The Reverend Martin Yost is the Rector of St. Luke's. He began his ministry at Saint Luke's in February 2018 as a long-term supply priest and was called as Rector in January 2019.
Fr Yost grew up in the Boston area and received a B.A. in English from Tufts University, where he developed a particular interest in seventeenth century English poetry as well as T. S. Eliot and Dante. It was during this time that he began attending the Church of the Advent in Boston, a leading parish since the nineteenth century of the Catholic Revival in the Episcopal Church. (The first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, the Right Reverend William Croswell Doane, who was born in Boston, was named for his father's best friend, the Rev. William Croswell, the first Rector of the Church of the Advent.) After several years in banking, Fr. Yost went to seminary at Nashotah House in Wisconsin, from which he received his M.Div. in 2002.
Fr Yost has served parishes, schools, and college chaplaincies in Wisconsin, Texas, and Rhode Island. He is on the Council of the Society of Mary, the Board of Trustees of the Society of King Charles the Martyr, and is a member of the Society of the Holy Cross.
Fr Yost grew up in the Boston area and received a B.A. in English from Tufts University, where he developed a particular interest in seventeenth century English poetry as well as T. S. Eliot and Dante. It was during this time that he began attending the Church of the Advent in Boston, a leading parish since the nineteenth century of the Catholic Revival in the Episcopal Church. (The first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, the Right Reverend William Croswell Doane, who was born in Boston, was named for his father's best friend, the Rev. William Croswell, the first Rector of the Church of the Advent.) After several years in banking, Fr. Yost went to seminary at Nashotah House in Wisconsin, from which he received his M.Div. in 2002.
Fr Yost has served parishes, schools, and college chaplaincies in Wisconsin, Texas, and Rhode Island. He is on the Council of the Society of Mary, the Board of Trustees of the Society of King Charles the Martyr, and is a member of the Society of the Holy Cross.
Alison Davy is St. Luke's organist and music director. As a teacher and conductor, Alison brings 30 years of experience instructing individual students and leading choruses of many skill levels and sizes. As a professional singer, she has appeared in opera, oratorio and recital both nationally and internationally. For her solo work in Haydn’s “The Creation”, she was hailed in the East Hampton Star for her “unflawed mix of power, range, tone, litheness, and articulation". Other singing credits include soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem in Boston with Newton Community Chorus; Mozart’s Requiem and Vespers with Putnam Chorale; Händel’s Judas Maccabaeus with Greenwich Choral Society and a world premiere recording with the City of Prague Philharmonic of Steven Lebetkin’s Six Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman. Chamber music credits include a performance with renowned flautist Eugenia Zukerman of Bach’s Ich folge dir gleichfalls, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with Manhattan’s Phoenix Ensemble and an ongoing collaboration with classical saxophonist Javier Oviedo and pianist Gene Rohrer in their trio, Riot With Three. Alison has sung at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and the White House and in numerous professional church choirs including National Presbyterian Church, Trinity Wall Street, St. Mary the Virgin at Times Square, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian and St. John’s in the Village (NYC).