How do you use music? People use music for all sorts of reasons. To remember, to forget; to be in the moment, or to lose yourself.

I’m very lucky to be able to express how I feel through my music practice as an organist and a musician, sometimes with the added benefit of fellow musicians and soloists or en masse in the form of a choir. Being a Music Director gives you the added responsibility of not just expressing your feelings but using music to enhance the emotions of your audience, the occasion, the purpose and the mood of the community and your colleagues in music.

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‘Instruments of Reflection’ is the music program for the Lenten Season at St Peter’s Catholic Church, Toorak in Melbourne. Lent is the traditional period of preparation for Easter observed in the Western Church during the 40 days before Easter. It starts next week on Ash Wednesday, which falls in 2020 falls on February 27.

For each the five Sundays of March, with the help of a local instrumental soloist and St Peter’s Choir during communion, a work by the English composer of sacred music, Margaret Rizza (b....