We at Bethesda Presbyterian Church are committed to encouraging anyone with a musical passion to come forth and offer their gifts. There is always room for participation in our Chancel Choir!

Our music here at Bethesda Presbyterian is not about performance. It is about offering up our gifts to God. The joy among our Choir is palpable - and the combination of their love for music and sharing it with each other helps us make Worship more meaningful for us all!

Five years ago, our 1961 Moller organ was renovated and rebuilt over a year’s time by the Di Gennaro-Hart Organ Co.- which designed the organ at the National Presbyterian Church in DC.

Please consider whether you would like to be part of this valuable ministry and community. You can reach me at vickigau@starpower.net. Or you could attend one of our services and stop by after the postlude to say hello and share your interest. I look forward to meeting you!

- Warmly , Victoria Gau

Victoria Gau ~ Director of Music & Organist

Our Chancel Choir, under the direction of Vicki Gau, meets Sunday mornings 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the choir room for rehearsals before our Worship service.

Victoria (Vicki) Gau has been a fixture in the DC music community as well as Bethesda Presbyterian Church for three decades, when she co-founded The Other Opera Company. In more recent years, she has served as Associate Conductor at National Philharmonic - and today serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Capital City Symphony and Music Director of Cantate Chamber Singers and Concert Choir.

Vicki knows Worship: the ebb and the flow. Her father, the late Rev. Ray Gau, served as a Presbyterian pastor on the cutting edge of dismantling racism in the ‘70s & ‘80s in the South.

Many of us know Vicki as well as the mother of two young adult daughters - and Dan as her husband and their father.