The Asbury Park Press recently reported that the parish has 17 children learning.

"We hope to attract new members, and because we believe so firmly in the value of what music does to transform lives, we believe it will expand and enrich their musical horizons," Director of Music Diane Caruso, a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, told the newspaper.

The program combines free piano lessons and help with homework. Choristers get inexpensive keyboards to use for practice at home. Caruso told the newspaper she would like to replace the keyboard someday with good-quality digital pianos. She'd also like to expand the homework help into a full tutoring and college mentoring program.

Caruso told the paper that she based Trinity's effort on the nationally recognized model developed by Darryl Roland at St. John Episcopal Cathedral in Wilmington, Delaware.

The choristers have sung at Trinity Church on Wall Street in Manhattan, and sang in Baltimore last spring with the Maryland State Boy Choir and the Choir of St. Bartholomew's. They also visited St. John's Cathedral in Wilmington, and have performed at Asbury Park's Kwanzaa celebration.

"As a parent, I'm telling you, this program has everything," Trena Parks Bradley told the newspaper. She drives her daughter and grandson (Davia Echols, 11, and Cameron Height, 10) from Freehold, about 20 miles away, and she said the piano and voice lessons make the drive well worth it.