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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 chaired 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 Chaplain for the Central Florida Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Canon Lane has also recorded eight CDs with St. Luke’s choirs. 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, soprano, is a private voice teacher with over thirty years experience as soloist, teacher, conductor, clinician and vocal coach. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Claire has enjoyed performing with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra under renowned conductors. Claire currently directs the Orlando Deanery Girls Choir working closely with Canon Benjamin Lane and the Orlando Deanery Boychoir at The Cathedral Church of St. Luke. Together, the choirs have toured Canada, Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic and the United States under her direction since 1999. In conjunction with her work with the choir, Claire has served as voice teacher and vocal coach for summer courses with the Royal School of Church Music in America in New York City, Boston, North Carolina, and Alabama. Claire is excited to be working under the direction of Janice Stieber Rous with whom she is learning Janice’s technique, Body Dialogue, to bring a new level of body awareness and breathing coordination to help singers gain more confidence, control, resonance, and freedom while singing. She is currently teaching private voice lessons in southwest Orlando as well as downtown Orlando. (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.