Board & Staff
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Joe Marchio
Musical Direction, Music Director, Board of Directors
Joe is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Yale University Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Boston Conservatory. He has also pursued additional studies in organ and conducting at Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to directing the Chorale, Joe is on the staff of the First Congregational Church of Chatham, and teaches at Cape Cod Community College. He and his wife, Sarah (an accomplished piper), and their children, Thomas, Christopher, and Rachel, live in South Harwich.
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Donald Enos
Musical Direction, Accompanist
Donald is the Music Director of South Congregational Church in Dennis, where he doubles as curator of its 1762 Snetzler English chamber organ, the oldest pipe organ on the Cape. He is the founding Director of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival, completing 50 seasons to date. Donald also recently retired as The Wesley DeLacy Chair Keyboardist of the Cape Cod Symphony, with whom he performed for over 40 years. A Cape Cod native who earned two degrees in performance at New England Conservatory, he and his wife live in Brewster. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.
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Margaret Bossi
Musical Direction, Director Emerita
Maggie retired in 2010 after 24 years as Director of the Chatham Chorale. She is currently Choir Director and Organist at Dennis Union Church. She and husband Arnold are sharing their house with their older son, his wife, and granddaughter, Tallulah.
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Mary Ann Anthony
Soprano, Chamber Singers
Mary Ann has sung in church choirs in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, and with the Westfield Festival Chorus, the New Valley Singers in Springfield, and the Chorus of Westerly, Rhode Island. She is retired from a long career administering child care programs for KinderCare and Mulberry Child Care Centers in Massachusetts, and for Catholic Charities in Boston. After 19 years of commuting to Boston, she retired in 2015. She and husband Bob joined the Chorale in 2006, and enjoyed singing together until his death in 2022. She has two sons, one living on the Cape, as do her two grandsons and their families. Her second son lives in Florida with his family and her granddaughter. Mary Ann is the proud “Grammy” to three great-grands: Liz, Paul and Zoey!
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Katherine Atwater
Soprano, Press Releases, Group Ticket Sales
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Cindy Benson
Soprano, Chamber Singers
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Cindy Doutrich
Soprano, Mailings Coordinator
Cindy grew up in Pennsylvania, where she sang in the church choir and in the junior and senior high chorus. She earned her post-secondary degrees from Penn State – B.S. and M.A. in Spanish, M.Ed. in Counseling, and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. In 2018, Cindy and her husband, Paul, retired from teaching at York College of PA. and moved to Brewster. Cindy is a Stephen Minister at First Congregational Church in Chatham and a member of P.E.O., a Philanthropic Educational Organization. She also teaches a senior exercise class at the Brewster C.O.A. and volunteers with the Brewster Pond Coalition. In addition to singing, Cindy enjoys traveling with Paul, getting together with friends, reading, hiking, and water aerobics. She has three adult sons, two adult stepchildren, and six grandchildren.
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Brooke Duff
Soprano, Chamber Singers
Brooke has sung in various select choirs and participated in theater, attending Cod Lighthouse Charter School under Music Director Emerita, Margaret Bossi, Nauset High School studying with Allison Beavan and Cape Cod Community College studying under Joe Marchio. She went on to earn her BA in Vocal Performance from Bridgewater State University. Brooke is a local native who works for the Cape Symphony and lives in Brewster with her husband.
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Brennan Finnegan
Soprano, Chamber Singers
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Barbara Howerton
Soprano
Barbara has a life-long interest in singing, piano, and choral arranging and composition. Barbara sang for 10+ years with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, in Boston chamber groups such as the Seraphim Singers, and in both soprano and alto roles in small choral and solo events professionally. Other interests include house and clothing design. Doubly retired from behavioral neurology research at BU Medical School and teaching psychology, she enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren.
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Jennifer Kangas
Soprano
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Diana Landau
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Press Releases
Diana sang for 18 seasons with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Among many highlights were a semi-staged performance of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, recorded for PBS, and a St. Matthew Passion with Peter Schreirer as the Evangelist. While in the Bay area, she also was a member of the choir of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church and a community opera company, Goat Hill Productions. Since moving to the Cape with husband Greg DeLory, a native son, she has sung with church choirs, Cape Cod Opera, and Eventide Arts. A freelance writer and editor, she is active with environmental groups and loves being a step-parent/grandparent.
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Larasa McMakin
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Facebook/Instagram Administrator
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Theresa Moreau
Soprano, Chamber Singers
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Jayne Mullen-Sampson
Soprano
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Anita Nicoll
Soprano
Anita grew up as the daughter of a Protestant pastor and a school teacher. At home and at church, singing was a significant and valued part of her life. She often was called upon to sing in quartets with her siblings and sometimes with the addition of parents in worship. She sang with the Manchester, CT high school chorus and select chorus, and has participated in several church choirs and bell choirs in various parts of the country over the years. She presently sings with the choir at the First Congregational Church in Chatham (6years). In addition to singing, she enjoys traveling with her husband Neil, and their family. She has three awesome grandchildren.
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Cindy O’Leary
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Membership Chair, Auditions Coordinator
Cindy sang with the international cast of Up With People Singers. She was raised in Ft. Worth, but since the early 70’s has made her way around the country, following her husband’s work with Hartford Financial Services. Over the past 50 years, she has participated in college and community choruses in CO, MN and IL, community theater in NE and CT, and church choirs from CA to MA. Brewster has been home since 2010. She has two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
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Rosa Pimenta
Soprano
Rosa comes from a musical family. She was trained in art education, and has been an art educator at all grade levels. During October 2009, she was part of an exhibition called “Art in Harmony” at Cape Cod Conservatory in Barnstable, and recently exhibited at the Cape Cod Cultural Center in Yarmouth. She also currently sings in her church choir and is taking cello lessons.
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Gina Poole
Soprano, Chamber Singers
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Martha Rockwell
Soprano
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Eileen Roth
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Music Librarian, Soprano Section Leader
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Marilyn Schlansky
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Grants Coordinator, Development Committee
Marilyn was a voice major at the High School of Musical Arts in NYC, sang in her College chorus, was musical counselor at summer camps, and sang for 15 years in the Putnam (County NY) Chorale. She has been married to husband Paul for over 50 years. They have two grown children and four grandchildren. She is retired from work as a Public Library Director. She has traveled to all seven continents and over 100 countries.
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Katy Sherer
Soprano, President-Elect, Board of Directors, Chamber Singers, Contracts Chair
Katy has been a member of a chorus somewhere in almost every year since the age of twelve; most recently Femina Melodia, a 20-25 voice women’s group based in Southbury, CT. Earlier groups include the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicam, Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Yale Collegium, Cornell Chorale and the Connecticut Choral Society. Katy is a lawyer who provides legal support to publicly traded companies on a fully remote, part-time basis. She and her husband Frank moved to Chatham after their daughter Emily finished high school mid-2023. In addition to Emily, Katy has four adult stepchildren (one in Chatham) and ten grandchildren (five in Chatham).
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Marilyn Sink
Soprano, Chamber Singers
Marilyn recently retired from 35 years of teaching music in Vermont, where she also ran a summer music camp called Summer Stage, conducted a handbell and church choir, played with a community handbell group called Northern Bronze, and was a Taiko drummer for seven years. She now conducts the handbell choir at First Congregational Church in Chatham, and plays with the handbell group at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Harwichport.
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Nancy Sveden
Soprano
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Margaret Tyndale-Biscoe
Soprano, Chamber Singers
Margaret’s most recent choral experience has been singing for the past ten years in Polyhymnia, an a cappella chamber chorus in Washington, D.C. Before that, while living in the Boston area, she sang with the Brookline Chorus. She has sung in church choirs and other ensembles in the various countries where she has lived. A retired college professor in international affairs, teaching most recently at American University in Washington, D.C., she earned her Ph.D. from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. In 2018 she took a new master’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge in clinical mental health counseling. She bought her home in Yarmouth Port in 2010, and in 2019 was very delighted when she and Philip, whom she had known from her teenage years, were married in Yarmouth. They maintain an apartment in D.C. but are spending increasing amounts of time at the Cape.
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Deb Watson
Soprano, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Clerk
Beginning with church choirs and the Smith College Glee Club, Deb has performed and recorded with groups ranging from the Seattle Symphony and Bach Chorale, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the New York Grand Opera Chorus to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. Following a 30+ year in corporate and multinational banking, she attended culinary school and worked as a caterer and private chef. Deb has served on several boards including Pacific Northwest Ballet, National Assn of Corporate Directors NW and the Seattle Arts Fund. She has circumnavigated the globe through business and personal travel, and recently retired to Chatham. Deb has two daughters.
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Kathy Wimberly
Soprano, New Member Mentor Chair
Kathy began singing in church choir, sang with the Akron Symphony Chorus for 15 years, as well as with Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Cape Cod Opera. She has five grown children. She home-schooled her children through elementary school, and now, with her husband, operates a property maintenance company, Beautiful Home of Cape Cod. She helps lead worship at First Light Church in Chatham.
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Pat Antonucci
Alto
Music has always been a part of Pat’s life, beginning with a children’s choir and continuing through high school years in the chorus, community minstrel shows and a barbershop quartet. She sang with church choirs in western MA over the years and became a founding member of The Hartford’s Chorale in Simsbury, CT. After 23 years with The Hartford as an Education Consultant, Pat retired and moved to Chatham with her husband in 2006. She soon discovered the joy of music on the Cape, singing with the Holy Redeemer Church Choir, Pleasant Bay Camerata, Mid-Cape Chorus, Pilgrim Pops and now happily, with the Chorale. She loves traveling and spending time with her three daughters and their families in TX and MA.
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Laura Baksa
Alto
Laura has worked for more than 30 years as a graphic artist for Cape Cod newspapers, including most recently The Cape Cod Times. She grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York and spent seven years pursuing a sculpture career in NYC after graduating from Sweet Briar College. She now lives in Brewster with partner, Joan Kirchner, and has a grown daughter. She sings with the choir at First Parish Brewster and designs marble mosaic water features.
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Laura Barabe
Alto, Chamber Singers
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Geraldine Boles
Alto, Chamber Singers
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Cherie Bryan
Alto, Chamber Singers
Cherie has participated in church choirs and community choruses all her life. She consults with libraries and teaches workshops state-wide, but still finds time for gardening, reading and swimming. She and Chorale husband David have two grown sons, Galen and Liam.
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Barbara Cole
Alto, Musician Housing
Barbara is an original member of the Chatham Chorale (1970). She took a few years off while teaching and raising 3 girls, but has sung for 36 seasons. She began singing in the madrigal group at Classical HS (Springfield MA), then in musical theater at UMass Amherst (BA in piano performance), before teaching K/1 in D-Y system for 28 years. She and husband Douglas (married 49 years), have 5 grandchildren. She volunteers at Cape Rep Theater in Brewster, and is a movie buff.
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Connie Crawford
Alto
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Liz Cross
Alto
Liz graduated from Springfield College. She has appeared in over fifty theater productions. She sang with the New London Chorale, Coast Guard Academy Chorale, Opera Potpourri and Pfizer Players. She was Assistant to the Director of Cadet Musical Activities (Coast Guard Academy) for many years. She has worked at banking, publishing, and school administration. Liz has received four awards for theater excellence from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Coast Guard Academy, and New London Day Newspaper. She has two daughters and five grandchildren.
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Mary Donahue
Alto
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Aubrey Egan
Alto
Aubrey loves to make a joyful noise and sing with special vocal ensembles-especially those that embody prayer. Lifting voices lifts all beings universally and keeps history alive. Special influencers include Sisters Rosalie and Rosemunde Deck. Other thrills include a duet with Livingston Taylor; “Old Cape Cod” at the Melody Tent; and as a featured soloist and dancer in Fred Waring’s U.S. Chorus at the J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts for President George W. Bush and on P.B.S. A Fun Fact is she was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno! She enjoys supporting the arts on Cape Cod and finds great joy in and is truly thankful for being part of the glorious Chatham Chorale.
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Betsy Ferris
Alto, Chamber Singers, Chamber Singer Section Leader, Former President (2016-2018)
Betsy is a retired librarian. She has enjoyed singing since childhood – around the piano and the campfire – and was delighted to discover the Chatham Chorale when she and husband Bud (Chorale tenor) moved to Cape Cod in 1987. Betsy and Bud lead nature walks at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster. They have three grown children and three grandchildren. Betsy is a member of the Cape Cod Genealogical Society and is always working on her family tree.
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Jamie Forster
Alto
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Ellen Heim
Alto, Chamber Singers
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Clare Hemmenway
Alto
Clare studied at Vassar (Music) and Penn State (choral conducting), where she directed the Penn State Women’s Chorus and the Chamber Chorus. In New Orleans, she directed the Jefferson Symphony Chorus and was music director at several churches. She was chorus teacher at the Waldorf School in Lexington and youth choir director at Trinity Church, Copley Square. She taught music at the Nantucket Elementary School for three years, and now teaches piano at the Bridgeview Montessori School. She has a passion for Renaissance recorders.
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Carole Kanavos
Alto
Carole has sung in choirs in Plymouth, Concord (Vermont), and Cotuit. Her activities include swimming, gardening, photography, and piano. She has three grandchildren.
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Alice Kelley
Alto, Board of Directors, Alto Section Leader, Sunshine Chair, Proofreading Chair
Since playing Yum-Yum in my high school ‘Mikado’, singing has always been a joy of my life. I toured Europe with the Smith-Princeton Chamber Singers while in college and, while at Penn (twenty-five years as an English professor, fifteen as a dean of advising), I sang in St. David’s church choir in Radnor, Pennsylvania, until I became a Quaker and formal singing disappeared from my life. Hurrah, then, for the Chatham Chorale, which I joined in 2012 when I retired to the Cape, my childhood territory. I am married to a man who works non-stop and have two grown sons and two wee grandsons.
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Mitzi Krueger
Alto, Mail Chimp Administrator
Mitzi sang with the Longmont Chorale and the Star House Ensemble in Colorado. After returning to the Cape, she sang with the Cape Cod Chorale, New Cape Singers, and the Cape Cod Opera. Growing up among many cousins, her life was filled with singing – a family pasttime. Her mother, Chunna Broidrick, sang with the Chatham Chorale in the 1990s, and her cousin, Anne Seeley, sang with the Chorale until 2018. Mitzi is a librarian, currently working at the Barnstable Law Library, and is involved in the State’s Access to Justice advocacy programs. She has a grown son and a daughter, and two adorable Pitbulls.
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Iris Leigh
Alto
Iris has played in bands, studied piano, and sung in choral groups since she was seven. After college she met her husband Bill Leigh, who is also in the Chorale. Together they’ve sung with the Providence Singers, the Heritage Chorale (previously the Framingham Choral Society), the Newton Community Chorus and the Dedham Choral Society. Iris plays glockenspiel in the Chatham Band. She’s a semi-retired Occupational Therapist with a small private practice and teaches part-time in a Community College. Since moving to Chatham in 2014, she’s become a member of the Chatham Chorale. She and Bill have 2 adult children, one of whom is pursuing a career in music and sound design for theater, and 2 grandchildren.
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Faith Little
Alto, Board of Directors, Chamber Singers, Tickets Administrator
Faith moved to Harwichport in August 2017, realizing a long-term dream of living at the Cape. Before she even packed up her boxes, she searched for a Cape chorus to join! She has been singing with chorus groups since childhood; most recently, with the Boston-area Masterworks Chorale (20yrs). Faith lived for many years in Washington, DC, working for a Ralph Nader organization, before moving back to MA to reconnect with her childhood roots. She teaches research methods and social policy at Boston University School of Social Work. When she isn’t driving back and forth to Boston, she enjoys gardening and taking her dogs for long walks on the beach. She volunteers for a beagle rescue organization and always has at least one beagle snoring on the sofa.
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Deborah Mahaney
Alto, President, Board of Directors, Chamber Singers
Deborah (“Deb”) has been singing since age 2 (debuting with “How Much is that Doggie in the Window” in her grandmother’s living room) and is the daughter of a former professional church choir soloist. She has sung in church and college choirs in Washington, DC, Maryland, and New York City; has performed in numerous musicals in NJ and NYC, and sang in the chorus of the Light Opera of Manhattan. She has also directed the Irving Berlin Girl Scout Chorus and church children’s choirs. Deb is a Presbyterian minister (PCUSA) and has been married to Mike for 44 years. Their family includes son, Patrick; daughter, Kathy; son-in-law, Josh and grandson, Matthew.
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Mary Jo Nabywaniec
Alto
Mary Jo earned a music degree at the College of St. Rose in Albany NY. She participated in the Potsdam Music Program at Saratoga, and was a piano teacher for over 30 years. She has sung with various musical groups sized 3 to 30 and was a music teacher with the Troy NY School District. She loves golfing, gardening and knitting. She and husband Ted have a son, daughter and two grandchildren.
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Irene Nelson
Alto, Chamber Singers
Iggy grew up singing in church and school choirs (including Wagner College where she met husband Roger). She sang with Sweet Adelines on Staten Island. She is retired from her work as a teacher of visually impaired children. She and Roger have two grown sons and one granddaughter. Her hobbies include: Mah Jongg, cross country skiing, Scrabble, NYT crossword puzzle, baking, and writing her memoirs. This year she also took on the challenge of playing Miss Reardon in the Chatham Drama Guild production of ‘And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little’.
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Kathy Olsen
Alto
Kathy is retired from doing pastry work, being a draftsperson, and working as a massage therapist. She still makes the occasional wedding or birthday cake for friends. Now her time is spent acting on behalf of her Quaker Meeting, designing houses, and singing wherever she can. She shares her Eastham home with her grown son, Joel Hesketh.
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Leslie Roselli
Alto, Board of Directors, Scholarship Chair, Archives Chair, Chamber Singers
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Judy Ryon
Alto
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Mim Selig
Alto, Proofreading Committee
Mim has sung with the Framingham Choral Society, the A Cappella Singers, and the Newton Choral Society. She currently sings with the NoteAbles, and Common Voices, an all women’s chorus which learns everything by rote. She is a veteran of 25 plus summers with the Berkshire Choral Festival. She and husband Peter, deceased (formerly a Chorale bass), have three grown children and four grandchildren. Mim is retired from previous careers as a remedial reading teacher and as a dental hygienist.
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Barbara Semple
Alto, Chamber Singers
Barbara began singing in choruses in high school and at Elmira College. She also sang with an a cappella group, The Twelmirans. While living in New Hampshire she sang with the Twin Rivers Chorale and for 34 years with the Concord Chorale. She was an alto with small groups, The Conchords and The Concord Vocal Octet. In her retirement she enjoys kayaking, sailing, biking and water aerobics. She is also active at the Atwood House in Chatham. Barbara is a retired children’s librarian, married, and has two grown children.
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Lyn Solomon
Alto, Board of Directors
Lyn moved to South Dennis from upstate New York where she was a member of the Genesee Chorale in Batavia. She sang with the Allegheny College Choir for four years (including one concert under Randall Thompson). She has sung with church choirs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. She is a retired health and safety specialist, and enjoys photography, golf, and knitting. She and husband Len have two grown daughters and one granddaughter.
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Christine Vancisin
Alto, Hospitality Chair
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Bud Ferris
Tenor, Chamber Singers, Concert record-keeper, Former President
Bud has sung throughout his life: musical theater, church choirs, community theater and choruses, and the Worcester County Light Opera Company. He is a retired superintendent of schools (Maynard and Harwich) and is a past president of the Chatham Chorale. Bud and wife Betsy (Chorale alto) lead nature walks at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster, where Bud also trains volunteers to work as naturalists on field walks and on his favorite activity, Mudflat Mania!
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Karl Fryzel
Tenor, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Concert Production, Stage Manager
Karl is originally from Southeastern Massachusetts and started singing with his high school glee club. As a college undergrad he sang in the Boston College Chorale and the Choir of the London School of Economics. After taking many years off from singing, he began to sing with his parish choir in Winchester, MA where he lived for over 30 years and raised his family. He practiced law in Boston and retired to the Cape in 2018. He joined his church choir in Brewster and the Cape Cod Chorale. He and his wife Patricia have three daughters and five grandchildren.
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Lynn Herbst
Tenor, Chamber Singers, Tenor Section Leader
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Kevin Howard
Tenor, Chamber Singers, Board of Directors, Director of Marketing & Promotion, Grants/Sponsorships
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Ken Joy
Tenor, Chamber Singers
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Ivor MacFarlane
Tenor, Chamber Singers
Ivor was a member of the Action Congregational Church choir for over 30 years. Since moving to the Cape, he has sung with the Pleasant Bay Camerata and with the First Congregational Church, Chatham choir. Ivor enjoys outdoor activities such as biking, kayaking, sailing and “trying” to play golf. He and his wife, Diane, have two daughters and four grandchildren.
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Cal Mutti
Tenor, Member photos
Cal is an Ohio native who has sung in school, college, church, and community choruses his whole life. Ordained as a United Church of Christ/Congregational minister 50 years ago in 1969, he and his wife Karen have lived where Cal served as Pastor in Indiana and Massachusetts. He was recently made Pastor Emeritus in Andover, MA, where he served for 19 years. After retiring to the Cape in 2007 and residing in Brewster, he quickly joined the chorale as a tenor. Cal is a passionate beekeeper, conservationist, and master gardener, teaching in the Lower Cape Children’s Garden. Karen, his wife of 55 years, has served as the House Manager for the Chorale since 2014. They have two adult children who work and live with their families in Cleveland and Austin.
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Walter North
Tenor
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Tom Philips
Tenor, Treasurer, Board of Directors, Member Communications, Past President (July 2018-June 2020)
Tom has been a professor of physics at Carleton College and a Member of the Technical Staff and a Department Head at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He sang in his church choir and with the Bell Laboratories Whippany Chorus and the Morris Choral Society. On Cape Cod he has been a member of the Cape Cod Chorale, We Are the Men, the New Cape Singers, and Pilgrim Pops. He now sings in the Chancel Choir and plays in the handbell choir at the Chatham Congregational Church. Tom and his wife Doris (married 55 years) have three daughters, one grandson, and four granddaughters. His hobbies include genealogy; he has published a record of over 20,000 descendants of his Philips ancestors, who immigrated from Wales in 1755.
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Bob Sommer
Tenor, Chamber Singers
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Bob Williams
Tenor, Chamber Singers
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Rob Anderson
Bass, Board of Directors, Bass Section Leader
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Gordon Bellemer
Bass, Chamber Singers
Gordon currently sings with “We Are the Men” men’s chorus, and the Dennis Union Church choir. He has sung with the Cape Cod Opera chorus. Previously, he was a bass soloist at Rhode Island College. He has performed in many musicals, has sung with the Aberdeen (Scotland) Bach Choir and the choir of St Machars Cathedral in Aberdeen. He teaches at Sturgis Charter HS in Barnstable. He has four children (including a son who sings opera internationally) and two grandchildren.
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Michael Blumfield
Bass
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Ken Bouchard
Bass
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George Coughlin
Bass
George’s music interests began at an early age with his home church choir. Over time he has sung with Boston’s Trinity choir, Chorus Pro Musica, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Berkshire Choral Festival. Now semi-retired from the passenger cruise/travel industry, George continues to enjoy travel and singing.
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John Dolan
Bass
John has sung in church choirs from an early age. Growing up in Boston, his first piano and voice teacher was John Oliver. John sang with the Emmanuel College Choirs and has been involved with community theater. He is currently the Associate Pastor of Our Lady of the Cape Church in Brewster.
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Chris Elliott
Bass, Chamber Singers
Chris and his wife Mary-Beth moved to Chatham full-time in 2024. They have two adult children. He works as a consultant in the medical device industry. Largely self-taught as a brass musician, a vocalist, and an occasional actor, he has played trombone with numerous ensembles, including several years as principal with Symphony Pro Musica. He has sung bass with the Treblemakers, the New World Chorale, and the Back Bay Chorale. He has also performed in several productions with Enter Stage Left Theater as part of the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. Chris holds undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and music and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering and business administration. He is a finisher of nine marathons and a holder of twenty-two US patents.
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James Fulton
Bass
Jim made his living as a trial lawyer in Connecticut for more than 42 years. He and his school teacher wife, Pam, raised twin sons, and in 2019 decided to retire and move to Chatham, where they now reside. Now, in retirement, Jim works as a hospice volunteer, serves on a pastoral care team in the Episcopal Church, and writes and publishes poetry in his spare time.
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John Gregory-Davis
Bass
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Bill Leigh
Bass
Bill grew up in Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University. After singing during college with friends, he joined the Providence Singers for his first choral group, where he met his wife, Iris Leigh, who is also in the Chorale. After moving to Massachusetts, he has sung with the Heritage Chorale (previously the Framingham Choral Society), the Newton Community Chorus and the Dedham Choral Society. Bill spent 45 years in the software industry. He and Iris retired to Chatham in 2014 and joined the Chatham Chorale. They have 2 adult children, one of whom is pursuing a career in music and 2 grandchildren.
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Joe Mongelli
Bass, Chamber Singers
Joe received his Master’s Degree in trumpet performance from Manhattan School of Music. While an undergraduate at New York University, he studied jazz performance with Jimmy Giuffre. He has also studied big band arranging with famous arranger Don Sebesky. Joe has penned over 50 compositions and arrangements. He played professionally in the New York area and in Venezuela before moving to Massachusetts in 1988. Joe performs both classical and jazz music at venues in Metrowest and on Cape Cod. He has sung with the St. Mary’s (Holliston) choir since 2007. He was the Global Director of Benefits at Covidien (now Medtronic) where he worked from 2007 until his recent retirement. Prior to that, he was a partner for many years at Towers Perrin, the HR consulting firm, in Boston.
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Roger Nelson
Bass, Chamber Singers
Roger met Irene 51 years ago in French class at Wagner College, where he and Irene also sang in the a capella choir. He is retired from careers in public relations and school counseling but remains active as Irene’s drama coach. They have two grown sons (one still at home), and one granddaughter, Nora.
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Michel Perrault
Bass
Michel moved to the Cape in 2004, where he sings bass with the Cape Cod Surftones. He studied voice with Robert Honeysucker for two years. Prior to that he founded the New England Philharmonic (NEP), which will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary. The Philharmonic specializes in contemporary music and has won several ASCAP prizes for adventurous programming. Michel joined the Chatham Chorale in 2013 for the joy of singing “serious” music. His wife, Anne Francoise Perrault, is a fine pianist and a master teacher. Their grown children and grandchildren live in Fargo, North Dakota, and Piedmont, California.
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Dave Read
Bass
Big Dave works at Harvey’s Auto Service in North by God Eastham. He played trombone through college, sings now occasionally at St. Peter’s in Osterville. He and his wife have two teenage sons. His hobbies include collecting license plates, bike riding, old cars, and relaxing in his Adirondack chair on warm sunny days, with the newspaper and a Black Russian.
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Gene Sink
Bass, Chamber Singers
Gene recently retired from 30-year career teaching high school English in St Albans, Vermont, and moved to new digs where you can smell the salt air. He has sung in church choirs and participated in community theater. He and wife Marilyn have three grown children.
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Gil Stone
Bass
Gil is a retired healthcare administrator who has been singing in church choirs since his youth. He has performed with the Water Gap Singers (NJ), Mid-Cape Chorus, Pilgrim Pops Chorus, and Camarata of Pleasant Bay Chorus. He has two sons and three grandchildren.
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Philip Tyndale-Biscoe
Bass, Chamber Singers
Philip is an actor (trained in Birmingham, UK), and was married for nearly four decades to a Swedish actress (deceased) with whom he toured internationally with productions of their own creation. He spent six years in India, a couple of years in Africa, and spells in Russia and elsewhere working with an international Christian organization that used theatre and music to disseminate its message. He received a Diploma in Russian language from the Russian Education Center, Moscow and, most recently, for 20+ years he was recording audio books (academic literature, 550+ titles) in Sweden. Apart from a brief period with the Lidingö Chamber Chorale in Stockholm, Philip has little choral experience outside of theatrical productions. He arrived in the US in 2019, when he married Margaret (soprano).
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Ed Whelden
Bass
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Updated: Thu, 22 Jan 2026