11 a.m. Sunday Summer Services: Please join us in the Parish Hall for Summer Services.
| 7/1/2012 “The Church Soloist” Guest Preacher: Janna Maria Fröhlich Guest Musician: Róisín Foley |
 Janna cut her teeth on music by playing and singing through the Fireside Book of Folk Songs, Mozart sonatas, and Bach preludes every day in childhood. She holds a BA in Music from Wheaton College, studied early music and musicology at New England Conservatory, and earned her MFA in Early Music from Sarah Lawrence College.  She is a degree candidate in the Music Therapy/Mental Health Counseling program at Lesley University. She is the Soloist at First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist and currently performs with Cappella Clausura and the Celtic ensemble Chroi Anam Guth (“Heart, Soul, Voice”). She has performed locally underneath the direction of Tom Zajac (Wellesley College Collegium), and with Capella Alamire, Seraphim Singers, Cecilia Society, Musica Romanza, The Stuart Highland Pipe Band, and many others. She also recently co-founded the First Church in Jamaica Plain soirée series which presents four performances a year in the Church’s historic and acoustically amazing parish hall.
 Róisín Foley is a Birth Right UU who grew up in First Church in Jamaica Plain. She is a 2012 graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she studied Growth and Culture of Cities and Film Studies. As part of Janna’s family, she has sung many times up in our organ loft and has sermonized several times at First Church. |
