Choir Selected for Distinguished Honor Abroad

The All Saints Episcopal Church’s parish choir has been selected to serve as the choir-in-residents at a cathedral in the United Kingdom next summer.

The San Marco choir will travel to St. Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England for the opportunity to lead music at six Evensongs and one Sunday morning eucharist from July 10 to 20 next year, during the St. Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir’s summer vacations. The cathedral regularly hosts visiting choirs from the United Kingdom and around the globe during summer, Christmas and Easter.

“This is a special and rare opportunity for Jacksonville Episcopal Churches–I think the Cathedral’s choir completed a choral residency well over a decade ago–and a historic first for the All Saints Parish in San Marco,” said Dr. Michael Mastronicola, All Saints Episcopal director of music. “It really is a unique and rare opportunity for this local church of All Saints, and really for any church in Jacksonville.”