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Music
Director
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Tim Keyes (Music Director) is a graduate in Music Composition and Theory from The University of Notre Dame, studying with composers Paul Johnson, Ethan Haimo, and Calvin Bower. He also studied with Charles Jones, Leonard Bernstein, and Bright Sheng at the Aspen Music Festival. Tim Keyes, a New Jersey-based composer, songwriter, conductor, vocalist, producer, audio engineer, cinematographer, film editor, liturgist, and pastoral musician, is currently the Pastoral Assistant for Music and Liturgy at The Catholic Community of St. Charles Borromeo in Skillman, NJ.
An accomplished church musician, symphonic and choral director, he has composed sacred music oratorios: Resurrexi (1996), Nativitas (1999), Crucifixus (2000), Meditation on the Passion of Christ (2005), St. Patrick’s Breastplate (2006) and Requiem (2008), as well as a Psalter, In Psalmis Davidis (1997-2004). Among his many other compositions are a Violin Concerto Colorado which received its premiere by the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra in 2004, a Horn Concerto The Battle which received its premiere by the Hunterdon Symphony in 1997, a Clarinet Concerto One Fine Summer Day In America premiered at the Concert of Remembrance in 2003, a Suite for Flute Now Until Twilight featured on Keyes CD release, Now Until Twilight (2005) a cello concerto, Mighty Mississipp' (2007), a chamber work Small Town Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano (2008) a piano concerto American Coastlines (2008), a Symphony, Symphony in C-The Earth Whispers: A Song of Native North American Peoples (2010), an oboe concerto New England Tapestry (2011), a setting of Te Deum (2012), 2 feature films UNREPENTANT (2012) and PEEPERS (2013) an oratorioThe Lost Horse (2014), a Cantata Bread of Life (2015), the oratorio The Well (2016), a String Quartet County Fair (2018), the'Symphony in Eb-Alaska: Land of the Midnight Sun (2018), Symphony in G-Christus: The Ascendence of Light (2019), an oratorio, The Stone (2019), a chamber work for violin and piano The Park (2019), a work for organ, Toccata, Adagio & Fugue (2020), and the Symphony in Bb: Elegy (2023).
Tim Keyes lectures at music industry seminars and consults churches, schools and symphony orchestras about their sound systems, acoustic environments, organs, and music programs. He often serves as guest conductor for New Jersey choruses and orchestras, and is in demand as a vocalist throughout the state, currently singing regularly with the Metuchen Diocese Chamber Choir.
Tim Keyes is considered the ‘Composer in Residence’ for the Metuchen Diocese. He recently served on the committee for the Synod Topical Commission on ‘Liturgy and Worship’ for the Diocese of Metuchen and is currently serving on the board for ‘Art and Environment’ with his wife Meg for the Worship Office at the Archdiocese of Newark. ....
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Assistant
Music Director
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Kathryn has been involved with music ministry at The Catholic Community of Saint Charles Borromeo since 2015 serving as a cantor and choir member and most recently a member of the orchestra, playing the violin. In addition to this, she has been a member of the Tim Keyes Consort since 2016. She also spent two years (2021-2023) directing the Music Ministry for the Ithaca College Catholic Community.
During her time at Ithaca College, Kathryn studied voice with Dr. Rachel Schutz, Piano with Dr. Diane Birr, and Organ with Dr. Matthew Hall. She sang with the Ithaca College Chorus, Treble Chorale, Madrigals Singers, and Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Hana Cai and Dr. Sean Linfors. In addition, she served as the Alto I section leader for the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, based in Ithaca, New York, directed by Dr. Baruch Whitehead. As a member of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, she performed at Carnegie Hall (2021), alongside the Fisk Jubilee Singers with their director Dr Paul Kwami.
Additionally, Kathryn is an alumni of a professional music fraternity, Mu Phi Epsilon, Lambda chapter, and has served in the roles of Historian, Vice President, and Pledge Mentor. She has spent time teaching private music lessons on voice, piano, and trumpet, and served as the director of performing arts and music teacher at Eagles Landing Day Camp in New Brunswick, NJ from 2020-2023.
As a composer, Kathryn first studied composition with Tim Keyes and later continued her studies with Dr Jorge Grossman at Ithaca College. As a member of the Tim Keyes Consort, Kathryn has had the opportunity to compose multiple pieces that the consort has performed, including Storm at Sea (2018) and Parva Lux (2019). At Ithaca College Kathryn composed chamber pieces for performance, most notably Flower in the Crannied Wall (2019) for Soprano Voice and Piano, Beloved (2020) for two violins, and Be Still (2022) for four treb
