Kristen Walton is in her seventh year as the director of choirs at Riverside Poly High School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from CSU Fullerton. She currently sings as a member of Pacific Chorale and serves on the board for the Southern California Vocal Association.

Riverside Poly High School Choir is comprised of members from two ensembles, Chamber Singers and Bella Voce. These students are part of a very active program that performs throughout Southern California and the United States. Students from this ensemble regularly participate in regional and national honor choirs as well as numerous Southern California Festivals.

Mr. Easterling has a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music Education from Central Michigan University. He has been the conductor of the Laingsburg Community Singers for 20 years and has taught elementary music in Laingsburg for 15 years. Mr. Easterling has many passions but singing and riding his Harley-Davidson are at the top of the list.

Since 1976 the Laingsburg Community Singers have been providing choral music for Laingsburg and the mid-Michigan area. The group is made up of people who love to sing and want to work hard to produce a quality experience for the listener. Our members come from a variety of communities in mid-Michigan and from all walks of life who all have singing in common. We wish to continue bringing choral music enrichment to the lives of our communities for the future.

Dr. Robert Istad is Artistic Director of Pacific Chorale and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Mr. Istad regularly conducts and collaborates with Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Sony Classical Records, Yarlung Records, Berkshire Choral International, and Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Istad and Pacific Chorale are featured on two upcoming recordings: an album of Tarik O’Regan’s compositions on Yarlung Records and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s live recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon. Istad has prepared choruses for a number of America’s finest conductors and orchestras, including Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony. Istad is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He was recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year. He and his singers brought staged performances of David Lang’s little match girl passion throughout Spain in 2019. They performed a retrospective of Tarik O’Regan’s music for DCINY at Carnegie Hall in November 2015. They have performed at numerous regional and national ACDA conferences including the 2018 ACDA Western Division Conference and 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas. They also performed for the 2013 National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference in Charleston, SC.

California State University, Fullerton’s Symphonic Chorus, directed by Dr. Robert Istad and Christopher Peterson rank among the nation’s premiere collegiate choral ensembles. The Singers have performed throughout the world on its own and regularly perform with a variety of professional orchestras, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. They have earned praise for their work with conductors Carl St.Clair, John Mauceri, John Williams, Eugene Kohn, Sir Neville Marriner, James Conlon, and Keith Lockhart. Internationally acclaimed for their exquisite musicianship, they have been invited to perform at conferences organized by the American Choral Directors Association, National Collegiate Choral Organization and the Music Educators National Conference. Recently, the CSUF Singers performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli, Kathleen Battle, recorded an album with composer John Williams and Sony Classical. They released a commercial recording with Yarlung Records for international wide release in November 2017 entitled Nostos: The Homecoming of Music. The ensemble was in residence in Paris in June 2015 for a series of performances, and performed a concert of Tarik O’Regan’s music in Carnegie Hall in November 2015. The Singers have performed at the 2018 and 2012 Western Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association, 2013 National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference, and the 2013 National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association . Recent international concert tours have included stops in Austria, Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and just returned from a concert tour in Spain. They have sung at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, for UNESCO in Pisa, Italy, and at the Ottobeuren and Eingen Festivals of Music in Germany. The Singers have also recently performed with Juanes, M83, Andrea Bocelli, Beck, Beach House, Sean Lennon and can be seen in the PBS production “The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses.”

Dr. Martha Springstead has served as Director of Music at Community United Methodist Church in Virginia Beach for 28 years. A public school music educator for over 40 years, she is a sought after accompanist and choral clinician. Currently, Dr. Springstead is a university supervisor of vocal music student teachers, and a collaborative pianist for two universities.

The Chancel Choir at Community United Methodist Church has been in existence for over 60 years and participates in weekly worship. The music ministry has choirs at every level, including a men's choir and a women's choir, youth and two children's choir, along with hand bells and an orchestra.

Christopher Rust has been the director of choral activities at Sunset High School for the last fifteen years. In addition to singing, Chris enjoys spending time with his family, kayaking, skiing and playing (winning) board games.

Sunset High School has a rich, sixty year history of choral excellence. One of our claim to fames it Sunset graduate, choral composer Morten Lauridsen. Sunset's four choirs and two acappella groups enjoy performing throughout the community and keeping that rich choral tradition alive.

Chris Watlington is the music director of FUMC Center, TX. He is also finishing his 30th year as theatre director of Center High School. Before his time as church music director, Watlington was keyboardist for several contemporary Christian bands and Nashville recording artists including the Gary Ritchey Band, Kacey Lansdale, and Miranda Lambert.

The Shelby County singers are musicians from a rural county in east Texas. They include --David Mathis, choir director at First Baptist (FBC), Center -- Barbara Mathis, soprano and accompanist at FBC, Center --Melody Golden, soprano and long-time member of choir at FBC, Center --Linda Kay Russell, attorney and vocalist/band leader of Linda Kay and the Country Gentlemen --Danny Paul Windham, singer/songwriter and recording artist, band leader of The Pack of Strays --Sally Windham, singer and member of The Pack of Strays --Keaton Watlington, musician and student of Berklee Music School, Boston

Pamela McClain is a retired music educator having taught choral music and class piano for 33 years in public schools. She holds a B.A. in Music Education, a Master of Arts in Liberal Learning as well as post graduate studies in music education. Mrs. McClain is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, National Federation of Music Educators and the teacher sorority Delta Kappa Gamma. She has been selected as County Teacher of the Year, WV Vocal Association Teacher of the Year, Who's Who Among American High School Teachers, and was a 2017 Grammy Music Educator of the Year Finalist. She currently resides in Parkersburg, West Virginia where she maintains a private voice and piano studio. She is the Director of Music Ministry at the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Parkersburg. She is wife to Steve and mother to Merideth.

The Emmanuel Baptist Singers, a 21 member ensemble, is comprised of church choir members and singers from the Parkersburg, West Virginia area. The singers come from varied, musical backgrounds. Many have studied privately, have sung in numerous choirs, or have music degrees. Though musically diverse, their vision is unified...to exalt the name of the Lord through song as one body in Christ.