Monet Davis and Rebecca Faulkner, along with some of their students, will present a Pre-Thanksgiving concert of sacred music at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Shiloh Seventh-day Adventist Church across from Tutu Fire Station.

Pianist Monet Davis began training with Alvin Lettsome at age 5, continuing until her fifth grade year at Nisky Elementary School when she began studies on the clarinet.

Davis enlisted in the Virgin Islands National Guard and joined the 66th - now the 73rd - Army Band in 1986. In 1987, she trained with her unit at the Armed Forces School of Music in Little Creek, Va., enlisting in the Army less than one year later.

She returned to the Virgin Islands in 1993, resuming her duties at New Herrnhut Moravian Church and her studies at the University of the Virgin Islands. She presently serves as accompanist for the New Herrnhut Senior Choir, Men's and Little Folks' Chorales and Women's Chorus. She has served as organist for the ordination services of three bishops and the rededication of All Saints Cathedral on Garden Street.

Davis earned her bachelor's degree in music with a concentration in woodwind studies in 2007. She studied piano under Austin Venzen, Carlynn Anderson and Lorna Young-Wright, and clarinet under LeRoy Trotman. She is listed in the 2007 issue of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

She is a substitute music teacher at Ivanna Eudora Kean High School and is acting First Sergeant, drum major and Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of Calypso Combo for the 73rd Army Band of the V.I. Army National Guard.

St. Thomas native Rebecca J. Faulkner began studying piano at age 7 under the instruction of the late Maria Smith. She continued her studies with Iona Jackson, Candace-Ann Fleming and Jo Sandra Jones James. Throughout her musical journey she has won numerous awards from the Arts Alive Music Competition.

Faulkner remained active in music throughout her studies at Oakwood University, beginning organ studies in 1998 under the tutelage of Eurydice Osterman. In 2000, she continued her studies with Dan Lawhorn, becoming the first organ student to complete a minor in organ at Oakwood University in 30 years. At the university, she served as student conductor, pianist and violinist for the Oakwood University Symphony Orchestra in Huntsville, Ala. She was a regular organist at Oakwood University Church and a substitute organist for other churches in the Huntsville community.

In 2001, Faulkner earned a bachelor's degree in dietetics with a minor in music. She passed the national exam and became a registered dietitian in 2002.

In 2007, she earned a master's in human nutrition from the University of Alabama where she was the only African-American graduate student in the on-campus human nutrition program. At the University, she enrolled in organ lessons with Organ Department Chair, Dr. Faith Freese, a respected concert organist in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States.

Presently Faulkner is employed as a dietitian in the Department of Health's Office of Nutrition Services.

"It's a Pre-Thanksgiving concert to give back and to give praise," said Vivian Faulkner.

Admission is free, but a free will offering will be collected.