M U LT I - I N ST RU M E N TA L I ST Erin Doyle uses her talent for a higher cause Story by RAVEN JORDAN | Photography by YUVIE STYLES
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t 27, Erin Doyle already leads a whole congergation. A Kansas transplant, she has spent the last eight years in Dallas — three of them in Lake Highlands — after moving here for college. Last year, she became music director for Saint Michael the Archangel Church in Garland. She plays the organ at two masses every week, directs the choir, plans all the music for services, weddings and funerals. Anything music related, that’s her job.
At 5 years old, Doyle was already playing piano, thanks to her parents who enrolled her in lessons. She wasn’t completely sold on playing instruments until grade school when she was drawn to a new instrument. It was flute.
PATH IN MUSIC Though piano wasn’t something she enjoyed at first, she soon grew to embrace both that and flute once she was old enough to join the school band. “It was like fifth grade when I could
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start band, and I started playing the flute,” she says. “And I just learned it a lot faster than the other kids at school. That’s when it was like, ‘OK, I might be good at music.’” In the past year, she’s added a few more instruments to her roster, including the organ, which she plays for church. She also sings and dabbles in woodwind instruments, like clarinet and saxophone. “That’s pretty much it,” she says. “I started learning electric bass during the pandemic, so I’m not, like, good
