The Brevard Chorale
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The Brevard Chorale is the longest-running community choir in Brevard County. Established in 1964 by Dr. Thomas Whiteside, the Chorale aims to foster interest, appreciation, and participation in choral music through the performance of exciting and diverse choral repertoire. Previous performances include collaborations with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Community Chorus, and Community Band of Brevard, several European tours, and appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Brevard Chorale is open to singers of all ages who exhibit a love for choral music.
JusTin Walker, ConduCTor
Justin Walker is the conductor of the Brevard Chorale. Mr. Walker earned his Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Music Performance in Voice from the University of North Florida. His conducting experience includes performances with the University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale, University of Louisville University Chorus, University of North Florida Chamber Singers, and the UNF Osprey Men’s Chorus. Other ensembles currently under his direction include the Brevard Community Orchestra, EFSC Chamber Orchestra, and the Harbor City Harmonizers.
Jean M. BlaCk, aCCoMpanisT
Jean is a Brevard County native, born in Rockledge. She began studying piano under the tutelage of Connie Trainor, with whom she studied from the age of five through high school. During her school years, Jean sang with her family, played handbells, and began playing the flute, but piano was still her first love. By age fifteen, she was the accompanist for the Titusville High School Madrigals. Upon her graduation, she attended The Florida State University where she minored in music while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from the School of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts. In the past twenty-five years, Jean has earned a reputation for excellence as a collaborative pianist working with Brevard County public school choirs and soloists, band and orchestra students, and theatrical productions at the Cocoa Village Playhouse, Titusville Playhouse, and the Henegar Center. In 2016, she had the privilege of playing keyboard at The Dr. Philips Center in Orlando for the National Tour of Wicked. She is the principal pianist and keyboardist of the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra and works frequently with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Central Florida Winds, Orlando Light Opera, Opera del Sol, Central Florida Vocal Arts, River-
side Chamber Orchestra, and Riverside Community Chorus. She is the accompanist for the Brevard Chorale at Eastern Florida State College and serves in the worship arts ministry at Indian River City United Methodist Church as a pianist and singer. “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!”—Ludwig von Beethoven
The Brevard YouTh Chorus
The Brevard Youth Chorus has been performing since 2004 and directed by current or former Brevard County music teachers for its entire 20-year history. This treble chorus is comprised of students in grades 4-10 who are selected by audition and rehearse and perform from September through May. Visit brevardyouthchorus.org for more information about the group and upcoming performances.
BeTh Green, ConduCTor
Beth Green regularly conducts the Brevard Youth Chorus, Indialantic Chamber Singers, and Riverside Community Chorale, in addition to her position of Director of Classic Worship at First UMC Melbourne. Mrs. Green taught elementary music in private and public schools for over a decade, earning Teacher of the Year and Music Demonstration School designations. In 2024, she conducted the Elementary Music Festival Chorus for Lake/Sumter in addition to Brevard County (joining Joani and Lorie in this achievement). Beth is also a frequent soprano soloist for the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. Beth Green graduated Summa Cum Laude from the studio of Dr. Elizabeth Graham at the University of Florida with her degree in choral music education.
Joani slaWson, ConduCTor
Joani Slawson has taught music in Florida schools for over twenty-two years and is currently a music teacher at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy. She was a 2018 Semi-Finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award and is the Past-President of the Florida Elementary Music Educators Association. From 2009 to 2021 she was the musical director of the Brevard Youth Chorus. In 2011 Joani was selected as a Yale Distinguished Music Educator.
lorie WaCasTer
Lorie Wacaster hails from Mobile, Alabama, where she grew up with a passion for music. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Christopher Newport University in Virginia and is a member of the VoiceCare Network, a graduate-level program
for vocal music teaching and learning methods. Ms. Wacaster has been a member of the music faculty at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, Florida for 18 years, where she teaches Strings, Chorus, and Music Theater classes. A lifelong singer and musician, Wacaster has sung with The Mobile Opera and Kentucky Opera and has conducted choirs in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia, as well as groups in Neu Ulm and Hohenfels, Germany.
The Brevard Community Chorus
The Brevard Community Chorus was founded in 1969 by Eldon Moen as an adjunct performing organization to Eastern Florida State College’s (then called Brevard Junior College) music department. Mr. Moen, a professor of humanities at the college, saw the need in the Melbourne area for a choral program catering to the musicians in the community who were not necessarily full-time students. Starting with a small choir from the Junior College and choir members from Melbourne’s First Baptist Church, the chorus held rehearsals and performances at the First Baptist Church in Melbourne in the evenings to accommodate working hours. In December of 1969, the chorus gave its first performance, Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by Ada Cortner and Doreen Boles on organ and piano. As the Melbourne campus of EFSC grew, so did the needs of the musicians of the chorus. In 1986, the Brevard Community Chorus was added to the curriculum of the college so that participants who wanted to could earn college credit by singing. The chorus continued to grow and perform under Mr. Moen’s direction until 1987, when it moved to its current home in the King Center for the Performing Arts. After 18 years, Mr. Moen retired as conductor of the group.
In 1987, Dr. Jeff Reynolds became conductor of the chorus when he was appointed Director of Choral Activities on the Melbourne campus. His wife, Dale, served as the chorus’s accompanist. While under Reynolds’s direction, many additional fine voices joined the chorus and several European tours were added to its accomplishments. In April of 1988, the Brevard Community Chorus was one of the first groups to perform in the Maxwell C. King Center for the performing Arts when they performed Beethoven’s Mass in C Major and Choral Fantasy, accompanied by full orchestra.
The chorus’s present conductor, Dr. Robert E. Lamb, was appointed in 1998 and continues to steer the chorus in exciting directions. Under his leadership, the chorus has continued to make summer tours to Europe. The chorus celebrated the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation by touring Germany during the summer of 2017 and performing at the Berlin Choral Festival under the direction of -2-
Maestro Helmuth Rilling. During the summer of 2022, the chorus travelled to Vienna to participate in a Beethoven festival that culminated in a performance at St. Stephen’s Cathedral (where Haydn sang as a boy and where Mozart was baptized). The chorus will tour Ireland and perform at the Dublin Choral Festival in June of 2024.
The chorus looks forward to performing Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra this April. To find out more about the chorus, please visit www.brevardcommunitychorus.org. We’re always looking for new members and are happy for you to audition to sing with us this spring.
roBerT e laMB, ConduCTor
Robert E. Lamb was appointed at Eastern Florida State College in August of 1998. He is currently Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities in the Department of Performing and Visual Arts. A native of North Carolina, he attended Wake Forest University where, in addition to his music studies, he minored in French and studied at l’Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. He earned a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While in Greensboro, Lamb was assistant conductor of the Choral Society of Greensboro during three international tours of Europe and the former Soviet Union. Lamb earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His principal conducting teachers in Cincinnati were John Leman and Earl Rivers. In addition to conducting, Lamb studied musicology with Donald Foster and bruce d. mcclung. Lamb’s doctoral document, Michel-Richard de Lalande’s In convertendo Dominus: A Performance Edition with Performing Commentary, won the 2006 national ACDA Julius Herford Prize.
In addition to his work at the college, Lamb is Director of Traditional Music at Suntree United Methodist Church. There, he conducts the adult handbell choir and the Chancel Choir.
Norman MCCorveY, accompanist
Norman McCorvey is the current piano accompanist for the Brevard Community Chorus where he assists with vocal and piano parts. He attended Eastern Florida State College for his Associate in Arts as well as the University of Central Florida for his Bachelor in Music Education. He is also currently working for Brevard Public Schools as an elementary music teacher. He thoroughly enjoys working with the Brevard Community Chorus and with Dr. Lamb— “the experience of working with these wonderful musicians and conductor gives me great fulfilment and joy.”
Sopranos
Carlene Bartolotta
Nancy Bleakley
Shirley Cardin
Betty Francis
Gail Hardesty
Connie Maltby
Gretchen McGaffic
Wyelda Roberts
Mavis Sloan Poole
The Brevard Chorale
JusTin Walker, ConduCTor
Jean BlaCk, aCCoMpanisT
Altos
Jean Black
Sally Boyles
Diane Bryan
Betty Capaldo
Cathy Costello
Linda Cox
Caila Froling
Christine Greer
Melissa Holst
Carla Jones
Meredith Moeggenberg
Mary Alice Novak
Constance Ripper
Janis Wertz-Hadley
Beverly Winegar
Tenors
Liz Dupre
Bill Jones
Phil Novak
Justin Walker
Robert Yost
Basses
Bruce Baker
Jim Boyles
Douglas Kidd
Peter Maselli
Ray Michel
Jim Seidel
D. Scott Zinn
Suhanya Bhattacharyya
Izel Calderon
Keira Dockery
Leah Hayes
Dorinda Klein
The Brevard YouTh Chorus
BeTh Green, ConduCTor
lorie WaCasTer, aCCoMpanisT
Sarah Malkun
Evie Mustain
Eleanor Noethe
Genevieve Nolek
Riva Patel
Maeve Reilly
Grace Saunders
Eve Smith
Carson Stephens
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Joani slaWson, ConduCTor
lorie WaCasTer, ConduCTor
Brylee Barnett
Emma Clark
Sophie Gillin
Makayla Holwerda
Sofia Nevarez Soto
Shyla Lindheim
Meg McNabb
Angelica Norris
Jenna Robertson
Vidhi Trivedi
Tori Small
The Brevard CoMMuniTY Chorus roBerT e. laMB, ConduCTor norMan MCCorveY, aCCoMpanisT
Sopranos
Katie Arnott
Teresa Baker
Ashley Barnum
Amy Bonecutter-Leonard
Linda Boyd
Meghan Caplan
Julie Chiello
Soledad Codallo-Quinones
Heather Cooke-Joseph
Rhonda Delmater
Rebecca Edmiston
Alexis Evans
Eloise Evans
Christine Farrell
Genie Fontaine
Beth Green
Renae Hacker
Isabelle Hall-Burns
Sherry Hanson
Mary Clarke Hartman
Rebecca Hope
Emma Horchler
Kay Hughes
Margaret Jennings
Beatrice Jennings
Sherri Kenney
Kasey Knight
Debra Larcher
Lauren Larsen
Tara Lonergan
Susan McGahee
Amy Montgomery
Eva Niebergall
Deborah K. Rayl
Tee Rockwell
Laura Sayer
Susan Saylor
Tannis Smith
Ruth Smith
Amy Stephens
Nadya Thompson
Ingrid Valle
Katie Van Bibber
Kim Vu
Pat Wade
Therese C. Walden
Pamela Yu
Altos
Jean Beck
Patricia Brown
Elizabeth Chitko
Kris David
Catherine Drescher
Susie Fricker
Caila Froling
Suzanne Gardner
Mary Anne Gay
Faith Grandy
Jackie Hitzig
Toni Holcomb
Melissa Holst
Nikki Hurst
Elisa Jennings
Safia Johnson
Michelle B. Lee
Andrea Liebzeit
Courtney Lind
Leah Lund
Mary Quigg
Megan Roberts
Kimberley Sellers
Marti Smith
Vivian Smith
Pat Smyth
Amber Surber
Gretchen Syfert
Sara Thorne
Katy Wacaster
Lorie Wacaster
Susan A. Wenninger
Joyce Wilden
Rebecca Ziegler
Tenors
Diane T. Baumbach
Brenden Bonecutter-Leonard
David Cardona
Liz Dupre
David Fox
Charles Hicks
Phil Hope
Tookie Key
Mark Kirschner
Bill Larson
Norman McCorvey
Dennis McNeilly
Jeffery Njus
Christopher Panaia
Mark Rawding
Ronald Sellers
James Van Hoesen
Roger A. Wenninger
Chuck Westrip
Basses
James Boyd
Ronnie Fernandez Ramnath
Pietro Guerrieri
Joshua Klotzbach
Robert E. Lamb
Christian Larsen
Jonathan Leong
Tyler Nazario
Casey Nguyen
Richard Njus
Jacob Rawding
Jim Seidel
Lacy D. Taylor
D. Scott Zinn
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Mezzo Piano
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Mezzo Forte
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Forte
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Fortissimo
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CITY/STATE/ZIP
DONATION $
Make checks payable to “EFSC Foundation” and mail to:
EFSC Department of Music
1519 Clearlake Rd
• Cocoa, Florida
• 32922
Your contribution is 100% tax-deductible. It will be deposited to the department’s EFSC Foundation Account and a receipt of your gift will be mailed to you by the Foundation staff.
The Brevard CoMMuniTY Chorus
wishes to thank the following contributors for their generous support!
The list includes contributions received since the beginning of the current acadmic year (since August 2023). Every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of this content, but if there are mistakes, please let us know so we can correct them, and please accept our apologies.
Mezzo Piano ($25–$99)
Liz Dupre
Laura Sayer
Mezzo Forte ($100–$249)
Anonymous
Rhonda R. Delmater
Teresa Baker
Robert and Jean Beck, in memory of Gloria Pavuk, who loved to sing
Patricia Brown
Kris and Bob David
Eloise Evans
Dr. Christine Farrell
Susie Fricker
Suzanne and Michael Gardner
Melody, Violet, and Posey Glover
Debra Grayson
Toni Holcomb
Kevin Jensen
Safia Johnson
Fred and Mary Lou Justin, in memory of Gloria Schreiber
Tookie Key
Kasey Knight
Debra Larchar
William E. Larson
Boyd and Jan Lease
Michelle Lee
Andrea Liebzeit
Kay Hughes Ouwinga
Christopher Panaia & Rebecca Ziegler
Jim Seidel
Vivian and Richard Smith
The Smiths
Gretchen Adams Syfert
Nancy and Rich VanSuetendael
Kim Vu
Jenny Walker
Roger and Susan Wenninger
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Zinn
Forte ($250–$499)
Anonymous
David J. Fox
Laneri W. Hood
Phil and Rebecca Hope
Bruce and Karin Larsen
Mary and Jim Quigg
John and Megan Roberts
Marti A. Smith
Fortissimo ($500–$999)
Charles and Susan Hicks
Bob and Micki Niebanck
Gayle and Richard Njus
Pat and Tom Smyth
Fortississimo ($1,000 and over)
Amy and Brenden Bonecutter-Leonard
Barbara Jagrowski, in honor of Gloria Schreiber and B.J. Stibler
Heinz Schreiber, in honor of Gloria Schreiber
Barbara-Jean A. Stibler, M.D.
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