St. Mary’s Abbey / Delbarton School
230 Mendham Rd. Morristown, NJ 07960 https://saintmarysabbey.org/


Responsibilities

Play approximately 40—45 30-minute services per month (Matins @ 6:30 or 7:30 AM and Vespers/Mass @ 5:00 PM)
Play for major services of the church year (Christmas Vigil, Christmas Day, Palm Sunday, Paschal Triduum, Easter Vigil, Easter Day)
Play for major feasts and holy days, including monastic professions, ordinations, monastic funerals, jubilees
First right of refusal for weddings and funerals (approx. 12 per year), responsible for securing a substitute as necessary
Oversee assisting organists, create and distribute monthly schedule for organists
Choose appropriate preludes, postludes for all services
Expand Sunday morning music program; use instrumentalists and Delbarton school boys to cantor when possible, rehearse cantors, choir, and instrumentalists
Play for all Delbarton School Masses, rehearse with Schola choir before each Mass
Assist in maintaining filing cabinets containing special Mass folders and seasonal Vespers; make corrections and update as needed, help to keep materials organized
Arrange for regular tuning and maintenance of organ and pianos
Assist in the hiring and training of new organists as necessary
Act as liaison and oversee any concerts in the Abbey Church Report to prior and church rector

Qualifications

Master’s degree (preferred) in organ and/or sacred music
Experience as a parish musician in a liturgical church
Knowledge of Roman Catholic liturgy
Skills in playing organ repertoire, hymnody, psalm accompaniment, and improvisation

Salary/Benefits

$60—70K/year, with full benefits, 403B plan
Three weeks vacation, to be scheduled in consultation with assisting
organist
Six Sunday Masses off per year
Fiss/Konzelman pipe organ III/32, Steinway grand piano
* Please submit resume and references to: SMAbbeyorganist@gmail.com *