Haniel Neves is named the Peter B. Knock Intern in Sacred Music, Rye Presbyterian Church, Rye, New York, for the 2025–2026 year. An incoming student in the master’s program at the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, Neves will work with Jason Charneski, the church’s director of music and organist, to gain practical experience in aspects choral rehearsal and conducting and service playing.
Neves, who hails from Spring, Texas, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, where his principal teacher was David Heller. He served various churches in San Antonio and was most recently organ scholar at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church. He was awarded first prize and the hymn playing excellence award for the undergraduate division in the 2025 William C. (“Bill”) Hall Organ Competition in San Antonio and was the winner of the 2025 Trinity Concerto Competition.
The Peter B. Knock Intern in Sacred Music at Rye Presbyterian Church is an outgrowth of the Peter B. Knock Scholarship, an award that was given from 1991 to 2016 to promising organists whose career path was leading them to work in the fields of sacred music. Recent interns include Collin Miller, Theodore Cheng, Richard Gress, and Eddie Zheng.
For information: ryepc.com.
Other recent appointments:
Victoria Shorokhova to First United Methodist Church, Montgomery, Alabama
Andrew Peters to Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana
