Pastor

Matthew Weber

Matthew comes to Grace from 12 years of service at Holy Love in Aurora, Colorado. You can get to know him through a Series of Introductory Videos he's made for Grace.

Organist &  Pianist

Boyd Hamilton

Boyd is originally from Oklahoma and now calls Colorado home with his wife and two sons.

Choir Director

Michael Hoffman

Michael is a native of Minnesota who finished his Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree from CU-Boulder in 2017.

Soprano

Alice Del Simone

Alice Del Simone, a San Francisco Bay Area native, received her B.A. in Vocal Performance and B.S. in Plant Science from the University of California, Davis, and her M.M. in Voice Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder where she is currently pursuing her D.M.A. Alice enjoys a varied performance career on both the operatic and concert stages and is particularly passionate about new works. She is also an avid music educator and voice science researcher. Alice enjoys approaching the challenges of music education with positive energy and optimism and celebrates the differences that make each voice unique. She is currently undertaking research that explores student-specific effective vocal instruction techniques. Alice is very excited to join the choir of Grace Lutheran this year and can't wait to meet you all!

Alto

Melody English

Melody spent her church childhood avoiding Sunday school so she could sing hymns in the adult service. As a teenager she spent a year in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) where she sang with the Northern Opera Company. She has a degree in Music History from Seattle Pacific University where she studied voice, oboe, and recorder. As an adult, Melody has performed with the Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and the Boulder Renaissance Consort. Melody volunteers to prepare tax returns for AARP.

Tenor

Simon Daum

Simon has been making music in the Boulder/Denver metro area since he moved here in 2018. With a degree in Music Education from Shenandoah Conservatory, he has over ten years of experience teaching a variety of subjects to students of all ages. Select musical highlights include singing choral music across France, music directing a production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, performing in a production of Next to Normal, and witnessing students’ development and passion. He is on faculty at Parlando School of Musical Arts and is currently singing with Elus Vocal Ensemble and the Boulder Chorale, in addition to Grace.

Bass

Sebastian Schmidt

Sebastian is a native of Leipzig, Germany.  Music has been part of his life since childhood. He studied the piano for twelve years and joined the children's choir of the Leipzig Opera at age eight.  As an adult, he sang in Leipzig's Gewandhaus and University Choirs. He studied physics in Germany and Scotland, earned his PhD in meteorology in 2005, and has worked at CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics since then. He also studied voice with teachers in Germany, Austria and Colorado. In Boulder, he sang with the Boulder Bach Chorale, CU Opera, and Grace, where he enjoys singing choral and solo repertoire.