Dr. Gabriel Statom received the Bachelor of Music Education degree with voice and piano emphasis from The University of Mississippi and the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting with organ as the principal instrument from Florida State University. Gabe completed the Doctor of Worship Studies degree from the Institute for Worship Studies, affiliated with Wheaton College and Northern Theological Seminary, both in Chicago, Illinois. Gabe has also studied at Princeton University, Westminster Choir College and the University of Oregon. Dr. Statom is Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales, FL and is Artistic Director of the Lake Wales Chorale. He is Musical Director of the Central Florida Bach Festival and directs a professional ensemble specializing in the sacred music of J.S. Bach, The Bach Parley. Under his direction, the FPC Chancel Choir was selected to perform at the 2002 Florida Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association Fall Conference in Orlando, Florida. This choir toured Scotland and England in 2003. Performances were in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Canterbury Cathedral and Westminister Hall in London. In 2005, the Lake Wales Chorale toured and concretized in Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, and Munich.

He has conducted extensively throughout the south including performances at the Spoleto Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, Carnegie Hall and with orchestras such as the Memphis Symphony and the Mississippi Symphony. Major works he has conducted with orchestra include many Haydn Masses, Handel's Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Brahms Requiem, and most recently Bach's St. Luke Passion. He has studied conducting with Robert Shaw, André Thomas, Helmuth Rilling, Jerry Jordan, John Rutter and David Wilcocks. His organ teachers have included Michael Corzine and Warren Steele. His choral arrangements have been published with the Gene Thomas Music Group and has published articles in the American Choral Directors Association Choral Journal. Gabe has been on the staff of the Berkshire Choral Festival in 2002 and 2003, serving at the Sheffield, Massachusetts and Salzburg, Austria Festivals and will work at the Canterbury, England festival in 2006. Dr. Statom is an active clinician, adjudicator and teacher.

Dr. Statom is currently chairman of the Committee on Worship for the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, is serving on a special committee for the ARP Church that is updating the Directory of Public Worship, Vice-President of the Florida Chapter of Choristers Guild and is President of the Polk Arts Alliance.

Marie Hasse, a graduate of the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor on Arts in Piano Performance, teaches piano in the Winter Haven and Haines City area. She is Head of Kevboard Studies at Polk Community College and is currently the Vice-Chair for the Bach Festival of Central Florida. A Past-President of the Florida State Music Teachers' Association, she adjudicates for FSMTA Student Events and is active in student events of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs. Ms. Hasse is serving on the Board of Directors of the American Matthay Association and lectures at the AMA"s annual festivals. Together with Dr. Carl Angelo, she edited Helen Parker Ford's From Fists to Fingers, based on the teaching principles of Tobias Matthay, with emphasis on presentation to the young beginner. Ms. Hasse performs in chamber music recitals in the area and lectures on piano pedagogy. She is the Associate Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Lake Wales since January of 2004.