As the Director of Music, Tim serves as Gloria Dei's principal organist, supervises the entire music program and staff, and direct three choirs: The Chancel Choir (Gloria Dei's principal choir - Adults), The Matins Singers (Adults) and Schola Cantorum (Children Grades 3-6).
Tim is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN with a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music and Business Administration, and of Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN with a Master of Music in Church Music and Organ Performance.
Tim has extensive experience in Lutheran Church music ministry as an organist and director of adult, children, and handbell choirs. Additionally he has a wide-ranging background working with instrumentalists; implimenting and directing Summer Music Camps for Children and Youth; hosting and overseeing concert series and hymn festivals; and composed the music for the hymn, “Rise, O Church, Like Christ Arisen” (Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymn #548), the hymn Gloria Dei used as the theme hymn for its year long Centennial celebration in 2008.
In addition to his work in church music ministry, Tim is the accompanist for Magnum Chorum; an accompanist for Morningstar Music Publishers; accompanist for the Mounds Park Academy High School Choir; a member of the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists; and he is an active organ recitalist.
Contact Information: Tim Strand 651.699.1378
As the Director of Music, Tim serves as Gloria Dei's principal organist, supervises the entire music program and staff, and direct three choirs: The Chancel Choir (Gloria Dei's principal choir - Adults), The Matins Singers (Adults) and Schola Cantorum (Children Grades 3-6).
Margy has directed choirs at Gloria Dei since the early 1990's. Currently the director of Jubilate Choir (grades 7-12), she is also classroom music / band instructor in the St. Paul Public School system. In her spare time, she enjoys her husband, 3 children, gardening and trips to the lake.
My name is Linnea Bergren Hanschen and my husband and I have been members of Gloria Dei since 1982. I am the director of Alleluia! - the children's choir for children in Kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. I love the eagerness that this age child has for learning and the love they have for singing to Jesus!
My husband and I joined Gloria Dei in 2002, and I've been active in various forms of music ministry ever since! You will most often find me in the soprano section of the Chancel Choir on Sunday mornings, but I can also sometimes be seen cantoring, offering a vocal or flute solo, or participating in small vocal or instrumental ensembles. In 2006, I revived the Gloria Dei Handbell Choir, and our little group has had some big fun!
