MUSIC

The Professionals

The Music Director and Choirmaster is Dr. Scott Rieker, also the Director of Choral Activities and Choral Music Education at Frostburg State University. Our organist is Mark W. Steiner, who is also the owner of the Steiner-Murphy Organ Company.

Additional instrumentalists add beauty to worship on Christmas, Easter, and other special occasions, offering preludes and postludes as well as accompanying hymns and service music

The Organ

The current organ at Emmanuel is a 1984 rebuild of a 1952 M. P. Mohler instrument that is regularly upgraded by the Steiner-Murphy Pipe Organ Co. of Cumberland. It has 21 ranks, consisting of Great and Swell divisions at the back of the Church and a Chancel division at the front. In 2003, a trumpette en chamade was added as part of the Parish Bicentennial.

Sacred Music Interns

Each semester, four music interns from Frostburg University join us for Sunday music and special music programs. They add their musical talents and learn about Sacred Music at Emmanuel.