Andrew Galuska
Director of Music and Fine Arts
Music and the fine arts are at the core of Community Church’s celebration of God and its spiritual life. Both reflect the order, beauty and diversity of God’s creation. Praising God through music and art is one of our most popular and celebrated forms of ministry at Community Church.
Different voices, instruments, musical styles and arrangements are blended by our staff, volunteer and professional choirs, musicians into a vital, living, and unified reflection of God’s work.
Music and art confirms that the gospel is as relevant today as it was centuries ago. Old and new Hymns tell the biblical story and teach the nature of God from other cultures, languages and eras.
Community Church Chancel Choir sings a wide variety of traditional and contemporary religious music and performs major choral works with the orchestra several times a year. Members of the choir may choose which service they would like to participate in or may sing at all the services. There is no audition to be in the Chancel Choir. All are welcome to come sing! For more information and to sign up, please click here.
The Chapel Choir is an extension of our Chancel Choir. Choir members may choose to sing for anyone or as many of the services as they would like. Chancel Choir members have the option of singing for Sunday morning worship service in Grace Chapel. Chancel Choir Rehearsals will take a break after Christmas and resume Wednesday, January 4 at 6:30 p.m.
Section leaders encourage a sense of community, congeniality, and professionalism within the music ministry family and congregation. They are responsible for attending all scheduled rehearsals for Chancel Choir during the normal choir year and attend all worship services where the chancel choir serves including special performances and services during the Liturgical year. Section leaders are often selected to sing solos during “season” and participate in worship as small ensembles or solos during the summer months.
Applicants should be individuals who are currently pursuing or have already obtained a Music Degree, possess strong musical ability, and vocal training.
Interested applicants should submit a resume to the Music and Fine Arts Ministry to schedule an interview and audition.
The community Women’s ensemble is open to singers that would like to participate in special worship services throughout the year. Please contact Jill Truax if you are interested in singing with us.
The Community Ringers are open to adult ringers and participate regularly in worship services. Please contact Rachel Murphy if you are interested in ringing with us!
Here we lift up the fact that we are community collaborators in music and the arts with a number of community organizations. We thank them for joining together in a common commitment to support all endeavors in music and the arts throughout Indian River County.
We are excited to share our 2022/2023 Music and Fine Arts offerings with you! It is sure to be an amazing season. Click the button below to download a copy of our 32-page booklet.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world. The Chamber Music Society has its home in Alice Tully Hall – the finest hall in the world for chamber music. Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, it draws more people to chamber music than any other organization of its kind.
This season the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will be featured in three concerts for the 2022-2023 Concert Series at The Community Church of Vero Beach.
Tuesday, January 17 - 7:00 p.m.
Schubert
Monday, March 20 - 7:00 p.m.
Arensky - Brahms
Tickets are $35 each and may be purchased in advance or at the door. (Online ticket sales are available here for the whole season.)
Click here to download a booklet about our amazing Lively-Fulcher Organ.
In 2020 the Community Church of Vero Beach established the Viner Series for the Visual Arts to showcase the work of area artists. The series is named for Teryl Townsend Viner who served Community Church as a Deacon and as a member of its Board of Music and Fine Arts. A gifted painter, Teryl is listed in” Who’s Who of American Art”. In 2012 she was commissioned to create a painting for the church’s newly renovated chapel. You can view her work, Reflection, in the Narthex of Grace Chapel.
Viner Series For the Visual Arts: Our Narthex Gallery welcomes artists Gus and Jan Miller from February to March. Gus and Jan have a life in the arts. They met at Syracuse University, married, spent a year living in Rome, Italy and for several years Gus did the Northeast Crafts Fair with his ceramics. In the 1980s and 1990s they owned the Lange Miller Gallery in Chatham, MA, summers. Now their summers are in Stonington, CT. Vero Beach has been their winter home since 1985. Gus has watercolors in the Boston Museum of Fine Art collection. He has published a children's book titled "Hats off for the 4th of July" and one titled "Bonsai and Miniature Gardens: 30 Years of Fun in the Garden". Selected collections: Graham Gund(Boston), Marty Margolies (Miami), Addison Museum of American Art (Andover, MA), deCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA). Gus had a solo show at the Vero Beach Museum in 1987. Jan published with Amazon "Let's Color Some Pottery". She had a solo show at the Vero Beach Museum in 2004. She had a solo show at the Mystic Museum of Art in 2017. Selected collections: Addison Museum of American Art, President George H. Bush, Chicago Art Institute, Harvard Business school.
Director of Music and Fine Arts
Associate Director of Music
Administrative Coordinator for Music and Worship