Sunday Serenades is the sibling vocal trio of Gillian, Quenton, and Rhiannon Hurst. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the three found themselves living under the same roof for the first time in their adult lives. At a time when in-person singing was paused and many mourned the loss of musical connection, they combined their collective compulsion to turn everything into a song with the cherished sibling bonding activity of learning a cappella choral music. Over the course of nine months, they recorded 20 + pieces and gifted them to the First Congregational Church of Rockport. Since Gillian took up the mantle as their fearless leader and arranger, their repertoire ranges from medieval to modern day (emphasis on the medieval). This New Year’s Eve, they will reprise selections from their oeuvre which can be found on YouTube and Instagram.

Gillian Hurst is an award-winning vocalist, multidisciplinary artist, and educator who performs internationally, specializing in early music and extended techniques, and is completing a PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol focused on women’s sensory experiences (especially of music and visual art), bringing history into contemporary communities through scholarship, teaching, and performance.

Quenton Hurst is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews researching novel mechanisms of cancer-drug related cardiac toxicity, is the author of multiple peer-reviewed publications, serves as an early-career board member of the Scottish Cardiovascular Forum, and balances his scientific pursuits with passions as a professional church bell change ringer and dedicated mountaineering enthusiast.

Rhiannon Hurst is an award-winning Jazz vocalist who performs across New England with big bands and her own combos, has been featured internationally at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, and is the inaugural 4+1 BA/MM student between Holy Cross and the New England Conservatory, where her work centers on amplifying the voices of women and nonbinary individuals in Jazz.