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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.
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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.
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Melissa Ramb
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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.
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