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Kairos Members

Sopranos

	Shanna Andrawis received her B.A. in History at the University of California, Irvine and her M.M. in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Since moving to the Hudson Valley in 2006, Ms. Andrawis has sung with Cappella Festiva, the Hudson Valley Bachfest, Kairos, and the Dutchess Anti-Slavery Singers, a group dedicated to the historical performance of abolitionist songs. She has performed as a soloist in such works as Dvořák's Mass in D Major, Bach's B-Minor Mass, and the Mozart and Fauré Requiems. Shanna teaches Global History, Economics, and Government at Poughkeepsie High School.

	Elizabeth Leonard Clifton began her vocal training while in high school in Baltimore, Maryland and continued her study of voice at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.A. in Sociology. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently enjoys teaching music and movement with Mid-Hudson Music Together, an early childhood music program. She is currently a member of Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, and has previously been a member of and performed solos with the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chorale, The Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, the Richmond Choral Arts Society, The Oratorio Society of Charlottesville-Albemarle, the Hudson Valley BachFest, and Cappella Festiva. Elizabeth lives in Poughkeepsie with her husband and two young children.

	Amy Goldin has been a core member of Antioch Chamber Ensemble since 2002, a 12 voice chamber choir with which she has performed in numerous festivals here and abroad, including Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC, the Musique en Morvan Festival and the Festival des Choeurs Laureats in France, Nautilus Music Festival in Nova Scotia, and the highly prestigious Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain, in which they were awarded first place honors. Amy has performed extensively with numerous ensembles and in various vocal styles throughout the greater metropolitan area, including Prana, Cantori New York, Greenwich Village Singers, American Women's Chorus, the Cygnus Ensemble, Opera Quotannis, Teatro Grattacielo, and New Jersey Verrismo Opera. She can be heard singing the role of Branghien in Frank Martin’s oratorio Le Vin Herbé, recorded by Newport Classics and released in 2000, and on Antioch's newest CD,The Passing of the Year, released by MSR Classics in May, 2010. She is also a yoga teacher and mother of 2 beautiful children.

	Christine Howlett is the Director of Choral Activities at Vassar College, where she conducts the Vassar College Women's Chorus, Vassar College Choir and teaches music theory and voice. She is Artistic Director of Cappella Festiva and was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Poughkeepsie Boys' Choir. In 2006, she co-founded the Summer Choral Festival for treble voices at Vassar College and the Cappella Festiva Treble Choir. As a performer, Christine has sung under Paul Hillier, Lorin Maazel, and Helmut Rilling, both as soloist and choral member. Ms. Howlett earned the Bachelor of Vocal Performance from the University of Toronto and the Master of Early Music Voice Performance from Indiana University. She earned a Doctoral Degree in Choral Conducting at Indiana University. She has studied voice and conducting with Alan Bennett, Jan Harrington, Mary Ann Hart, Paul Hillier, Drew Minter, Helmut Rilling, Stanley Ritchie, John Poole and Carmen Tellez.

	Carol Lundergan holds a B.A. in Vocal Performance and a B.S. in Music Therapy from SUNY-New Paltz. She serves as Secretary and Publicity Director for Kairos, and she is also the creator and webmaster of the Kairos website. She is President and CEO of CompuDat Systems, Inc., a software firm which designs custom software for labor unions. In her musical life Carol has been a soloist and member of the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus, the SUNY-New Paltz Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and College-Community Chorale, the Bach Festival Choirs, the NYC Riverside Choral Society, Ulster Choral Society, Christ Church Choir, Cappella Festiva, and the UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie Fellowship Singers. She performs frequently on the Hudson Valley Society for Music's Potluck Concert Series and presented concerts at Mohonk Mountain House's Summer Music Festival for several years. Ms. Lundergan has studied voice with Claudia Cummings, Barbara Hardgrave, Jacqueline Horner Kwiatek and Drew Minter.

Altos

	Tricia Lewis Agar has performed extensively throughout the Hudson Valley as vocalist, soloist, cellist, and music director. She is a founding member and past President of Kairos. Tricia is also a member of the Kartuli Ensemble, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of the music of the nation of Georgia, and she is a vocalist for The Big Band Sound. Tricia has performed leading and supporting roles with GSMTC, County Players, Ninety Miles off Broadway, and New Paltz Summer Repertory Theatre, including the title role in Hello, Dolly! and Mama Rose in Gypsy. An accomplished cellist, Tricia plays in various chamber ensembles and pit orchestras in venues throughout the Hudson Valley. She has also performed with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. On the other end of the baton, Tricia has served as Music Director for County Players' productions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Evita, and La Cage aux Folles.

	Pat Marquez serves as Kairos Treasurer (a thankless job, and she does it extremely well!). Pat holds a degree in French from SUNY-Geneseo and owns her own bookkeeping business. Pat is also a member of the SUNY-New Paltz College-Community Chorale and the Bach Festival Choir in Poughkeepsie and has sung with Halcyon Singers, the Berkshire Choral Festival and the Orange Classic Choral Society.

	Ingrid Narken is a native of the Hudson Valley area, having grown up in Poughkeepsie. She received a B.S. degree in music theory and composition from SUNY New Paltz, where she studied with Gundaris Poné, and a M.S. degree in music education from Western Connecticut State University. Ingrid has taught vocal music for the Washingtonville Central School District in Orange County New York since 1990. She has been musical director for several school musical productions, including “Annie,” Grease,” and “The Wizard of Oz.”. In addition to teaching, Ingrid has performed throughout the Hudson Valley with many area choral groups, including the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, and has performed with the Opera Company of the Highlands productions of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “I Pagliacci” and “Madame Butterfly” as chorus member. She became Chorus Master and Director of the Newburgh Symphonic Chorale in 2009.

	Kathryn Stewart is absolutely thrilled to be singing with Kairos and serves as its Vice President. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Carleton College and a M.A. in math education from Rutgers University. Kathryn began her singing career at the age of 3 as a member of The Stewart Family Troubadours and has loved singing ever since. She has sung with Seattle Pro Musica, the Canby Singers in NYC, the SUNY-New Paltz College Community Chorale, and at Lincoln Center in Bang On A Can’s performance of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. As a modern dancer, she has toured nationally and internationally with the Pat Graney Company, based in Seattle. Currently, she dances and sings around the classroom as she teaches math at New Paltz High School.

Tenors

	Scott Borden has been singing in various choral ensembles since he was about 5 years old. Scott sang for 10 seasons in New York's Stonewall Chorale and for 10 seasons before that in The Larry Parsons Chorale. He also worked for 20 years in Public Radio, most recently at WNYC in New York. Scott is a member of the Order of the Holy Cross in West Park and is thrilled to be able to sing with Kairos as well.

	Craig Fryer holds his B.S. degree in Music Ed. from West Chester University where he majored in French horn and voice. He holds his M.Mus. degree in Composition from SUNY-Binghamton where he studied with Gundaris Pone. He is director of bands and the jazz ensemble at Millbrook H.S. His compositions have been performed by Cappella Festiva in Poughkeepsie, NY, the First Presbyterian Church of Poughkeepsie Chancel Choir, Basically Brass of Philadelphia, and members of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, among other groups. He has been musical director for the Hudson Valley GSMTC and guest conductor several times for Cappella Festiva. Craig is also a member of the American Composer's Forum.

	John B Hedges received his B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania, M.M. from Westminster Choir College and Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. In his summers, John B has attended the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with John Harbison and George Tsontakis, and the Britten-Pears School (as both composer and conductor.) He subsequently returned to the U.K. as assistant to Oliver Knussen and assisted Tan Dun on the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The First Emperor. John B's music has been performed throughout the U.S. as well as Canada, France and England, and he has received fellowships from the Independence Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the artists colony, Yaddo. He currently lives in Rosendale and teaches at SUNY-New Paltz.

	Glenn Knickerbocker holds his B.Mus. in vocal performance from Rice University, where he studied with Frances Bible. He is a Software Engineer with IBM Corporation in Poughkeepsie. Glenn is a frequent soloist in the Hudson Valley and appeared as Hamor in Handel's Jephtha, as Marco in The Gondoliers, as Strephon in Iolanthe, as Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow, as Mr. Erlanson in A Little Night Music, as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado and most recently as the Governor in last fall's production of Candide with GSMTC. Glenn is also Director of the Kartuli Ensemble, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of the folk songs of the nation of Georgia.

Baritones

	Donald Boyer is a native of St. Louis, Missouri and moved east in 1982 to work for Educational Music Service, the main supplier of sheet music purchases to major orchestras, opera companies and choirs worldwide. Choral and violin training in high school were followed by violin studies at Washington University and the St. Louis Conservatory. Don played professionally at the Muny Opera and Memphis Symphony before leaving the Midwest. He is currently Music Director of Grace Episcopal Church in Middletown where he directs the Adult Choir. He has sung with the Classic Choral Society, Hudson Valley BachFest and the “King’s Stewards”, a madrigal group which he founded.

	James Oppenheimer has been involved in sacred and secular choral music for about fifty years, as a singer and as a choral director, in the United States (including groups in Pittsburgh, PA, Monterey, CA and in Dutchess County, NY) and in Germany, including the Johannischer Chor of Berlin. Jim has also had extensive amateur experience in choral and instrumental aspects of early music. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Christine in a home owned by four cats.

	Michael Saunders is an avid singer who has performed, both as chorus member and soloist, with most of the choral groups of the mid-Hudson valley at one time or another over the last two decades. In addition to Kairos, Mike has sung with Cappella Festiva, the Halcyon Singers, the Kartuli Ensemble, the Orange County Classic Choral Society, the SUNY New Paltz College-Community Chorale, the Warwick Valley Chorale, the Bard Music Festival, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Hudson Valley Bach Festival, and the Warwick Music Festival. He is also a veteran of ten light opera productions with G&SMTC. When he isn't singing, Mike is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

	Peter Sipple an Episcopal clergyman, headed three Church-related independent schools before "retiring" to parish ministry ten years ago. Singing and choral directing have exerted a strong avocational pull since college, where Peter sang in the Yale Glee Club and Whiffenpoofs. While in graduate school, he served as assistant director of the U.C. Berkeley undergraduate choral groups. In different parts of the U.S. he and his wife Margaret helped establish, and Peter directed, three "chamber-sized" choral groups with repertoire drawn from the Renaissance and 19th and 20th centuries. They have also sung in larger ensembles, most recently the Philadelphia Singers Chorale (which performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra). Peter plays the clarinet and has written small compositions for church choirs. He loves making music and is delighted to be doing so with Kairos. Peter currently serves as President of Kairos.