Tim Flaherty, Interim Minister of Music, served as Choirmaster at St Philip-in-the-Fields Oreland for thirty-one years before moving to St Peter’s Glenside in a merger of the two parishes in 2016.  Since arriving at St Peter’s, Tim has been choir member and past interim conductor of the senior choir, and is also a member of the handbell choir.  A graduate of Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he earned his B. Mus Ed and his M. Mus Ed in vocal music education, Tim was employed for 38 ½  years as an elementary, middle, and high vocal music teacher in the School District of Philadelphia, and was the Director of Vocal Music at Northeast High School until his retirement in 2013.  He remains actively employed as Adjunct Faculty/Education Support Professional at Temple University Boyer College of Music where he supervises and mentor’s student teachers pursuing degrees in music education.  While at Temple he sang in the Temple University Concert Choir under the baton of Robert Page and presently performs with the Dr Rollo Dilworth and the Singing Owls of Temple.  Tim is a past Assistant Director of the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale, and has been a familiar voice with the Ocean City Pops, providing the narrations for past performances of Francois Poulenc’s “”Histoire de Babar” (The Story of Babar), Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”, and the musical adaptation of “Casey at the Bat”, and “Tubby the Tuba”.

Kathleen Murphy Flaherty, Interim Minister of Music and Bell Choir Director, is in her 50th year of serving as a church musician. She is an experienced organist, pianist, choir director, choral singer, and handbell director for churches of varied denominations in the Philadelphia area. Mrs. Flaherty was Organist and Handbell Director at St. Philip-in-the-Fields for 31 years, prior to the merger with St. Peter’s Glenside.  As an organist, Kathleen has performed on the great Philadelphia organs; Girard College, Irvine Auditorium and the Kimmel Center. She has also enjoyed accompanying for choir tours to Israel, Germany and Italy, encountering an assortment of very quirky instruments.  Mrs. Flaherty holds a Bachelor of Music Education in keyboard from Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University and a Master’s Equivalency with graduate studies at Westminster Choir College, University of the Arts and Villanova University. She received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teachers in 2014, prior to her retirement from Girard Academic Music Program and currently supervises Music Education student teachers for Temple University. 

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