Sunday Services Music

The mission of the music programs at UUFSD is to support and enhance the fellowship by integrating a variety of musical experiences in the community

Music is an important part of our Sunday service, with plenty of singing by the congregation and our choir. A typical service includes a prelude, two congregational songs, music for meditation, and a postlude. Talented vocal and instrumental soloists frequently perform at our services, especially on non-choir Sundays.

Christine Lehman, Music Director

Christine Lehman has directed choirs for the Encinitas Union School District and San Diego North Coast Singers, and helped to build the North Coast Singers program when she served as Assistant Artistic Director. Chris has performed throughout San Diego as a soprano soloist, and for more than 10 years has been on staff as soloist and soprano section leader with both the La Jolla Symphony Chorus and the Congregational Church of La Jolla. She has also been employed as a professional accompanist, and currently teaches voice and piano in her home studio. Chris holds a post graduate certification in Kodaly Music Education, and also has a Master of Social Work degree. She formerly worked with children and families as a clinical social worker. Chris has two sons, ages 14 and 8. She conducts choir rehearsal. Newcomers are always welcome.

Molly Low, Music Director Emerita

Molly Low was our Choir Director from 1992 to 2002.

Monique Kunewalder, Accompanist

Born in Belguim, raised in Mexico City, pianist Monique Kunewalder began music lessons. To further her musical educaiton, Monique's family sent her to a Connecticut boarding school. With the help of two Austrian piano teachers, Monique won several east coast competitions and played with Arthur Fiedler and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra at age 12. Today Monique enjoys playing chamber music, helping young performers find opportunities to concertize, doing interpretative work in languages, and generally being involved with the world of the performing arts. Along with UUFSD's regular pianist, Lynne Talley, Monique has won several local competitions over the years.

Jeanne Saier, Accompanist

Jeanne Saier, pianist, comes from a large musical family. She cannot remember a time when she has not accompanied instruments or played chamber music. Jeanne holds a teaching diploma from the Royal College of Music in London and a Bachelors Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has served as the lead accompanist for the San Diego North Coast Singers since its inception. An active violinist as well as pianist, Jeanne is a long time member of the La Jolla Symphony and is a founding member of both the Lyric String Quartet and the Allouette Piano Trio.

Lynn Talley, Accompanist

Lynne is a professor of physical oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD). She has a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Elizabeth Lasley and Arthus Dann, and a Bachelor of Arts in physics from Oberlin College. She studied piano performance with Carl Seeman at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg,Germany, for a year following Oberlin. She also has a PhD in physical oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. While in the MIT/WHOI graduate program, she studied piano with Beatrice Erdeley, from the New England Conservatory of Music. While in San Diego, she studied for a few years with Pam Madsen and Karen Follingstad (SDSU).