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ChoralNet Staff and Volunteers
Staff
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Martin Knowles
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Martin Knowles, manager
Martin Knowles shares the distinction of being part of ChoralNet's Canadian
contingent, though his position as Director of Product Development at
Lucidoc in Seattle ensures that he spends more time waiting in lines at the
border than he'd prefer. He's responsible for answering last-minute
questions, performing late-night technical firefighting, slinging source
code, and taking care of the behind-the-scenes maintenance that ensures that
ChoralNet stays on the air. When he's not in front of his computer, he can
be found doing architectural photography, dancing lindy hop, and singing
baritone in the award-winning Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Choir in
Vancouver, BC.
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Volunteers
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Maidie Cohen, Choralist moderator
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Brigid Coult
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Brigid Coult, moderator
Brigid Coult, originally from the UK, is one of the Canadians on the
ChoralNet Board. She has been involved in choral music all her life, and is
currently Director of Music at St Mary's Anglican Church, Kerrisdale in
Vancouver, BC, and Conductor of Richmond Chorus, a 70-voice community choir.
She's a past-President of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, and
a long-serving member of the BC Choral Federation, with which she is now on
staff.
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Carol Hague |
Carol Hague, Choralist/ChoralTalk moderator coordinator
Carol Millar Hague, a singer and keyboardist, received her L. Mus in Voice Performance in 1975 at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. For 10 years she sang professionally in Montréal. In 1988, she moved to Vankleek Hill, Ontario, where she teaches singing, piano and theory/harmony. She is the Registrar/Secretary for the Vankleek Hill Music Festival Committee and plays Sunday services at the Circles of Faith Community Church. She has co-directed Amaryllis Women’s Choir since its inception in 1995. In 1995, she was among the first group of subscribers who volunteered to moderate the three ChoralNet lists. In 2003, she moved to her current position of Moderator Co-ordinator. She served on the ChoralNet Board of Directors in 2006.
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Tom Merrill
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Tom Merrill, moderator
Tom Merrill is the Director for Choral Activities at Xavier University,
where he conducts the Concert Choir and the Edgecliff Vocal Ensemble. He
also teaches music history, music theory, conducting and secondary choral
methods. Merrill serves as Director of Music at the Pleasant Ridge
Presbyterian Church and is a past president of the Ohio Choral Directors
Association. He has served on the board of ChoralNet and is presently a
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Cindy Pribble
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Cindy Pribble, Chair of Lists and Forums
Cindy signed on as a Choraltalk moderator in 2001. She is a current Board member and her professional bio may be found on the Board page. She counts her greatest accomplishment as staying married to the same man since 1969. She resides in NC with that patient gentleman, five mixed breed rescue dogs who won't run away from home and two Petit Basset Griffon Vendeens who wish they would. She has three grandchildren. |
Michael Ransom, Moderator Coordinator
Michael Ransom is the Director of Music at First
United Methodist Church (FUMC) in Marion, Iowa.
His musical projects at FUMC have included large
works for chorus and orchestra, and the opera The
True Story of Cinderella for FUMC's inaugural Community
Showcase Series. Mike previously served at
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids,
where he was the music director and conductor of the
Minster Bells handbell ensemble. While at Westminster
he sang the lead role in Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio
Elijah under Professor Richard Hoffman. Prior
to his work at Westminster Mike served as Minister of
Music at Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Cedar
Rapids. Mike's undergraduate and graduate studies
were in vocal performance and choral conducting
at the University of Iowa, where he studied with
Robert Eckert and Don V. Moses. He has done additional
work in choral conducting at Concordia College and
at the Eastman School of Music. He has extensive
vocal solo performance experience including roles
in J.S. Bach's Magnificat and B Minor Mass.
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Michael Ransom
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Allen H Simon, webmaster
's first exposure to show biz was with Tanglestring Theatre, a family marionette theater which performed more-or-less abstract puppetry during his formative years. After several years spent learning to juggle, he went to a college renowned for unicycling. Having failed at that part of the curriculum, Simon turned his attention to music, initially as a composer, then as a conductor, then a jazz pianist, and now he'll certainly make it big as a singer. |
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David Topping
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David Topping, ChoralTalk moderator, manager of Choir Directory
David Topping has been actively involved in the operations of ChoralNet
since 1993 and served as ChoralNet's first Manager from 1998 through
2003. He is the director of music at Los Arcos United Methodist
Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, sings in the Phoenix Bach Choir, and
teaches at Paradise Valley Community College. Topping maintains
ChoralNet's Directory of Choir Websites, moderates ChoralTalk,
the international forums, and ChoralNet Classifieds, and owns
HyperCreations.com, a web design and hosting service. |
Translators
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Jacques Brodeur, French translator
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Jacques Brodeur
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Beatriz Camero, Spanish translator
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Monika Farhnberger, German translator
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