Interim Music Director

We happily and gratefully welcome back songbird Virginia Erwin.

Virginia has again agreed to act as Interim Choir Director for UUFH.

Virginia Erwin retired with her husband, Michael, to beautiful Hendersonville in 2018. She is the mother of two and the grandmother of two.   Before retiring, Virginia taught voice and music history for over thirty years. Her original voice training, at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, prepared her for opening a private voice studio. Later, with advanced degrees in Education from Syracuse University, and in conducting from the University of Virginia, she taught Music Appreciation and Classical Voice on the faculty of Piedmont Virginia Community College.  

As a member of NATS and ACDA, she also directed several church choirs in Maryland and in Virginia. Before moving to the mountains, she accepted the position of Music Director of the Blue Ridge Chorale in Culpeper Virginia, where she remained for seven years, until her move to the NC mountains. . While in Virginia, she wrote and produced several educational musical plays for Charlottesville students.  

Since retiring, Virginia enjoys most of all the opportunity for choral and solo singing. She also gardens, walks her two huge dogs, and works at playing golf, which she thinks is much harder than singing.