Music at St. Andrew's

Adult Choir

Directed by Gabriel Arregui, the Adult Choir is open to any member of the parish without audition. Rehearsals are held on Thursday nights at 7:30, and the ensemble sings at the 10:00 a.m. service, as well as at special services for Holy Week and Christmas, and the annual Episcopal Community Services Festival of Lessons and Carols during Advent.  If you are interested in joining the Choir, please contact Gabriel Arregui, Music Director.

Gabriel Arregui, Organist and Director of Music

Gabriel Arregui graduated with from Loma Linda University with a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance, studying with Donald Vaughn. For his secondary emphasis in piano performance he studied with Anita Olsen. He went on to earn his Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California, studying accompanying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Brooks Smith and Jean Barr and harpsichord with Malcolm Hamilton. While at U.S.C., he won the Hans Schiff Memorial Chamber Music Scholarship, was awarded a graduate assistantship in accompanying and won the Accompanying Departmental Award for Outstanding Graduate. Following graduate study, he returned to Loma Linda University to teach 18th-century counterpoint.

Having served as Organist-Choirmaster in numerous churches, Gabriel has been organist of the Roman Catholic Church of The Immaculata on the University of San Diego campus since 1998. Remaining active in coaching and recital work, he is regularly a featured soloist and chamber musician in the Corona del Mar Baroque Festival, has appeared in recital with sopranos Julianne Baird and Rosa Lamoreaux, flutist David Shostac, trumpeter John Thiessen, and has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

While living in Pasadena, he began to pursue an acting career under the stage name Gabriel Bastian. He has several national television commercials, books on tape and many stage performances to his credit. In his leisure time, Gabriel enjoys ballroom dancing, playing duplicate bridge, knitting and crocheting, painting (oils and acrylics), and travelling to distant lands, inflicting his college French on the natives.