The Choir

The choir of St. Mary’s provides appropriate and inspiring music for the 9 a.m. Choral Mass on a weekly basis from September through June. Preparation for musical offerings occur during a weekly rehearsal on Thursday evening and an additional rehearsal on Sunday morning just prior to the 9 a.m. mass.

The choir also provides music for special seaonal liturgies. Much of this music is quite elaborate and accompianed by various soloists and insturmental ensembles which honor and celebrate the great feast days of the Church.

The choir is always seeking individuals who can read music and sing in harmony. If you would like to support the parish, even for just a liturgical season or a feast day, please contact Lee Milhous, organist and Choirmaster or speak with a choir member.

Lee Milhous – Organist and Choirmaster

Lee Milhous earned a BM (summa cum laude) in Church Music from Westminster Choir College, and an MM in Choral Conducting (with distinction) from Temple’s Esther Boyer College of Music. His teachers included Michael Stairs, Robert Carwithen, and Alan Harler. 

Lee has conducted liturgical and concert performances of Handel’s Messiah and Coronation Anthems, Bach’s St. John Passion and Easter Oratorios and Requiems by Fauré, Mozart and Duruflé, among many others. He is also Director of Music at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church (Yardley, PA), Choir Director at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El (Wynnewood, PA), and organist at The Evergreens Chapel (Moorestown, NJ). He also serves on the piano faculty of Ancillae Assumpta Academy (Wyncote, PA) where he teaches 40+ students weekly.

Lee is the Music Director of the Bucks County Gilbert and Sullivan Society.  His other musical theater credits as either Music Director, Conductor, or Accompanist include over 100 shows in the canon with organizations including Bucks County Playhouse, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Kelsey Theater, The Solebury School, Delaware River Theatre Collective, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, The Peddie School, Sayreville War Memorial High School, Bryn Athyn Community Players, and Bridge Players, among many others.

Lee resides in Doylestown, PA, with his older son Elliot, their Maine Coon cat Phin, and a rescue turtle named Bill.