Our Team
The Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann
“Imagination, not desperation!”
Ed is Senior Pastor of Round Hill Community Church and loves to see the way that imagination and creativity can inspire people of faith to embrace challenges and dreams that bring hope to the world. Round Hill Community Church called him away from Hartford, where he worked for fourteen years in an urban congregation, and he is thrilled to see our congregation growing as a vibrant, intergenerational church.
Reading and walking are the daily practices that most nourish his spiritual life, and he has been known to indulge an exuberant love for Fantasy Football. Ed is also an artist who works primarily with pastel. Ed and Susan, his wife, are avid fans of the Minnesota Vikings, and live in the Parsonage with their canine friends, Dot (Miniature Schnauzer) and Beau (Labrador).
Leslie C. Smith, CAGO
Leslie C. Smith, serves as Director of Music and Digital Media at Round Hill Church in Greenwich, CT. She maintains a private piano studio at Greenwich Country Day School and serves as Regional Councilor of the Northeast Region of the American Guild of Organists, which includes New England, New York, the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the country of Finland and the continent of Europe.
Before coming to Greenwich, Ms. Smith [Leslie] served at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, AL. She was Artistic Director of Colla Voce, a sacred chorale. While studying for the M. Mus. at Yale, she was Director of Music and Liturgical Arts at The United Methodist Church of Westport and Weston. Leslie was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, a member of Peachtree Presbyterian Church. In 2001 she recorded a Christmas album with the Peachtree Handbell Quartet. She holds the Master in Music in Organ Performance from Yale University with a Certificate from Yale's Institute of Sacred Music, studying with Thomas Murray. She also holds Bachelor’s degree in Music for Organ Performance and Dalcroze Eurhythmics from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Todd Wilson and David Brown.
Leslie received the Henry Fusner Award for achievement in Organ Performance while at CIM and served as Assistant Director of Music and Organist at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In addition, she was Founder and Director of the Case Women’s Glee Club, a sister organization to the historic Case Men’s Glee Club. She also served as Assistant Director for “Sing Out!,” a biennial benefit concert for the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center which during her time raised over a half million dollars to help women and families in crisis.
When not performing and practicing music, she enjoys crafting (mainly crochet), cooking (mainly baking), cycling (mainly to work off the baking), and home renovations. While in Birmingham, she started a baking company called Bakesmith and served as Pastry Chef of James Beard-nominated restaurant Ollie Irene.