Our current Music Ministry team includes:
Susanne Reul-Zastre has been at St. Luke Cedar Hill Anglican Church since May 2003. She is involved in preparing and offering the musical component for weekly Sunday and special worship services, conducts the choir, oversees the Soloists programme, and also coordinated the Choral Bursary programme. For many years she has happily volunteered her time to co-ordinate the music ministry fundraising and outreach concerts at St. Luke's. Susanne holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music History from UVic, a Master’s degree in Organ Performance from Western University, an Associateship with the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), and a Diploma in Sacred Church Music from the Catholic College for Church Music and Music Paedagogy in Regensburg (Germany). She was a registered Music Teacher in BC for many years while maintaining a very busy private music studio teaching piano, organ and theory to children and adults (beginners to ARCT level) and has accompanied community and school choirs as well as vocalists and instrumentalists at many concerts and festivals. Susanne is also a Body BluePrint certified Personal trainer, and registered with the BCRPA as both Weight Trainer, Group Fitness, Older Adult and Aquafit Instructor. Moreover, she has taken additional training to work with cancer and stroke survivors as well as persons diagnosed with MS and acquired brain injury.
Susanne is the past President of the Executive of the Victoria Chapter of the RCCO (Royal Canadian College of Organists) for the 2023-2024 season. She has been a member of the Centre's Hart Scholarship Committee for the past decade and since 1995 served in various roles on the executive (President, Past President, Newsletter Editor, Secretary, Member-at-Large). She brought her expertise to act as a venue and workshop convenor at the 2010 National RCCO convention, and on the committee for the 2012 Victoria International Organ Festival. Susanne was also involved in various volunteer capacities at the 2020 National RCCO Heaven and Earth convention in Victoria (July 6-9, 2020) which unfortunately was cancelled due to COVID-19. At the end of 2023, Susanne finished the role of official correspondent to Organ Canada and The Continuo online newsletter on behalf of the Victoria RCCO Centre after 15+ years. In addition, Susanne has adjudicated organ exams for the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival and the RCCO.
David Berry studied organ with David Ouchterlony, principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music, and David Cameron, a national president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO). A graduate of the University of Toronto with an honours BA in English Language and Literature, he has served as organist for congregations in Toronto and Victoria, on the executive of the RCCO Victoria Centre, and on the committee for the 2010 RCCO National Convention and the 2012 Victoria International Organ Festival, in addition to a 35-year career as an editor and writer. Over the same period he also worked as in interim or occasional organist at about two-dozen churches in the Victoria area. Currently he is the Organ Steward for the Pemberton Memorial Chapel at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, and in addition to his work at St Luke's as Evensong Organist, he could be heard playing services year round at St. Mark's Traditional Anglican Church before the pandemic.
Bre Bonneau is a native of Victoria and holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She performs regularly in venues around town and is the leadsinger of the Victoria blues band, Shoestring Bourbon. Bre has performed internationally, including in New York City, Boston, Nashville, and Austin and is recognized by the National Federation of Musicians, ASCAP and BMI as an accompished songwriter and artist. Her voice has been featured on television commercials as well as radio jingles in the US.