RVUUF’s Music Director, Julie Crooks, brings a variety of music to Sunday morning services, beginning with gathering music at 10:25am. The Chancel Choir performs twice a month, accompanied by Jen Marie Davidson.

The Chancel Choir rehearses on Wednesdays, 6-7:30pm All voices welcome, and tenors and basses 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 Music Director, 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 Choral and the Los Angeles Master Chorale on occasion. Before moving to Oregon to join her daughter, Julie 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 Musician’s Network (now Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries) as a clinician at their annual conferences, and 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. Andrew and Jen Marie have two daughters and a Heeler Lab mix named Goose!

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.