President –
Cathy Morrison (morcats@msn.com)
Rogue Valley Youth Choruses Administrative Assistant – Margie Grether (margiegrether@gmail.com)
Past
President – Bonnie Miller
Treasurer – Margie Grether
Corresponding
Secretary -- Barbara Kinsman
Chorus
Manager Coordinator – Carmen Adams
Discovery
Chorus Assistant – Marcia LaFond
Cantare Assistant - Jacque Schmidt
Librarian – Marilyn Reppert
Outfit
Coordinators -- Jean Libante and Carmen
Adams
Historian - Lorna McIver
YE
Assistant / Recording Secretary
/ Webmaster -- Pete Nordquist
Members
at large:
Beth Bloomquist
Carol Jackson
Mary Lynn Lucas
Sherry Strauss
Choral
Directors
Sandy Roney (msroney@prodialup.us 734-0838) is a music
educator with experience teaching kindergarten through high school in Washington State. She has also served as an
adjudicator and guest conductor in Montana.
In addition to her teaching, Sandy
was active as a church choir and handbell director
for fourteen years. She currently sings with the Rogue Valley
Chorale and teaches private music lessons specializing in voice, guitar, violin
and cello.
Gerry Flock (flock@ccountry.net 245-0203) is an experienced educator in
the Rogue Valley. After teaching music in local
schools for 21 years, he is now serving as Principal at Orchard Hill
Elementary School. Mr.
Flock is a frequent soloist with the Rogue Valley Chorale and has served as
Director of the Rogue Valley Discovery Chorus (now Children’s Chorus) for
six years.
Pam Nordquist (pamarella@charter.net 535-1504) is the founding director of the
Rogue Valley Youth Ensemble and also conducts
the Cantare Chorus (formerly the Children’s
Chorus). She enjoyed teaching elementary and middle school music for 20 years
in Kansas and Oregon public schools. She is currently
teaching choir at South Medford High School, and is the Repertoire and
Standards State Chair for Junior High and Middle School Choirs in the Oregon
American Choral Directors Association.
Doris Sjolund, Founder/Director Emerita,
started the Rogue
Valley Childrens Chorus in 1982 and retired as Music Director in
2004. She has served as a choral adjudicator, clinician, and festival director
in Louisiana, Illinois,
and Oregon.
She is an organist at Medford First United Methodist Church, a member of the Craterian Theater Board of Directors, valued member of the
Rogue Valley Chorale, and volunteer for the Jackson County Historical Society.
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An important part of our program includes the assistance of qualified adults,
in addition to the directors.