Music plays a crucial role in worship at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, inspiring us to enter into God’s presence and serving as a conduit for God’s Word. It influences each worshiper's state of mind, promoting self-reflection, joy, reverence, and contemplation; and it forms us into one unified body, a community that seeks God and serves God together.

St. Luke’s is blessed to have a thriving music ministry that includes an adult choir and children’s choir; weekly worship services in which the beautiful sounds of our Visser pipe organ and Bösendorfer grand piano can be heard emanating throughout the church; and a host of talented professional and amateur musicians who regularly play on Sundays and feast days.

To hear our musicians in action, please click the video below with highlights from our Christmas Eve services in 2025.

The music program at St. Luke’s is led by organist, pianist, and choirmaster Kate Weber-Petrova. Kate has been a professional church musician for over twenty years and has performed as a recitalist and collaborative musician throughout the Baltimore/DC and Milwaukee areas. An accomplished pianist and organist, Kate believes that the variety she offers as a musician brings a richness and diversity to worship that mirrors the manner in which most people listen to and connect with music today. Kate holds a B.M. in piano from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied piano with Boris Slutsky and Ann Schein, and pursued secondary studies in voice with Diedra Palmour and Steven Rainbolt. She holds a M.A. in musicology from the University of Maryland, where she served on the faculty as a lecturer for several years, teaching music history courses and seminars to undergraduate and graduate music majors. Following graduate studies and intent on building a fulfilling career as a church musician, Kate undertook years of organ studies, first with Matthew Robertson and then Donald Sutherland. Kate credits her love for music to her formative years in the studio of distinguished pianist and renowned pedagogue Emilio del Rosario, who ignited a passion for music that continues to fervently burn. She feels grateful to have found a warm and supportive community in St. Luke’s of fellow musicians and music lovers, with whom she loves to collaborate.