RVUUF’s Director of Music, Julie Crooks, brings a wide variety of musical styles to Sunday morning services, and presents multiple Music Services throughout the year on a variety of topics that showcase both the choir and guest musicians.The Chancel Choir performs at services twice a month, accompanied by Jen Marie Davidson. During her solo time at the piano, Jen Marie shares contemporary, jazz and musical theater selections. At other services, our long time pianist Jane Manning plays classical piano repertoire and traditional hymn arrangements for piano.

The Chancel Choir rehearses on Wednesdays, 6-7:30pm. All voices welcome, no auditions necessary, and lower voices are especially encouraged!

For more information regarding the Chancel Choir or the Music Program at RVUUF, please contact our Music Director, Ms. Crooks.

About our Music Director

Julie Crooks, our Director of Music, is a fairly recent newcomer to Oregon. She comes from Southern California where she sang with a number of choral organizations including the Selah Gospel Choir, Vox Femina, Los Robles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Master Chorale on occasion. Before moving to Oregon to join her daughter, Julie led the search for the new Music Director at Neighborhood UU Church in Pasadena, CA, and conducted the choir at Chalice Unitarian (then CVUUF) in Thousand Oaks, CA for almost 15 years. During this time, Julie also contributed to the UU Musicians Network (now Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries) as a clinician at their annual conferences, and served on the UUMN Board.

About our Pianists

Jen Marie Davidson has lived in southern Oregon since 2017 with her husband Andrew. She has a private music studio where she teaches piano and coaches voice, and also works in musical theatre around the valley.

On Sundays when the choir isn’t performing, we enjoy the music of Jane Manning, who has who has been the pianist at RVUUF since 1998.