Kip Coerper moved to Skaneateles in 2010. He sings in the choir and occasionally plays the organ for St. James' Church, where his wife, Becky, is Rector. He is part-time employed as assistant construction supervisor at Syracuse Habitat for Humanity. He is a teacher and Board member of the LPM Program (Leadership Program for Musicians in Small Churches) in Central New York.

After graduating from the College of Wooster in Ohio with a Bachelor of Music degree, (majoring in organ and choral conducting), he spent three years developing a music program at Suffield Academy in Connecticut and as organist at a Baptist Church. Later he taught for 16 years at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, SC where he conducted four choral groups and helped coordinate the choral program for 350 singers. While there, he was also organist/choirmaster of an Anglo-Catholic Parish in Charleston. During these years he studied choral techniques and voice training at Westminster College, The Hartt School of Music, and Catholic University of America.

Community choral groups have always been vitally important to Kip, having directed or sung in groups in every community where he has lived. He has sung as soloist in Faure's Requiem, Stainer's Crucifixion, and aria's from Handel's Messiah. And he has conducted major choral works including, Vivaldi's Gloria, Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Rutter's Gloria. Kip believes passionately that anyone who desires to sing can be taught to do so competently.