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Boulder Children’s Chorale Artistic Staff Board Staff

Kim

Kathy Czerny, President

Greg Herring, Treasurer

Laurel Seppala-Etra, Secretary

Susan Arends

Alexandra Chapman

Markisha Key-Hagan

Michael Moore

Jackie Stone

Eileen Krenzel Rojas Children’s Chorale Manager

Lilli Bailey-Duran Concert & Chamber Chorale Manager

Nathan Wubbena Artistic Director BoulderChildren’sChorale &DirectorofBelCanto

Dunninger Children’s Chorale VolanteDirector

Anna Robinson Children’s Chorale PrimaVoceDirector

Melody Sebald Children’s Chorale PiccoliniDirector

Matthew Sebald CollaborativePianist Children’s Chorale Volante

Margaret Schraff CollaborativePianist

Children’s Chorale Boulder Prima Voce & Piccolini

Caitlin Strickland Collaborative Pianist BoulderChildren’sChorale BelCanto

Joanna Lynden CollaborativePianist Children’s Chorale Longmont Prima Voce & Piccolini

**Nearly all expenses paid for parent chaperones

“A Patch of Light"

String Quartet from Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

Percussion by Ari Rubinstein

Piccolini

Make New Friends

Oh Music!

The Swing

Prima Voce

Canon of Hope

Everlasting Melody

Volante

I See Colors

Soloists:VivianEdwards&OliverStockton

The Rivers are Running Again

Shine

Volante & Bel Canto

Hotaru Koi

Bel Canto Concert Chorale

La barca de oro

El Noa Noa

Where the Light Begins

Controlled Burn

Boulder Children’s Chorale

A Patch of Light

Soloist:Cressa Stricklan

Al Shlosha D’varim

Soloists:Edward Crotser,ClaireGold,AnnaIverson, PenelopeOlson,Leonora AvaniSmith-Sanny

arr. Margaret Scharff

arr. Doreen Rao

Leeann Ashby

arr. Lee R. Kesselman

Mark Burrows

Rollo Dillworth

Pink Zebra

Amy Bernon

Matt and Adam Podd

arr. R ō Ogura

Abundio Martinez

arr. Ahmed Anzaldúa

arr. Marcos Garcia

Susan LaBarr

Dessa & Jocelyn Hagen

Jacob Narverud

Alan E. Naplan

Also come to enjoy a performance with BCCs Bel Canto choir!

Sunday April 28 Tickets:

“A Patch of Light"

Bel Canto – directed by Nathan Wubbena

Atticus Beard

Corinne Chenault

Edward Crotser

Lucia de Alwis

Claire Gold

Anna Iverson

Sylvie Kamark

Kalina Lambert

Margaret Luján

Penelope Olson

Jamie Pierson

Volante – directed by Kim Dunninger

Alina Beard

Linden Chenault

Allie Davis

Vivian Edwards

Ani Even

Luna Even

Ellen Hildreth

Elsa Hollenbach

Grayson Inman

Tallulah Johnson

Gabriela Keck

Sasha Kinney

Prima Voce – directed by Anna Robinson

Alyssum Abarca

Corinne Acar

Priya Arduini

Eliza Cairns

Kai Chan

Hugo Chenault

Sofia de Alwis

Alden Fitzgerald

Adi Harper

Claudia Held

Julian Inman

Olivia Jerard

C. Jaxon Kim

Sydney Laub

Charlee Malin

Leah Mao

Madeline Martin

Piccolini – directed by Melody Sebald

Mason Coppage

Leo Lopez Donovan

Sophia Emmerich

Lillian Diane Guiles

Louisa Mulchay

Windsor Nelson

Aciro Otim

Shalini Prince

Peter Reichert

Sanjay Prince

Liz Rush

Emma Schwartz

Cressa Stricklan

Milo Tromey

Leonora Avani Smith-Sanny

Amelie Valliere

Isabelle Valliere

Tyson Young

Melody Zhang

Evelyn MacQuarrie

Iris Mason

Jeffrey Moore

Tristan Nelson

AJ Rojas

Pepper Rupp

Liam Nelson

Alexandra Nicolella

Madeline Reichert

Mia Rogart

Juniper Ross

Eleanor Rupp

Aria Schultz

Asher Schultz

Anika Lucy Smith-Sanny

Oliver Stockton

Shalom Trowell

Raina Warren

Gwendolyn Liezel Karcher

Julia Selby

Liesl Stockton

Jerusalem Trowell

Cecilia Westhoff

Maya Weinstein

Irene Wildenberg

Olivia Zhang

William Rosen

Elizabeth Stech

Isaac Sternbery

Ivy Petropoulos

Jackson Stone

Charlotte Wisniewski

Jordan Woods

Corinne Austin Yeldell

Biographies

Boulder Children’s Chorale Artistic Director

Nathan Wubbena received his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011, and his Master of Music in Music Education with a Conducting Specialization at Colorado State University in 2018. He has extensive experience conducting ensembles and students of all levels; he is also the Artistic Director of the Longmont Chorale, as well as Board President and Founder of Ascent Vocals. In 2015 Nathan received the Outstanding Young Music Educator Award from the Colorado Music Educators Association. He is Chair Emeritus of the Colorado Middle All State Choir board, of which he was a founding board member. Mr. Wubbena has served as a guest clinician and conductor throughout the state of Colorado, directing Honor Choirs in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, the Western Slope, and Northeastern Colorado, as well as the Directors Choirs for Western State Colorado University and Middle School All State. He also adjudicates at ACDA festivals and Music in the Parks. It is Nathan’s firm belief that music is for everyone; he works tirelessly to make that a reality for young and old alike, and then to create an environment where music and collaboration can bring beauty and joy to all.

Caitlin Strickland holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Colorado-Boulder. During her time there she won numerous regional competitions including MTNA and the Nancy Clark Piano Competition. In 2000 she was a featured performer at the International Piano Festival in Houston, TX. The following year she was accepted as a student at L’École de Musique in Paris, and had the opportunity to study and perform at the International Piano Sessions in Prague. Ms. Strickland has extensive experience as an accompanist and has performed with Opera Colorado, Boulder Opera, Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Suzuki Strings, Arvada Center Chorale, and Resonance Women’s Chorus. She has performed both solo and collaborative recitals throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She lives in the mountains outside of Nederland with her husband and 17 year old son.

Kimberly Dunninger holds a Bachelor of Music Education with distinction from the University of Maine and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Oregon, where she conducted the Women’s Choir. Kim is an accomplished singer and teacher, having taught choral and orchestral music, K through college, for 30 years in NH, OR, ND, and CO. She retired from the Adams 12 5 Star School district in 2021. During her tenure there, her ensembles were chosen to perform at the CMEA clinic/conference and performed in Carnegie Hall twice. Kim has sung in many choirs: the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Robert Shaw Carnegie Hall choral workshops, the Durango Women’s Choir & Durango Choral Society, the Varna Music Festival in Europe, and locally: Kantorei, St. Martin Chamber Choir, the Boulder Bach Festival chorus & Seicento Baroque Ensemble.. Kim is an active member of ACDA, President of the Boulder Area Delta Zeta Alumnae and the Indian Peaks Chapter of DAR. Her choral arrangement, “America, Still Beautiful,” won 3rd place in the 2016 National NSDAR American Heritage contest.

Known for his bold performance presence and praised as a “dedicated musician”, Matthew Sebald is very active as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach. He recently graduated with a Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano from CU Boulder and is pursuing his DMA in this field starting this fall. As a collaborative pianist, Matthew has experience playing for both instrumentalists and vocalists, from beginners to professional musicians. His most recent engagement was a trip to the XVIII World Saxophone Congress in Croatia where he collaborated with Dr. Scott Sandberg (UND) in the premiere of Catherine McMichael’s Duality for tenor saxophone and piano. Matthew has also proven himself to be an accomplished soloist; some of his accolades include winner of the 2016 Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra Concerto competition and UND’s 2015 Mozart Piano Concerto competition, and runner-up for the 2017 Greater Grand Forks Concerto Competition. His experience as a pianist/harpsichordist in small and large ensembles includes the Red River Trio 2016-2017, the UND Chamber Orchestra 2017-2018, CU Boulder’s Symphony Orchestra 2020-2021, and CU Boulder’s Chamber Singers 2021.

Anna Robinson received her Bachelor’s of Music Education from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN and a Master’s Degree in Music from Colorado State University. Anna has taught elementary school general music for 14 years including 10 years in Telluride, CO. She currently teaches general music and after school choir at Padilla Elementary School in Brighton, CO. While living in Telluride, Anna sang with the Telluride Choral Society in the adult Chorale and Chamber Singers. In addition to the large ensembles, Anna performed with a quartet called “The Jeweltones” and another group called “The Renaissance Singers”. She also served as the Vocal and Music Director for the Telluride Theatre company and performed several roles in their musical productions; her favorite being “Audrey” in Little Shop of Horrors. Anna serves on the CMEA general music council and on the board of the Regional Organization of Colorado Kodaly Educators. In her spare time, Anna is somewhat of a gym rat and enjoys reading, theatre, hiking, and watching sports.

Joanna Lynden, a graduate of CU Boulder, BMusEd, is a pianist, organist, composer/arranger, choir director, and retired Boulder Valley School District music educator who grew up in the Chicago area and studied piano as a teenager at the American Conservatory of Music. She has had a long career playing organ (teachers include Carole Terry, Everett Hilty, and Elizabeth Farr) and serving as musical director for various churches wherever she has lived in her rather nomadic life: San Francisco, Seattle, southern Oregon, St. Gallen, Switzerland, and the greater Boulder area. She has been accompanist for the Rocky Mountain Chorale, and in the Ashland, Oregon area played for the Rogue Valley Children’s Chorales, Rogue Valley Opera Outreach, Camelot Musical Theater productions (Gigi, Cats, Cinderella, Secret Garden, Les Miserables) and its summer conservatory camps for youth. Joanna directed and wrote for the Boulder-based women’s a cappella group, IRIS, which produced three albums and two multi-media shows. She is currently pianist for the Lyons Community Church and for the last eight years has accompanied eurythmy and choir classes at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder. When not involved in professional activities, Joanna loves to garden, hike, spend time with family and friends, travel, create herbal medicines, and volunteer with Hospice as a member of the Boulder Threshold Singers.

Melody Sebald holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of North Dakota. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music Degree with a concentration in Kodály from Colorado State University. During her time at UND, Melody received the coveted undergraduate choral conducting scholarship and worked under the tutelage of Melanie Popejoy. Melody currently teaches elementary music to over 400 students in Jefferson County Public Schools. In 2022, she received Jeffco’s Talented Teacher Award in the category Unsung Hero. She is an active member of ACDA, NAfME, and OAKE. She likes to play board games with her husband, go on walks with her dog, and read in her spare time.

Margaret Scharff began the study of piano at age 5. She performed as a soloist with her local youth orchestra at age 11. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998, and a Master’s degree in Piano Performance in 2002. After her education, Margaret began teaching private students, as well as accompanying choirs and church services, and freelancing as a pianist. She has worked for three Unitarian Universalist churches, and is currently an accompanist at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church and Congregation Har HaShem. She has accompanied the Arvada Chorale and the Boulder Messiah Chorale. Besides studying piano, Margaret has also conducted choirs, studied organ, and collaborated in piano trios at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. She currently lives in Boulder with her husband and daughter, and loves to hike and travel.