Acclaimed early music specialist Ruben Valenzuela will lead All Souls\u2019 Episcopal Church, Point Loma, music program beginning Feb. 21.
\nAs director of music, Valenzuela will be All Souls\u2019 organist and choir director. He will provide leadership for music within the parish as well as in “music as mission” outreach to the larger community.
\nHe will support and build on All Souls\u2019 tradition of worship and music, including special services such as fourth Sunday Evensongs and Saturday evening Celtic services. In addition, he will be the director of All Souls\u2019 “Music on the Point” concert series. He will also develop an after-school music program for young people.
\nValenzuela will play his first services at All Souls\u2019 on Feb. 21 during the 5 p.m. Celtic service and Sunday, Feb. 22 at the 10:15 a.m. service and 5 p.m. Evensong.
\n“We are thrilled and excited to welcome Ruben Valenzuela as our director of music,” said The Rev. Joseph Dirbas, rector of All Souls\u2019. “And we look forward to the continued growth and development of our music program for the church and for the community.”
\nValenzuela will be the third All Souls\u2019 organist since the church commissioned its Fritts-Richards organ. This three-rank instrument was handcrafted with the voice and temperament of German baroque organs from the time of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.
\nValenzuela is a noted conductor, keyboardist, musicologist and church music director, most recently at St. Peter\u2019s Episcopal Church, Del Mar. He is founder and director of the Bach Collegium San Diego, which specializes in providing historically informed performances of repertoire from the Renaissance, baroque and early Classical eras. He regularly collaborates with many of the outstanding musicians working today in early music. As a musicologist his interests include Novo-Hispanic music (1520-1820), which has led him to undertake musical and liturgical research at Mexico City Cathedral. He is excited to begin his music ministry at All Souls\u2019 Church where he will work to develop a comprehensive liturgical music program, and utilize the gifts offered by the notable Fritts-Richards organ Valenzuela lives in San Diego with his wife Anne-Marie Dicce and their two children, Clara and David.
\nFor more information about All Souls\u2019 Episcopal Church, visit www.allsoulspointloma.org.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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