Music Staff

As Director of Music & Arts at St. Martin's, Mr. Tyrone Whiting (he/him) oversees all our music and arts ministries, outreach, and education. Tyrone says: "With a robed adult choir supported by four professional section leaders, a children’s choir Chorister program, and a robust series of concerts throughout the year, St. Martin’s is an incredibly musically active church, whose mission and outreach are at the heart of the music program. I am proud and grateful to all who participate and support our music ministries."

Brooke Witherite (she/her) is a board certified music therapist from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Slippery Rock University with a degree in music therapy in 2017. After college Brooke moved to El Paso, Texas where she taught preschool music and began her music therapy career, working with people of all ages and abilities. She currently works full-time as a music therapist at Saint Joseph Villa in Flourtown Pennsylvania, in addition to teaching private piano and guitar lessons. Outside of work Brooke is a passionate keyboard/pianist in a band, and a proud dog mom to her pup Winston.

Marisa Miller is a folk singer, songwriter, and mezzo-soprano hailing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who moved to the Philadelphia area in 2021. Passionate about early music, Marisa performed regularly as a featured soloist in Eastman School of Music's Bach cantata series and made her operatic debut there as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice. Her performance background is varied, singing German lieder in the Austrian Alps, Italian madrigals in Rochester, NY's Kodak Hall, and indie rock around the bars of Roxborough-Manayunk.

When St. Martin’s Church welcomed volunteer singers into the adult choir in 1981, Connie (she/her) volunteered. She is still singing, and the choir has grown from nine to 35. Her St. Martin’s journey has included choir librarian, three soup kitchens, board of Women of St. Martin’s, outreach committee, book room (now out of circulation) reorganizer and coordinator, clerk of the vestry and, her favorite, playing Peppermint Patty in St. Martin’s production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown in 1986.

Julia Finegan (she/her) was raised as a free-range Catholic homeschooler bouncing around Philadelphia, singing in church choirs and repairing guitars so that she could teach herself how to play them. She grew up singing with her gaggle of nine siblings and inherited a soft spot for sea shanties, Irish ballads, Gregorian chant, and Chris Smithers from her parents.

Tenor Aaron Scarberry (he/him) has performed as both a singer and an instrumentalist in the United States, Canada, Italy, South Korea, and China.

His operatic roles include Maximillian/Captain in the Chinese premiere of Candide with the Xi’an Symphony; Dr. Caius in Falstaff with Bronx Opera; Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Laurie in Little Women, and Gherardo in Gianni Schicchiwith Opera McGill; and Tamino in The Magic Flute, the Counsel for the Plaintiff in Trial by Jury, and Don Jose (cover) in Carmen at West Virginia University.

Described as “likable and warmhearted” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, and “expert to the point of perfection” by the Chestnut Hill Local, the Fairmount String Quartet – Rachel Segal and Leah Kyoungwoon Kim, violins; Beth Dzwil, viola; Mimi Morris Kim, cello – has been active in the Philadelphia chamber music scene since 1984. They are the Ensemble in Residence at the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philadelphia.

Gillian Booth (she/her) is a singer, voice teacher, and plant/cat/dog mom based in Conshohocken, PA. She received her Bachelor’s of Music in Voice Performance from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, and did further studies at Shenandoah University's CCM Institute. Gillian works as the Soprano Section Leader at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, and previously at Arch Street UMC and the Choir School of Delaware. Gillian loves singing in many styles and genres, including musical theatre, classical, choral, and pop.

Baritone Michael Miller is at the beginning of an exciting performing career. Michael is a recent member of the Florida Grand Opera Studio where he made his debut as Masetto in Don Giovanni. In 2018, Michael returned to the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York, where he sang the role of Lt. Audebert in Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera Silent Night, for which the New York Times reviewed his performance as "spellbinding". Michael first debuted with the Glimmerglass Festival as Thomas Putnam in Francesca Zambello’s 2016 production of The Crucible.