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


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