ART RECEPTION WITH MICHELLE LUM
PIANO AND VIOLIN CONCERT – MICAELA LUM & KATHY PERSON
STEPHANIE TRICK AND PAOLA ALDERIGHI
RECORDING ARTIST SARA GROVES AT GLORIA DEI
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026, 7PM (Tickets coming soon.)
American contemporary Christian singer, record producer, and author.
She has released 10 albums and appeared on several others. Groves has been nominated for three Dove Awards, including New Artist of the Year in 2002 and Special Event Album of the Year 2003 by the Gospel Music Association. She was named one of the best Christian music artists of 2005 and the album, Add to the Beauty, was named Album of the Year for 2005 by CCM Magazine.
Groves started writing songs when she was four years old. She describes her youth as being “lonesome”, and she wrote about deep issues while still in junior high school. Eventually, she took a songwriting course, prompted by her husband, and she began to take the art seriously.
Groves’ ninth album, Fireflies & Songs, was released on November 17, 2009. On the track “From This One Place,” Groves sings about her battles with onstage anxiety attacks. The album, Fireflies and Songs, was named Album of the Year by Christianity Today as the “runaway” No. 1 choice by a panel of ten music critics choosing Christianity Today’s Top 12 Albums of 2009. Groves ended 2009 with her first solo Christmas tour performing songs from her 2008 Holiday release O Holy Night.
Groves released her tenth album Invisible Empires on October 18, 2011. Groves produced several live music videos in support of the album, including a video with Stephen Mason of Jars of Clay for the song “Eyes on the Prize”.
In 2012 Groves and her husband launched “Art House North”. In describing the space, the Groves write: “The heart of Art House is to provide ‘resources that communicate the worth and necessity of all vocations with access to speakers, teachers, and guest artists. All Art House programs promote community, life, and world engagement, helping people become more and more interested in the same things that Jesus is interested in.'”
DANIELA Y SU MARIACHI
SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2024
Bring a friend and enjoy some wonderful music! Concerts are held in the sanctuary at 6pm.
August 2nd at 6pm – Darius Miertschin, classical guitarist;
August 16 at 6pm – Micaela Lum, pianist;
August 30th at 6pm – Harrison Michael, pianist/vocalist.
BILLY STEELE IN WORSHIP
In July of 2011 Mark competed in Guitar Player Magazine’s International Guitar Superstar Competition in Nashville
THE WARTBURG COLLEGE CHOIR
Organist Hanna Lee, a native of Seoul, Korea, received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa studying with Delbert Disselhorst and Delores Bruch. Her Doctoral thesis explored the works of contemporary French composer, Naji Hakim, and his musical language and extra musical association in his pieces. She holds degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degrees in Organ Performance at Yonsei University in Seoul studying with Myoung-Ja Cho. She completed Graduate Certificate in Organ Performance at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she studied with Wolfgang Rübsam. She studied with Piet Kee and Ewald Kooiman focusing on organ music of J. S. Bach and North German School in Netherland. Currently, Hanna Lee is a faculty member of Jeongdong Organ Academy in Seoul, Korea.
Kangwon Lee Kim is a versatile violinist with repertoire ranging from baroque to 21st century using both baroque and modern violins. She has given recitals throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Norway and Czech Republic, and the live recording of her performances have been heard on National Public Radio, WFLN in Philadelphia, and Wisconsin Public Radio. Ms. Kim was Assistant Professor in violin and chamber music at Biola University in CA and has also taught at Ripon College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lawrence University Conservatory. Currently, she is the Assistant Artistic Director and concertmaster of Madison Bach Musicians and often plays solo and leads the ensemble. During the summer, Ms. Kim teaches at Credo summer chamber music festival at Oberlin College. Ms. Kim lives in Middleton, WI with her husband and two sons and keeps an active teaching and performing schedule.