Photo Gallery: 2004-2005
Members of the Chorale: Spring 2010
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Soprano I:
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Alto I:
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Holly Adams | Alto II
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| Holly is entering her third year in the Women's Chorale and is delighted to be a part of it! A theatre person by trade, she has exhibited her many talents as a performer, writer, director, and mask maker. Holly has sung in various shows and choirs since she was little. Holly thoroughly enjoys anything that involves her personal superhero, Doreen.
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Doreen Alsen | Musical Director
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| Doreen is the proud owner of a varied and extremely checkered musical past. She graduated magna cum laude from Barrington College with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education, and followed that up with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College. She studied conducting with Alfred Smith, Frank Marinaccio and Larry Doebler. Her voice teachers include Rosamund Wadsworth, Ed Doucette, Carol McAmis, Gary Race and Peter Sicilian, as well as master classes in Vienna, Austria with Kammersäengerin Sena Jurinac. In addition to leading the Chorale, Doreen teaches singing at CSMA. She's been an active member of the CSMA faculty since 1985. She has sung featured roles for the Ithaca Opera, the Cabot Street Light Opera (Providence, RI) and the Rhode Island Gilbert and Sullivan Society. While living in Trier, Germany, Doreen taught American musical theater at the Universität Trier, as well as giving a series of lectures and recitals on the connections between American composers and poets. Doreen is the Music Director for All Saints Church in Lansing and serves as the liaison between the Tompkins Region Catholic Churches and the Diocese of Rochester Liturgy Committee. Every summer, Doreen writes the scripts for the very successful CSMA teen musical theater program, Star Search, and serves as its musical director. She is a faculty representative to the CSMA Board of Directors. Doreen is a member of the American Choral Directors’ Association, the Choristers’ Guild, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Romance Writers of America, and the Southern Tier Authors of Romance. The first chapter of her first manuscript, Mike's Best Bet, took third place in the San Antonio Romance Author's Merritt Award contest in the long contemporary category. Both her first book, Mike’s Best Bet, and her second, What Ian Wants, will be 2009 releases by The Wild Rose Press. She is busy writing the third book in the series, Dealing With Dave.
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Michelle Arroyo | Soprano I
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| Michelle joined FLWC in 1996. Her family is from the Boston/Plymouth area. She moved to Ithaca while in elementary school, and grew up playing soccer, but also the flute. She started concentrating on voice in the Contemporary Music Ensemble of St. Catherine of Siena church. Michelle took voice lessons until her children came along.... She continues to serve as occasional soloist and cantor at St. Catherine's. Michelle enjoys learning to use her voice in different and more demanding ways. In between singing appearances, Michelle is a Registered Nurse at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca.
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Mary Beth Bunge | Soprano II/Alto I
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| Mary Beth Bunge is delighted to return to the Finger Lakes Women's Chorale after a 5+ year hiatus. Mary Beth has studied with Randy Blooding at Ithaca College and has sung locally with Cornell Chorale, Ithaca College summer choir, and Church of the Epiphany and Unitarian Church. Vocal roles in the past range from Hansel in the opera Hansel & Gretel (Twin Cities Interim Opera), Godspell ensemble (Miami University) to lead vocalist in folk, rock, new wave, and jazz fusion bands in Minneapolis MN, Ohio and Ithaca. She sings when she's happy, whether while working at the Hangar Theatre or while enjoying her supportive family and friends.
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Carol Lawrence | Soprano I/II
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| Carol balances her career as a computer programmer for the Cornell Campus Store with many artistic talents. She enjoys Hip Hop, Tap and African dancing, woodworking, singing with the Chorale and the Unitarian Choir and most recently playing percussion with the Ithaca Concert Band, just to name a few. Carol has a teenage daughter and son who play trumpet and French horn respectively, and a husband who plays the bass.
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Janet Morgan | Soprano I/II, Steering Committee
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| Dr. Jan credits Ithaca soprano Carol Buckley with the idea of studying voice with Doreen Alsen. And what a great idea that was! With Doreen’s skilled guidance and a love of singing, Dr. Jan embarked on a vocal adventure. Her singing career in Ithaca has included solo and ensemble work with the Cornell Savoyards, the First Presbyterian Church Choir, the Ithaca Community Chorus (ICC), the ICC Chamber Singers, and, of course, the Finger Lakes Women’s Chorale. Along with other Chorale members, she had a brief career as a nun in the 2001 Hangar Theater production of the Sound of Music. In her more serious moments, she is a faculty member at TC3 where she chairs the nursing program. | |
Katy Munson | Soprano II, Webmistress
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| The Finger Lakes Women's Chorale represents a return to my roots for me, as my first small group singing experience was in the all-female Ensemble in high school. Since then I have sung in several choral groups at Williams College: the (now defunct) Choral Society, the Concert Choir, and most notably a classical choral a capella group, the Elizabethans. I was a member of the group for three and a half years, and was a co-director for the last two. Other musical experience includes seventeen years of flute playing and fifteen years in various church choirs and music ministries. Currently, I also sing in the choir at All Saint's Church in Lansing. I dabble in the more primitive flute forms including the recorder and have been known to play a few chords on the guitar. I like to play with vocal arranging and writing obbligatos for the flute. Since none of this pays enough to put my husband through graduate school, I work as a technician in a molecular biology lab at Cornell. This is my sixth year in the FLWC.
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Diane Withiam | Soprano I
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| Diane Withiam has sung with FLWC since 1994. Previous choral experience includes CSMA Singers and later Whiton Chorale, predecessor groups of FLWC, as well as Cornell Chorale. Since 1982, she has directed children's and adult choirs at Lansing United Methodist Church. Her day job involves work as an attorney in the Law Guardian Office. She has three grown children, all musically inclined, one of whom chose music as a profession as well as a husband who enjoys singing and playing his clarinet. |