at the Cathedral and feels blessed to serve in the parish that helped shape her both spiritually and musically. An honors graduate of both Wake Forest University (Bachelor of Arts) and University of Tennessee (Masters of Music), she has performed in opera, oratorio, concert, and musical theater throughout the United States and abroad. She has directed the Children’s and Training Choirs at St. James Catholic Church, teaches voice privately, is a certified Music Together teacher, and an author with articles published in the internationally distributed magazine, Classical Singer. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous groups including the Orlando Opera Company, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, the Lake Placid Institute, First Coast Opera, the Orlando Philharmonic, and First Presbyterian Church Orchestra and Choir. An avid fan of contemporary music, she has collaborated to premiere and perform works by composers including Canon Benjamin Lane, Robert Schaefer, Dan Locklair, Dave Brubeck, and George Atwell. In 2008 she was granted a Professional Artist Grant from United Arts of Central Florida to help premiere Atwell’s Millennium Mass at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Ms. Ramb has trained under internationally acclaimed Metropolitan Opera sopranos Pamela Coburn and Stella Zambalis. In addition to singing and choral training, she enjoys time with her husband and two daughters.