Clergy and Staff
Rector - The Rev. Stephen O. Voysey
Stephen Voysey began serving St. Peter's Episcopal Church as Rector (Pastor) on December 1st, 2006. He comes to St. Peter's following over ten years of ministry as rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Mount Kisco (Westchester County), New York and a total of twenty-nine years of parish ministry experience. His wife, Amanda, is Patient Advocate at Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. The Voyseys reside at St. Peter's rectory in Weston.A native of Winnetka, Illinois, Stephen graduated from New Trier Township High School in 1968, completed a Bachelor's Degree cum laude at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's Degree in American Studies at Rutgers University. He received the Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was ordained in 1977.
He strives to encourage the development and nurturing of a multi-generational Christian community which makes space for a wide range of perspectives within the Christian vision. He enjoys coordinating and taking part in educational program life for all ages and values a strong church music program.His hobbies include golf, reading, bicycling, and railroadiana.
To contact Pastor Voysey:
Monday— Thursday mornings—Church Office
At other times - Rectory Office, 781-899-3071
By email: sovoysey@comcast.net
Assistant Rector - The Rev. Hall Kirkham
Originally from the Cleveland area, Hall graduated from Amherst College and completed an M.Sc. at the University of Edinburgh and an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. For eleven years, Hall was Investment Consultant / Managing Director at Cambridge Associates. He provided investment planning, implementation and monitoring to endowed non-profits and engaged in marketing for new business. He entered theological study at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, in the fall of 2005 and received the M.Div. on May 15, 2008. 
To contact Assistant Pastor Hall Kirkham:
Monday— Thursday mornings—Church Office
At other times - 617-354-1741
By email: hkirkham@stpetersweston.org
The Rev. Hall Kirkham's Ordination at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston January 10, 2009 and his first Holy Communion Service at St. Peter's as Celebrant January 11, 2009. Congratulations to Hall and St. Peter's!
Click here to read the Sermon preached by The Rev. Hall Kirkham on January 11, 2009 during his first service as Celebrant of Holy Communion at St. Peter’s Church following his ordination at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on January 10, 2009
Music Director- Andrew Shenton
Andrew Shenton was born in England. His first professional music training was at The Royal College of Music in London, where he studied under a scholarship from The Royal College of Organists. While at the RCM he read for a B.Mus. degree at London University and was an organ scholar at St. Paul’s Cathedral. After graduating he was appointed Director of Music at St. Matthew’s Church in Northampton and Lecturer in the Humanities at Leicester University. In 1991 Andrew Shenton moved to the US to study for a Master’s degree at the Institute for Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts at Yale University and then for a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard University. As a student at the ISM he prepared for a ministry involved with the arts (with music as a primary focus), as he is interested in all aspects of spirituality and the arts. This is reflected in his Master’s thesis, which concerns the renaissance of sacred art in post-war Britain, and in his doctoral dissertation, which is a musico-linguistic study of the twentieth-century French mystic composer Olivier Messiaen.
Dr. Shenton has a Master’s degree in organ performance from Yale, and holds the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists. Recently he has given recitals in such venues as King’s College, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York debut), and Washington National Cathedral. He has toured extensively in Europe and the US as a conductor, recitalist and clinician, and his two solo organ recordings have received international acclaim.
In addition to diplomas in both piano and organ Dr. Shenton holds the Choir Training diploma of the Royal College of Organists. He has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including a Harvard Merit Fellowship, and Harvard’s Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Throughout his studies he has been particularly concerned with issues of historically informed performance practice. In addition, he has made an extensive study of voice production and vocal technique, and frequently acts as a repetiteur, coach and accompanist for singers. He has pioneered contemporary music in a variety of styles and has given more than forty world premieres by composers such as Geoffrey Burgon, Joe Utterback and John Tavener. His teaching specialties include sacred music, performance practice, twentieth-century music, Olivier Messiaen and Arvo Pärt.
At Boston University, Dr. Shenton holds appointments in the School of Theology, School of Music (College of Fine Arts) and CAS/GRS. He is the James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music, Director of the Master of Sacred Music program, Director of the Boston University Messiaen Project [BUMP] and editor of www.oliviermesiaen.net.
To contact Andrew Shenton:
Church Office -- 781-891-3200
www.andrewshenton.com
By email: ashenton@stpetersweston.org
Junior Choir Director - Kristen Dirmeier
Kristen Dirmeier, Junior Choir Director, recently completed both her Masters in Horn Performance and a Graduate Diploma with a Music-in-Education Concentration at the New England Conservatory. She did her undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music, where she received a Bachelors in Horn Performance and Music Theory, as well as the school's prestigious Performer's Certificate. Now she freelances in the Boston area, plays regularly with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Plymouth Philharmonic and Symphony by the Sea, and teaches horn in the Milton public schools. As a chorister she was an integral part of the Girls' Choir at St. Mark's Church in Mt. Kisco, New York, and took part in programs through the Royal School of Church Music.
To contact Kristen Dirmeier:
Church Office - 781-891-3200
At other times: 617-861-7819
By email: kdirmeier@stpetersweston.org
Church Secretary - Mercer Riis
Mercer has been a member of St. Peter's for thirty years and the secretary for ten years. A former teacher, she has a Master Degree in Elementary Education. She is in the office Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 AM - 5 PM (9 AM - 3 PM during July and August).
To contact Mercer Riis:
Church Office -- 781-891-3200
By email: mmriis@yahoo.com
office@stpetersweston.org