Becoming a Pastoral Musician should be an enjoyable and uplifting experience!

Therefore, an online registration form is ready to serve that purpose. Please be sure to indicate your Mass preference by marking a 1 next to your first preference, 2 next to your second preference etc. You can email Don Giannella with any questions or comments.

All students (including new students) at Villanova University are welcome. The first rehearsal of the Fall semester is an organizational rehearsal where new members are welcome, and there is also an open enrollment period which lasts from August through Fall break.

Singers

• should have some experience singing, holding pitch, and experience in choruses, choirs or other singing groups is helpful.

Instrumentalists

• should possess intermediate level skills, should be able to sight read fairly well, and possibly transpose concert C music into the instrument's key. Instrument lessons are generally not provided.

Pastoral Musicians currently include:

• Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
• Guitar, Bass Guitar
• Flute
• Clarinet
• Trumpet
• Violin, Viola
• Piano, Organ, Synthesizer
• Percussion

All orchestral type instrumentalists are invited to participate. We are currently especially searching for cellists [to round out the string section], More trumpeters and trombonists [for brass quartet/quintet], oboists for the wind section, keyboardists [piano/organ] and of course all voice parts, especially Tenors.

Time commitment is a major component of any ministry. All members are expected to attend the 1.5 hour rehearsal every Tuesdays, as well as their assigned Mass on Sundays. Also, members are expected to arrange their schedules to participate in the various special events which take place during the year.

A typical week will include 1 hour and 45 minutes for mass [including pre-mass warm-up] and 1.5 hours for rehearsal = a total of 3.25 hours.