She is a soprano, conductor and teacher based in Saint Louis, Missouri, who is a graduate from Cor Jesu Academy and also studied at the Southwest Missouri University and the University of Missouri.
She is a former member of the Saint Louis Chamber Orchestra. With them she recorded albums such as the 1998 A Spanish Christmas on which she featured as a soloist on “I Saw A Maiden”.
As a conductor she has led the Saint Louis Children’s Choir in “The World’s Largest Concert” in the company of the Missouri State Symphony Orchestra and hosted by the Oak Ridge Boys in Branson, Missouri, in 2005, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in March 2006. She has also led them in holiday concerts with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Teaching for well over a decade, she joined The Lab School in Kirkwood, Missouri, in 2000, is on the faculty of the Fine Arts Department of the Cor Jesu Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and also gives private musical tuition.
St. Louis Chamber Chorus recordings
The Angel Gabriel (Traditional Basque/Sabine-Baring Gould)
SLCC 04 (CD: St Louis Chamber Orchestra: A Spanish Christmas)
Arranger: Edgar Pettman
Conductor – Philip Barnes
She leads the Cor Jesu Academy Choir here at a Papal Audience in 2012…
Sources:
- CD Liner Notes: A Spanish Christmas
- http://www.missouristate.edu/music/28145.htm
- http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=10944
- http://www.thelabschool.com/teachingstaff.shtml
- http://www.corjesu.org/PDF/handbook8-9.pdf
- http://www.corjesu.org/PDF/sep08pp.pdf
- http://stlcin.missouri.org/calendar/EventDetails.cfm?EventNum=6882