Tower Hill Church Holds Veterans Concert
The Tower Hill Church Choir will present a special Veterans Concert honoring all United States military and military veterans at the Tower Hill Church on Sunday, Nov. 12 at 4 pm.
Fiona Smith Sutherland, the Director of Traditional Music at Tower Hill, heads the program which also includes volunteer choir members from the area. An outstanding addition to this year’s concert will be a presentation by a brass ensemble from the Military Academy at West Point.
This is the second year the Tower Hill Choir has presented a Veterans Day concert as part of its concert series, opening it at no charge to the public in order to enable others to show appreciation for the service of all veterans. When first presented last year, the Concert was so well received, church officials determined to make it an annual tradition. The church is located at 2555 Harding Road, Red Bank.
Sutherland, the full-time Director of Traditional Music at the Presbyterian church, supervises a broad and varied program of choral and handbell music as well as the Concert Series. A handbell expert herself, she also has begun a ministry of solo handbell ringers, bringing a musical education to many teens in the church.
The musician and director is also the Music Director of the Shrewsbury Chorale and the staff accompanist and assistant director for the Lakeside Choraliers in Montvale. During the summers of 2021 and 2023, she was honored to be selected as one of the Guest Conductors for the Ocean Grove Choral Festival.
Ms. Sutherland has worked as organist and choirmaster at many churches in all the northeastern states between Delaware and Connecticut for more than 35 years and performed for President Obama in 2012. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master of Music degrees at Westminster Choir College and looks forward to working with singers and instrumentalists for the second year in the new tradition of Veterans Concerts at Tower Hill.
There are no admission fees or advance reservations necessary for the Veterans Concert, though donations will be accepted to help defray expenses for the event.
While the complete presentation of musical works has not been released, the emphasis at the unique concert will be on patriotic music to show the Tower Hill choir’s feeling it is privileged to honor American veterans through music.
Greeters at the entrance to the concert hall will invite veterans to stop and get a name tag identifying them and well as their branch of service.
Read about some New Jersey Veterans HERE
