Music Director Susanne Reul-Zastre (BMus, MMus, ARCCO) was at St. Luke Cedar Hill Anglican Church from May 2003 to July 2025. She was involved in preparing and offering the musical component for weekly Sunday and special worship services, conducting the choir, overseeing the Soloists programme, and coordinating the Choral Bursary programme. For many years, she 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 the past President of the Executive of the Victoria Chapter of the RCCO (Royal Canadian College of Organists) for the 2025-2026 season and was proud to be at the helm of one of Canada's most active Centre during 2024-2025. Susanne retired as a member of the Victoria Centre's Hart Scholarship Committee in 2025 after many years of service, and since 1995 has served in various roles on the executive (President, Past President, Newsletter Editor, Secretary, Member-at-Large, Correspondent with Organ Canada). 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 was cancelled due to COVID-19. In addition, Susanne has adjudicated organ exams for the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival and the RCCO.
In her other career, Susanne is a Body BluePrint certified Personal Trainer, and registered with the BCRPA as 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, acquired brain injury, and Osteoporosis. She has also completed a certificate to teach fall prevention to older adults.
From 2003 to 2020, David Berry was the Evensong Organist at St. Luke's. He 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.
Prior to 2020, Bre Levere Bonneau was the Evensong Cantor at St. Luke's. Bre is a native of Victoria and holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She has performed in venues around town and was the lead singer 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 accomplished songwriter and artist. Her voice has been featured on television commercials as well as radio jingles in the US.
Organists and Choir Directors 1940 - 2003:
1994–2003 Nicholas Fairbank, MA, MUS, ARCCO, ARCT
1991–1994 Christopher Morash, BMUS
1991 Ursula Thomas (interim)
1974–1991 Dr. Ian Bradley, DMUS
1965–1974 Hilda King, ARCT, AMUS, LRSM (Organist), Dr. Kenneth King (Choirmaster)
1964–1965 Timothy Vernon
1964 Herman Bergink
1940–1964 Eric Edwards, LRSM, ARCT