Ann Doyle, (Founder
and Artistic Director of the Greensboro Youth Chorus) is known throughout the state as an outstanding
educator and conductor utilizing movement and creative methods to
enhance vocal training. She often serves as a clinician and
accompanist for festivals and workshops and has been on the teaching
staff for the NC Summer Institute for Choral Arts in Boone. Ms. Doyle
has served as State Children's Choir Chairman and District Junior
High/Middle School Chairman for the American Choral Directors
Association. She served as the accompanist and Associate Director for
the Bel Canto Company.
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Tom Shelton is a native of Greensboro, N.C. and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with both a Bachelor of Music Education Degree and Master of Music in Choral Conducting. He is the Associate Director of the Music Ministry for Children and Youth at First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro. Before working full-time at First Presbyterian Church, Mr. Shelton taught middle school choral music in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County for 18 years. During this time he was selected Teacher of the Year for his school three times, and in 1999 was presented the North Carolina Middle School Music Teacher of the Year award by the NC Music Educators Association.
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Nana Wolfe-Hill
received her Masters of Music in Collaborative Piano at the University of
North Carolina in Greensboro. Before pursuing her Masters degree,
she completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education from
St. Olaf College and was the Associate Choral Director at Lakeville High
School in Lakeville, Minnesota. Currently, Ms. Wolfe-Hill is the Director of
Educational Programs for the Eastern Music Festival and a free-lance
accompanist throughout the region. She also enjoys teaching privately
and working with the Greensboro Youth Chorus.
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Deanna Mattinson, accompanist
for Chorale, is a native of
Summerfield, North Carolina and a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, with a bachelors in Piano
Performance. Over the past several years she has enjoyed the
positions of accompanist for the UNCG's Women's Glee Club, private
piano teacher, and freelance solo performer and accompanist. She
currently teaches at the Community Music School of Winston Salem's
School of the Arts, holds the positions of pianist and youth choir
director at Edgefield Baptist Church, and teaches privately in her
home.
