Music and Fine Arts Ministry

Music and the Fine Arts are at the core of Community Church's celebration of God and its spiritual life. Both reflect the order, beauty and diversity of God's creation. Praising God through music, visual arts, and the spoken word are celebrated forms of ministry at The Community Church of Vero Beach

Choirs and Ensembles

Different voices, instruments, musical styles and arrangements are blended into a vital, living and unified reflection of God's work by staff, volunteer ensembles, and professional choirs and musicians.

Our Chancel Choir is a volunteer choir that helps facilitate Sanctuary worship. We sing a wide variety of traditional and modern sacred music as well as perform major choral works with orchestra every year. There is no audition to join the Chancel Choir. All are welcome to sing!

Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m.

2025 Spring Calendar

Our Community Singers ensemble is a mixture of paid singers and an auditioned group of volunteers. They provide music for our Chapel Service each Sunday and prepare a variety of small-group pieces.

At any given time, our small ensemble might include Women's Trio, our SATB Community Quartet, Quintet, Sextet or Octet.

Members of our Community Singers ensemble are also called upon to prepare music and solos for special services throughout the season.

Interested singers may contact Jill Truax at jill.truax@ccovb.org.

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Tapestry Brass, a five-piece brass chamber ensemble, is committed to delivering top-notch performances with unique stewardship. Aiming to glorify God, the quintet focuses on worship through energetic spirit, excellent tone, and a diverse repertoire. They showcase spiritual inspiration in sacred music by providing premier brass performances at worship services, weddings, concerts, community events, and conventions.

Michael Telesmanick Multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboard, bass, drums, guitar, vibes, and percussion), composer, producer, arranger, sound designer, vocalist, and Graduate Cum Laude from the re-known Berklee College of Music in Boston, is humbly known to his colleagues and friends as simply, "T" or "Mike T", but Michael's prowess on the ivories and his immense knowledge of music and jazz history is anything but simple.	Gary Haase Known in the industry as a quadruple threat, Gary Haase is a musician, composer, producer and recording artist. Breaking onto the New York music scene in his early twenties, Gary began working with jazz giants. Buddy Rich, Red Rodney, Bucky Pizzarelli, while building a career as a studio musician alongside, Bernard Purdie, David Spinozza, John Tropea and others. Soon more gigs came with Noel Pointer, Gato Barbieri, Larry Carlton, Ronnie Laws, Phoebe Snow, Phyllis Hyman, Jennifer Holiday and more	Brian Slawson Since his scholarship studies at the Juilliard School, Brian Slawson has continued to pioneer innovative paths in percussion. Grammy-nominated as "Best New Classical Artist," Brian has appeared on NBC’s Tonight Show, Entertainment Tonight, the CBS Morning News and NPR’s All Things Considered. Mr. Slawson's extensive discography includes eight solo releases on the Sony/CBS and Belltone labels.

Concert Series Tickets

In 2020 the Community Church of Vero Beach established the Viner Series for the Visual Arts to showcase the work of area artists. The series is named for Teryl Townsend Viner who served Community Church as a Deacon and as a member of its Board of Music and Fine Arts. A gifted painter, Teryl is listed in” Who’s Who of American Art”. In 2012 she was commissioned to create a painting for the church’s newly renovated chapel. You can view her work, Reflection, in the Narthex of Grace Chapel.

Our Lively-Fulcher Organ

"The Toffey Family Organ"

Click here to download a booklet about our amazing Lively-Fulcher Organ.

Friends of the Music and Fine Arts Ministry

Here we lift up the fact that we are community collaborators in music and the arts with a number of community organizations. We thank them for joining together in a common commitment to support all endeavors in music and the arts throughout Indian River County.

Meet the Music and Fine Arts Team

Jill Truax

Acting Director of Music and Fine Arts

Principal Organist

Rachel Carter Murphy

Resident Soprano, Community Ringers Director

Administrative Coordinator for Music