Our Singers

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Katie has been studying music since the age of five and has sung in many renowned choral groups on the West Coast including the Oregon Repertory Singers in Portland, San Francisco Bach Choir, and Seattle University Choirs. She also loves folk music and is an avid volunteer with the Ashland Folk Collective concerts. Katie is currently a teacher at Logos Public Charter School in Medford where she teaches science and coordinates outdoor education programs.

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Natalie joined SORS in 2022 when she was a graduate student at SOU. Originally from Pennsylvania, Natalie has performed in many choirs, a cappella groups, and musical theater productions, and was happy to find her musical home in Oregon with the Rep Singers. When she’s not singing, Natalie can be found leading outdoor education programs, volunteering at the animal shelter, birdwatching, or spending time at home with her partner. She is grateful to be a member of this group filled with so many talented musicians!”

Muriel teaches Kindermusik at the Rogue Music Academy while also building a holistic health and wellness business. She has extensive experience as a vocal soloist, cantor, and professional choral singer in opera, oratorio, concert, and sacred music, as well as performing with the Rogue Valley Symphony and Southern Oregon Repertory Singers. Her solo recitals push the boundaries of classical music by intertwining important messages that speak to unearthing our whole selves and expanding our mind, body, and soul. She earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU and a BA in Music and International Studies from SOU.

Amanda has a BA in Vocal Performance from Oregon State University. She loves living in Southern Oregon for its many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors, as well as the thriving arts community. She has been singing with the Repertory Singers for almost 15 years, and has also performed with Camelot Theater, Brava! Opera, and Rogue Opera. Amanda lives with her husband and three children on a three acre hobby farm, and teaches music to grades 4-8 at Madrone Trail Public Waldorf School. She is currently completing a yoga teacher training program through Ashland Yoga Center to bring her love of yoga to middle schoolers.

Tatjana has been passionate about music
since the age of four. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, performing on clarinet, saxophone, flute, guitar, and voice. Holding a degree in music from SOU, she performs with several local bands including Jackie Tomato, Smiley T and the Tall Trees, Collin and Company, and The Seth Charles Band. She also works as an orchestral pit musician, recently performing in the Camelot Theatre’s productions of Something Rotten and Cabaret. Tatjana has a passion for writing music as well, and performs her original folk songs across the Rogue Valley under the alias Tatjana Juliette.

Jennifer has completed degrees in Psychology, Music, Music Therapy, and a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from SOU and ASU. She is a soloist with the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, the Rogue Valley Chorale, and has performed on numerous occasions with the Rogue Valley Symphony, including their staged performance of Arvo Pärt’s Passio. She has appeared in five operas here in the Rogue Valley. She also loves singing early music, and performing with the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra. Ms. Matsuura was a featured vocalist in Britt Festival Orchestra’s world premiere installation of Brush, a commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Caroline Shaw. She has performed and recorded many new works by composers of the Southern Oregon chapter of NACUSA, one of which was recognized by the American Prize for Vocal Chamber Music in 2024. She is the soprano cantor at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ashland, where she can often be heard singing new works by Jodi French.

Taylor is a Rogue Valley native. She has
directed choirs, provided private vocal coaching in a variety of states and countries, and has worked with internationally known artists: Kristen Chenowith, Voces 8, Frederica von Stade, David Archuleta, and others. Taylor earned her Music Education degree from Brigham Young University-Idaho and is in her second year of teaching at Grants Pass High School. Taylor is grateful for the opportunity to sing with Southern Oregon Repertory Singers.

Cynthia first joined a choir when she was 10 years old and has been singing ever since. In high school, she was type cast as Sarah in Guys and Dolls. She studied voice at the Oberlin College Conservatory and toured with the Oberlin College Choir. During a fellowship year in India, she conducted a chapel choir and studied Carnatic music (South Indian classical music). Since then, she has sung in choirs in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Rogue Valley. Cynthia describes singing as not only an artistic pursuit but also a source of personal renewal and a space where lessons in leadership—such as the importance of both leading andfollowing—play out in real time. When not singing, Cynthia is a management consultant and executive coach with organizations from Seattle to San Francisco.

Christine Williams is a multi-disciplinary performing artist rooted in classical forms with a contemporary sensibility. A singer, actor, director, and writer, her work spans the spectrum from opera, musicals, jazz, and experimental electronics, to Shakespeare, new plays, and physical theatre. Chris teaches voice at Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, works as a music and stage director for local theatres, and has an active private studio. Credits as a performer include many seasons at OSF and regional theatres and concert halls across the country. Chris is a proud union member and an award-winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks.

Marie’s choral experience began in preschool and continued throughout college. Highlights include singing under Dr. Roger Wagner of The Roger Wagner Chorale where she was a featured soloist in works by Faure, Handel, and Mozart among others, performing new musical theatre works at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and singing in the Sound of America Honor Band and Chorus, a select group of singers that performed throughout Europe. After college, Marie embarked on a 19yr career in musical theatre performing such roles as Maria in West Side Story, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Grace Farrell in the National Broadway Tour of Annie directed by the musical’s lyricist, Martin Charnin. She performed around the world on cruise ships, in Light Opera, and with the NY Ragtime Orchestra touring Japan. Next, Marie transitioned into music ministry performing over 300 solo concerts throughout the country, recording 4 studio albums, and appearing on numerous Christian broadcasts including The Hour of Power at the Crystal Cathedral with Rev. Robert Schuller. By joining the Repertory Singers, Marie feels she has returned to her first love, choral music, and is grateful for this chapter in a rewarding musical journey.

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Shelly, born and raised in the Rogue Valley, has studied voice for more than 25 years. She is a frequent soloist and chorus member with many ensembles in the region including Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, Siskiyou Singers, Rogue Valley Chorale, Trinity Episcopal Church and Ashland First Presbyterian Church. She is a core singer with the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers. Shelly works on the Administrative Team for Jackson County Mental Health and currently resides in Medford with her family.

Paula began playing the harp and singing in choirs from an early age. She earned her Bachelor of Music (harp performance) at San Francisco State University in 1988 then went on to pursue her other calling, Nursing. After moving to the Rogue Valley in 2017 she rediscovered her musical roots first with the Rogue Valley Chorale, then SORS, then playing the harp again. Paula works as an RN at Rogue Regional Medical Center.

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Susan joined SORS in January 2022, just a month after moving to the Rogue Valley to be closer to her family (grandbabies!!). She retired as a professor from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA in 2019 where she did research and taught classes in negotiation and inter-organizational collaboration. Her choral experience prior to SORS included Aria Women’s choir, Monterey Symphony Choir, and the Carmel Bach Festival chorus. Being a member of SORS brings her great joy, both in making beautiful music and developing some wonderful friendships. Susan particularly thanks Paul and Jodi French!

Laurie is very happy to have found her true home in the Rogue Valley after an extensive career in New York, playing and conducting at the New York City Opera and on Broadway. Former Artistic Director of the Rogue Valley Chorale, she taught music at SOU for over 20 years and has led productions for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Cabaret Theater, SOU Theater Arts, Rogue Opera, Brava! Opera and Medford’s Collaborative Theater Project. She also spent many years playing therapeutic harp music for Providence hospice and is currently Music Director at the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland.

Linda has sung in choirs and musicals/operettas since middle school. Linda and her husband, Michael, have loved singing with the Repertory Singers since 2019, soon after they moved to Medford from Cupertino, CA, where they met in 1971 singing in the De Anza College Chorale and Vintage Singers. They also sing in the Trinity Episcopal Church choir, as well as volunteer with Medford Garden Club and Rogue Valley Habitat for Humanity. They enjoy spending time with their son, daughter-in-law and their 3 grandchildren, and their daughter and son-in-law—who are all engaged in music!

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Miriam has been singing in choirs and small ensembles since she was three years old. She also plays piano and has accompanied vocal and instrumental musicians over the years. After retiring from New Mexico State University she took up cello and has played with the Shasta Symphony Orchestra in Redding, CA and currently plays with the Three Rivers Community Orchestra in Grants Pass, OR. Having the opportunity to sing with So. Oregon Repertory Singers and being surrounded by the beautiful music and voices of this group has been the most joyful and rewarding musical experience she’s had.

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Brian has been a professional performing artist for more than four decades: instrumentalist, actor, singer both choral and solo including musicals and operas, conductor, composer. and arranger. He has worked and performed up and down both coasts of the US and in Europe. He lives in Ashland with his spouse, renowned singer and voice teacher Madeline Abel-Kerns.

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Zachery has been a musician since a young age, and now sings with Southern Oregon Repertory Singers and SOU Chamber Choir. To him, music communicates, pushes boundaries, and is a window into the mind and heart. In 2017 he graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Music and Media, and is now putting it to use in making the community thrive with music.

Ken first became a musician in third grade when his parents bought him a french horn. Through high school Ken was in every band/choir/musical production he could join. After 2 years at DeAnza College, he transferred to UCLA where he became the student conductor/musical director for the Theater Arts Department. Founding member of Los Angeles Chamber Singers. Interned at Actors Studio West Hollywood. First Equity production at age 22, most recent at age 60. Eight seasons with San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at Davies Symphony Hall as a featured soloist. And countless performances with other organizations in between.

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Brian is originally from Minnesota but lived in San Francisco for more than 35 years. He retired to Ashland with his spouse Greg about 5 years ago. He has a Bachelor of Accounting degree from University of Minnesota-Duluth and a J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law. His choral singing experience goes back to University Singers of Minnesota-Duluth and after that with Twin Cities Men’s Chorus of Minneapolis, Windy City Gay Chorus of Chicago and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Choir in San Francisco. He loves living in Ashland and is grateful for the opportunity to sing with such an extraordinary vocal group as Southern Oregon Repertory Singers.

Hal began singing in organized choirs at age five. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in choral conducting and education. In addition to University Singers and the Chamber Choir there, he was one of the three co-founders of the Oregon Vocal Jazz Ensemble. After moving from Eugene, he joined the faculty at St. Mary’s School and started the school’s music program. Wing then became the forensics coach at the school, which kept him out of performing for over 25 years. Realizing that his sanity was at stake from lack of singing, he finally left coaching and returned to his first love. “I have been blessed with so many chances to sing with a lot of world-renowned groups and directors,” said Wing, “but Paul French and the Repertory Singers are as good or better than any of them!”

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Kenneth has been actively involved in various choral ensembles in the Rogue Valley since relocating to Medford in 2010. While pursuing his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Southern Oregon University, he performed in shows with Rogue Opera, including a character role in ‘Madame Butterfly’ in 2015. After graduating in 2014, he joined multiple choral ensembles simultaneously. In 2018, he toured with the Rogue Valley Chorale and the Men of Worth in Ireland. He’s also toured with Repertory Singers’ outreach ensembles, inspiring people at schools and retirement homes. Today, he uses music to uplift and inspire all who hear the beauty of choral music.

Dale has performed as a soloist and chorister in several Bay Area groups, including the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Chamber Singers (now Volti), Festival Opera and Pacific Edge Voices, in genres ranging from classical to a cappella jazz and pop. He is delighted to have found a new home in the Rogue Valley and the Repertory Singers.

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Don has a Bachelor of Music degree from
Eastern Michigan University, a Master’s in Vocal Performance from USC, and was a member of the San Francisco Opera chorus. In 1998, he became the morning classical music host at Jefferson Public Radio until he retired in 2024. Don was a voice teacher at SOU from 2002 to 2021 and has appeared in numerous productions with the Camelot Theatre, Rogue Music Theatre among others. He has also appeared in numerous productions with Rogue Music Theatre and Camelot Theatre. He has also appeared as a soloist with Rogue Valley Chorale, Siskiyou Singers, and Rogue Opera.

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Bill is a native of Northern California. He grew up in Chico where he graduated from CSU, Chico before going off to study osteopathic medicine at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Northeast Missouri.  He practices functional family medicine and neuromusculoskeletal medicine. Though he did not formally study music at any time, he has been in various choirs over the years, briefly singing with the Mormon Youth Chorus, and a few times with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  He joined the Repertory Singers in 2018 and sings baritone/bass.

Ron has sung in choral settings since childhood and in the Repertory Singers since 2016. Other musical endeavors include music directing and conducting pit orchestras for local theatre companies over the last 22 years. His musical theatre activity has included many projects with his wife of 39 years (also a Rep Singers member), two daughters and other family. A resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, Ron enjoys living near his four grandchildren. He earned a minor in music from California Lutheran University, is an editor by trade and is involved in music, teaching and serving at his church. Soli Deo Gloria.

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Randall taught choral and instrumental music in school districts in northern California until retiring in 2010. He joined the Repertory Singers in 2010. He and his wife moved to Talent in 2020.

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