Music Ministry
The music director for traditional liturgies, Jin Krista Kang, is an early music specialist who has given vibrant performances on historic keyboard instruments throughout the US and Europe. One of the most frequent guest organists and harpsichordists of early music concert venues in the State of Upper Austria and South Germany, Jin Krista has performed on the famous Silbermann organ at the Abbatiale de Marmoutier in Alsace, France; the Bruckner organ at the Alter Dom (Old Cathedral) in Linz, Austria; and the reconstructed Renaissance organ at the Treviso Museo Communale in Treviso, Italy. Ms. Kang has also led dynamic choral programs in a number of academic and parochial institutions in New York City, including the Concordia College Preparatory Division Choir in Bronxville, Rosedale Achievement Center for Girls in South Bronx, and the YWCA. She is a recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships, including second prize in organ performance at the Brunnenthal International Early Music Competition for Soloists, directed by Ton Koopman of The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Jin Krista holds degrees with honors from the Manhattan School of Music and Anton Bruckner University of Performing Arts in Linz, Austria, where she was a full scholarship recipient and received the Most Outstanding Performer Award. She has served as the choir director at the Catholic Center at NYU since 2001 and then here at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village since February 2004. She also serves as an Associate Conductor for The Children’s Aid Society Chorus.
The Choir of the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village is a music ministry dedicated to the mission of encouraging active participation in the liturgy. The choir performs weekly at the Sunday 11:30 AM Mass, as well as during Holy Week, Easter, and Christmas services and at an annual spring concert. Composed of eighteen talented and dedicated members, the choir is a mixture of amateur and professional musicians. It includes longtime parishioners as well as current NYU students. The choir’s repertoire is as diverse as its membership, ranging from traditional Latin chant and Renaissance polyphony to African-American spirituals and the twentieth century masterpieces.