Welcome Kelly Siebecke to our Music Leadership Team!

What a gift! One of Central Methodist’s 2011 highlights is the addition of Kelly Siebecke to our music leadership team, joining Pam Verner and Jerry Sommerseth. This is a church that truly loves its music--we are triply blessed.

Kelly’s long and varied music history goes back to her first piano lesson in 1967. She first learned to love playing the compositions of Beethoven, Chopin, Offenbach, and von Suppe while also adding Gershwin along with some Rogers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Lowe, and Scott Joplin to her repertoire.

As a teen growing up in Concrete, Kelly learned to play percussion and taught herself guitar and trumpet, playing all three in various junior high and high school ensembles along with being piano accompanist for the concert and swing choirs.

Going on to study music education and performance at Seattle Pacific University, Kelly broadened her musical horizons there with the SPU orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and contemporary music ministry team known as “Psalm”. It was with Psalm that Kelly knew her heart would always be in presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music.

After her years at SPU, Kelly continued with music ministry through duet work, solo concerts, studio work, touring as a singer with a Southern Gospel group, a short-term missionary to Tanzania, and as a minister of music to congregations in Washington and Arizona. She is also a songwriter/arranger registered with BMI and has composed a number of Christian and Davidic worship and praise songs.

Kelly currently teaches private piano, voice, and guitar out of her home-studio in Birdsview; plays percussion in the North Cascades Concert Band; and sings high tenor and plays guitar in the Gospel Bluegrass group The-Joyful-Noise-on-the-Skagit. Kelly loves coming to Central United Methodist Church to “play, sing, help with the choir, and worship God with a congregation of wonderful, welcoming people.”

Jerry Sommerseth at the Piano---Love that T-shirt, Jerry!!!



Pam at the keyboard

Welcome Kelly! We love singing the hymns—new and traditional--with you and Pam playing piano and electronic keyboard together. We love it when you and Pastor Marilyn sing together. We like your eclectic style---from classical to bluegrass to gospel... We love Jerry breaking into his occasional postludes---who knows what he'll play next!

All of you bring life to our lovely hymn "When In Our Music God is Glorified."  Thank you.