Shirley (she / her) assisted in the Metropolitan Opera House studios and has performed regularly in New York, as well as in Europe and Israel.

Shirley is an avid chamber music player and New York native who now calls Hendersonville home. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she was the first-time recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Award for excellence in musical performance. She studied graduate-level piano accompaniment at the Manhattan School of Music. She assisted in the Metropolitan Opera House studios and has performed regularly in New York, as well as in Europe and Israel.

Shirley is a member of ACMA (Association of Classical Musicians and Artists), Sing for Hope, and ACMP (Association of Chamber Music Players). She is also a professional member of AAPF, the Asheville Area Piano Forum. She is the founder of several chamber music ensembles.

Services

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  • UU of Hendersonville Finding Joy in Times of Grief

    Finding Joy in Times of Grief

    July 26, 2026·Joff Masukawa
    From grief to joy though the power of Love.
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    Living Black Art

    July 12, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Our Black community, and African American art, deserve to be celebrated here in the Carolinas.
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    Our Brains as We Go Through Life

    June 21, 2026
    Our brains are incredibly elastic!
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    Flourishing Together

    June 7, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Love, at the center of our faith, creates relationship.
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    Your Vibratory Rate Can Shift Global Consciousness

    May 24, 2026·Rev. DeBorah Ogiste
    Our vibes in the world
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    Enter The Silence

    April 26, 2026·Dr. Marc Mullinax
    Sermon by Dr. Marc Mullinax
  • The Poetry of Possibility

    The Poetry of Possibility

    April 12, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    April is poetry month.
  • The Joy of Deep Attention

    The Joy of Deep Attention

    March 29, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    A small moment can be just long enough to fall in love with life all over again.
  • Transcending Mystery and Wonder 3 8

    Transcending Mystery and Wonder

    March 8, 2026·Matt Farris
    Rather than claiming certainty about ultimate truths, Unitarian Universalism invites us to stand in awe of life’s depth and complexity, to approach existence with curiosity instead of rigid answers.
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    Putting Love Into Action

    March 1, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    With the theme “Ways to Put Love into Action,” the World Café becomes a lived expression of UU theology—inviting participants to practice love through presence, curiosity, and connection, and to carry that love outward into the wider world.
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    Expanding Beloved Community

    February 8, 2026·Melinda Lowrance
    Recommit to antiracism work as we learn about the ongoing needs of Hendersonville's Black community with City Council member Melinda Lowrance
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    Resistance & Resilience

    February 1, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    "Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it." — Martin Luther King Jr.
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    The Art That Resists

    January 25, 2026·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Artists have shown us how to preserve our humanity in the face of persecution, protest injustice, and re-imagine new realities and new truths.
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    Living Our Values – Challenges and Advantages

    January 11, 2026·Dr. Beverly Cree
    We will consider how our choices, behaviors, and our daily actions, are aligned with personal values.
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    Living the Light of Kwanzaa Throughout the Year

    December 28, 2025·Rev. DeBorah Ogiste
    It is important that our energies are in alignment to facilitate a powerful transformative year.
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    Choosing the Light

    December 14, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    During the Hanukkah Festival of Lights each year, we're invited to nurture the flame of hope and resilience in our homes and in our hearts.
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    Don’t Sleep Through the Awakening!

    November 16, 2025·Rev. Susan Moseley
    When democracy is crumbling, let us stay both woke and awake. We can combine outward action for justice with inner spiritual clarity.
  • Cultivating Compassion

    Cultivating Compassion

    November 2, 2025·Rev. Bob Renjilian
    Let's grow compassion and change ourselves and everything.
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    Ever in our Midst

    October 26, 2025·Rev. Lisa Romantum Schwartz
    In this season of growing darkness we'll honor our dearly departed ancestors, and express gratitude for the ways their lives still shine.
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    Dog Is My Copilot

    October 5, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    In honor of St. Francis, we will hold our annual pet blessing service
  • Little Moments

    Little Moments

    September 21, 2025·Rev. Phillip Thomason
    If we stop and listen carefully to what we’ve heard, felt or seen we have an opportunity grow into the people we’re meant to become.
  • UNIVERSALISM 8 31

    Universalism in the 21st Century

    August 31, 2025·Rev. Michael Carter
    I want to stress that Universalism speaks with a particular eloquence to the challenge of our times.
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    Human Beings vs. AI

    August 17, 2025·Rev. Michael Carter
    A seven-year-old played chess against an AI Robot, programed to win at all costs. Most humans have a sense of morality. The AI did not. Let's explore.
  • Love your Enemy.Within

    Love your Enemy … Within!!

    July 27, 2025·Dr. Marc Mullinax
    We'll discuss the hard, but rewarding road to loving the enemy we've been harboring within.
  • Service cover toxic forgiveness

    Toxic Forgiveness

    July 13, 2025·Rev. Michael Carter
    Learning to forgive is the gift that keeps on giving, not only for the one needing forgiveness, but for the forgiver as well.
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    How You Do One Thing is How You Do Everything

    June 29, 2025·Ronnie Pepper
    We are influenced by how we are conditioned.
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    Come Sing a Song With Me

    June 22, 2025·Janey Ryan
    Inspirational hymn singing.
  • Lessons From the Happy Land

    June 8, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    To create meaningful change, a new constructed theology is needed—one that derives its authority from natural sources rather than supernatural ones.
  • Such a Cloud of Witnesses

    May 25, 2025·Rev. Lisa Romantum Schwartz
    Peace is not a natural human state, it is a human construct – and so is war.
  • Women Who Fly

    Women Who Fly

    May 11, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Celebrate the indomitable feminine spirit that wants to escape earthly bonds of oppression and soar to her fullest potential.
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    Still I Rise

    April 20, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Renew trust in our UU religious values, which give life in the face of death
  • UUs and Religious Language, Part 1

    April 6, 2025·Rev. Michael Carter
    During this season of rebirth and Lent, perhaps we need to revisit the religious language of the season and to explore what language triggers us.
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    Telling our Stories

    March 23, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Through the telling of our personal stories, our faith community becomes fertile ground for the emergence of radical, transformative love.
  • Growing Together

    March 9, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    We will celebrate the history of our Fellowship and the promises that we make to our community and to each other.
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    Surfing the Interconnected Web

    February 23, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    We will explore the theological origins of the UU 7th principle that celebrates the interconnected web of existence.
  • Truth and Lies FB

    Truth and Lies About Love

    February 9, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Join us on this weekend before Valentine's Day to explore what this love is, and what it isn't.
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    A Holy Alchemy

    January 26, 2025·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    The transforming power of love shows us how to become the resistance without losing our sacred humanity.
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    Formed, and Transformed by Hope

    January 12, 2025·Dr. Marc Mullinax
    Hope for the future must begin with an entangling and transforming sense of kinship between human beings and the beings of the Earth.
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    The Miracle of Hanukkah

    December 29, 2024·The UUFH Worship Team
    Readers Theater: As we turn from waiting to new hope, let us nurture new love that is being born.
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    Christmas Eve: Love Is Born

    December 24, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    As we turn from waiting to new hope, let us nurture new love that is being born.
  • Three Gifts of Yuletide

    Three Gifts of Yuletide

    December 22, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Let the season of Yule do its work. Bring your holly and ivy and celebrate the light returning to the earth.
  • Dare to Dream

    Dare to Dream

    December 8, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    The darkest time of the year is a perfect time for dreaming.
  • Tending Our Universalist Roots

    November 17, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Honoring the tenacity of our Universalist forebears
  • Roots

    Roots Hold Me Close

    November 3, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Roots anchor us during the storms of life
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    Whatever Happened to Truth?

    October 20, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    How can we ground ourselves in the truth, even know what it is, amid the chaos and destructiveness of election politics?
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    Reimagining Climate Justice

    September 29, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Let's move past extraction to usher in a new era with love and justice at the center of our climate actions.
  • Water Communion

    Streams That Meet and Merge

    September 8, 2024·Rev. George Grimm-Howell
    Water is life, and waters that flow together represent our common life
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    The Divine Pronouns

    August 25, 2024·Dr. Marc Mullinax
    Getting beyond a personal idea of God. Dropping the idea of a personal God changes every everything.
  • I/We No Longer Listen !

    August 11, 2024·Rev. Phillip Thomason
    Winston Churchill's words should ring clear as a bell: “I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do… Behavior never lies”