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The Santa Cruz Chorale, a non-profit organization founded in 1983, performs a wide-ranging repertory including works from the 15th century through music of our time. It was founded and initially directed by Mary Lynn Place Badarak, Lecturer for the Department of Music at UC Santa Cruz, as a community based volunteer adult chorus, as it continues today. In addition, the Chorale has made two international tours: the first to Northern Italy and Croatia, and the second to Spain, both under the leadership of Paul Vorwerk. Additional conductors during the chorus’s evolution have included Murray Walker, the late Gene Lewis, Paul Vorwerk, and, most recently, Eduardo Mendelievich (2004-2006).
Since 2006, the chorus is led by Christian Grube, the internationally recognized conductor and Professor Emeritus at the Berlin University of the Arts has led the chorale for two decades. The chorale performs three full concerts per year from the choral repertoire, using the beautiful acoustics of the Sanctuary of Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz. Over its existence, the Chorale has been able to attract three of Santa Cruz’ most able accompanists, Vlada Moran, Yalenda Listmann, and Maria Ezerova.
Singers, who live throughout the greater Monterey Bay area, include graduate students, computer mavens, business people, politicians, pastors, attorneys, investigators, consultants, UCSC faculty and staff, high school and grade school teachers, physicians, engineers, and parents of small children. Although several members of the Chorale are professional musicians and some direct musical groups of their own, all volunteer their time, and most are amateurs in the original sense of that word: people who seriously pursue an art for the love of it. |
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Crista Berryessa
Nancy Brookie-Connor
Catharine Eastman
Margie Erickson
Alexandra Florimonte
Barbara Gaskell
Violette Giguère
Karen Gordon-Grube
Nell Griscom
Katherine Hardy
Ruth Kaspar
Laurie Knox
Nancy Norris
Alissa Roedig
Tammy Sager
Teresa Thomae
Julia van der Wyk
Lydia Werthen
April Zilber |
Alison Carrillo
Mary Crawford
Rosella Crawford-Bathurst
Tanya Davidson
Eriko Dreyer
Amiel Goodman
Karen Jelcick
Kulani Kamaha'o
Alisa Klaus
Sharon Nelson
Meri Pezzoni
Shruti Singh
Deana Slater
Nancy Voogd
Mary Ann Wieland
Edith Wuestenhagen
Wendy Wyckoff |
Anne Buelteman
Kevin Crews
Ron Goodman
Paul Lawton
Robert Ley
Eliza Linley
Tom Pennello
Luiz Razera
Kyle Robertson
Richard Roullard
Tommy Travers
Christina Waters |
Roger Chaffin
Alan Chase
Daniel Forrister
Lars Johannesson
David Jones
Michael Logue
Michael Tierra
Niel Warren
Stafford Warren |
