Learn More About Our Guest Choirs
The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra is excited to partner with UNC Choirs, the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, and soloists Kristi Muzzio, Nathan Snyder, and Thomas Erik Angerhofer! Read more about the guest choirs below:
UNC Choirs
Dr. Jill Burgett
Dr. Jill Burgett is the Director of Choral Activities/Director of Choral Music Education at University of Northern Colorado, conducting the UNC Concert Choir and Chamber Choir and teaching graduate choral methods and conducting coursework at UNC. Her doctorate is from Ball State University, where she was the Don Neuen fellowship recipient and subsequently served as Associate Director of Choral Activities. She holds an MM degree (choral conducting) from Ball State and a BM degree (magna cum laude) from Heidelberg University. For over a decade, Burgett conducted choirs in the Indiana public schools. She has served on the Indiana and Colorado ACDA boards and Central Division ACDA board as College and University R&S Chair. She has also served on the NCCO board, and as President, and now Past President, of Colorado ACDA. Burgett is an active festival clinician and conference speaker, and All State Choir Conductor. She is published in Choral Journal and New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Conducting venues include Bulgaria, Barcelona, Montserrat, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, London, Paris, and Rome. She has also taught conducting choral masterclasses in Rome, Bangkok and Barcelona. Her recent sabbatical research on Catalan Choral Music has been presented nationally at SWACDA.
Dr. Clelyn Chapin
Dr. Clelyn Chapin is beginning her first year as Associate Director of Choirs at UNC where conducts choral ensembles and teaches music education courses. Before joining UNC, Clelyn spent 14 years teaching and conducting secondary, collegiate, and community ensembles in Texas, Colorado, and Michigan. As a clinician and presenter throughout the country, she focuses on a combination of rehearsal practices and leadership strategies that promote artistic singing and community building within ensembles. In addition to her work at UNC, Clelyn serves the Artistic Director for the Denver Women’s Chorus, a 140-voice choir founded for members and allies of the LGBTQ community with a focus on social justice.
UNC Choirs Roster
Soprano 2
Weijia Chen
Haven Cordova
Julisa Cross
Ashleigh Eggers
Barbara Fahmy
Sarah Falkenstine
Genesis Green
Madelyn Greer
Berean Haddad
Maleea Hurtado Hamby
Madison Hudgins
Ondria Mings Dippel Jenkins
Annalyse Jensen-Moore
Mihye Kim
Kaitlyn Kuhr
Rosie O'Connor
Jeannette O'Nan
Alexa Perez
Axyl Pliley
Grace Wahlen
Abigail Lincoln
Clay Reichert
Natalie Rieck
Elinor Stutler
Elise Thompson
Soprano 1
Sofia Aarestad
Jenna Abbott
Lanae Barnhill
Micayla Bellamy
Elissa Biehl
Jamie Brown
Mari Christiansen
Eileen Christofferson
Amanda Farley
Elizabeth Hawkins
Natalie Highfield
Jennifer Inderlee
Kathryn Ingalls
Amy Joy James
Angela Johnson
Michelle Kellogg
Erin Kemner
Yao Lu
Cheyanna McGlothlin
Shannon Murray
Cristal Murillo
Katherine Muser
Nereyda Nuchurch
Jasmine Perry-Grice
Mckayla Price
Jordan Rife
Ruby Ringrose
Lexi Schindler
Tessa Stauder
Christie Swoboda
Aly Toews
Khloe Tucker
Katya Walhof
Chloe Wheeler
Aly Wlliamson
Nadia Zelenbaba
Alto 2
Charlie Archuleta
Samantha Brewer
Christabel Carrillo
Nicole Ceciliani
Anne Farus
Morgan Hall
Amelia Haug
Corina Hedahl
Amanda Hoffman
Cassandra Hooper
Marcella House
Somrak Intavimolsri
Chaya Jensen
Laura Kopetzky
Emma Larson
Leah Marshall
MJ Nguyen
Natasha Nordick
Karen Olide
Dana Olivier
Paige Oziah
Alexandra Richey
Natalie Rieck
Elizabeth Scarselli
Elizabeth Stanley
PeiJyun Syu
Sarah Thompson
Sarah Vicente
Alto 1
Alicia Alton
Kelsey Anderson
Kaylin Bailey
Mary Baxter
Melynie Campbell
Laura Cole
Maya Cooney
Jadyn Franz
Karen Gonzalez
Shanti Gruber
Kaia Hoopes
olhathai Intawong
Andra Jaccard
Tara Kessner
Sarah Kurth
Emma Larson
Amber Yanlu Li
Edynn Quinn Lucero
Shaina Macy
Cecily Mash
Ashley Medley
Diana Munoz
Jade Perry-Grice
Tatiana Sharon
Alex Ward
Danielle Weber
Conner Williams
Sarah Willenbrecht
Jennifer Wagner
Hanna Wo
Yudi Zhang
Tenor 2
Ryan Adler
Marco Armijo
Anthony Capraro
Rolan Christofferson
Benjamin Corneliusen
Chuanhong Dong
Andrew Keith
Travis Kornegay
Dante Macy
Jeremy Newton
Mark Ossip
TJ Salcido
Bradley Schooley
Bobby Swift
Tenor 1
Brian Adams
Aiden Casek
Robert Berg
Reese Cruz
Christian Garcia-Fuentes
Sumner Grey
Shane Mosser
Nick Newman
Deven Ogle
Ryan Ostlund
Jack Richard
Avery J Sanford
Samuel Sherman
Travis Turner
Bass 2
Perry Bell
Junyuan Chen
Jeff Dixon
Ryan Flanagan
Dylan Frederick-Law
Nathan Grammer
Rich Green
Curtis Hope Hill
Travis Jensen
Matthew Kellogg
Jake Larcqua
Dante Parlin
Kory Powell
Hunter Robar
Owen Smith
Bass 1
Ryan Caldwell
Michael Carrasquillo
Ewan Edwards
Phil Forman
Akshay Ghiya
John B. Herman
David Hoffman
David Hulac
Daniel Kiburz
Michael Kirkpatrick
Ben Kust
Alexander Lawrence
Christian Leidholm
Zechariah Oswald
Ajay Romero
Michael Stadler
Jaiden Twining
Eliot Whittier
Anders Wolle
Nathan Wubbena
Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale
Abigail Gast
Summit Ensemble Director
Abigail Gast is a mezzo-soprano, conductor, and voice teacher from Kansas City, Missouri. Although voice is her primary instrument, she has also played percussion in wind ensembles, orchestras, and drumlines for over 11 years. While receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Voice and Music Education at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, Abigail conducted the Concert Choir, Chamber Choirs, and University Orchestra, and enjoyed performing in all these ensembles, as well as the Pepperdine Wind Ensemble and the new music ensemble, Collegium Musicum. Abigail has been featured as a young artist and vocal soloist at several summer festivals, including Amherst Early Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Illinois Bach Academy.
Abigail studied choral conducting under Dr. Andrew Megill and Dr. Andrea Solya at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While living in Illinois, she developed her love for teaching young people as the assistant conductor of Central Illinois Youth Chorus.
Danielle Gillespie
Pikes Peak Singers Director
Danielle has an extensive background in vocal music. An Alum of the Colorado Springs Children's Chorale, she was also heavily involved in musical theatre and choral music all through schooling. She went on to study classical voice performance at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music and graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Music in classical voice performance, with advanced coursework in vocal pedagogy and choral conducting. Some of her notable collaborations in the Colorado region have included: Equinox Theatre, Inspire Creative, Opera Fort Collins, Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, Evans Choir, Colorado Ballet Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, collaborations with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic through the Bravo Vail! Music Festival, and even singing backup for Josh Groban at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. She has studied with Cynthia Vaughn, Todd Queen, Gayle Grace, Katrina Twitty, and Catherine Sailer. Danielle's approach to teaching is to invoke joy and passion for music, whole body engagement to develop good habits, and an understanding of contextual music theory.
Pikes Peak Singers
Caelyn Adams
Ariel Aparicio
Kayla Bond-Tetzlaff
Cedar Clevenger
Valentina Coss
Jude Crumpton
Maurilio Gonzalez III
Chloe Joseph
Iris Lund
Emma Meyer
Isaac Niles
Cora Stadjuhar
Joseph Staples
Summit Ensemble
Madison Combellick
Esther Leyba
Chloe' Wilkins
CeCe Bowens
Precious Holland
Liz Hoyle
Mianna Krieger
Grace Pauletta
Deron Crumpton
Nathaniel Krieger
James Polyefko
Caleb Wilkins
Natalie Douglass
Ivey Goodwin
Leighanna Rose
Kristine Berryman
Lauren Campbell
Sophi Figueroa
Kate Hoyle
Kenny Gray IV
Eddie Durham