Diane Jones  

Diane Jones is a co-founder of the Chorus and has served as co-director and accompanist in addition to her current roles as Artistic Director. She holds an MLA from Western Maryland College and a BME from Houghton College, Houghton, NY. Her professional experience includes twenty-five years in music education at the elementary, middle , high school and college levels in New York State and Maryland. She maintains a private piano studio in addition to her work with the Chorus. She has taken young singers to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden (2004), participated in the “12th International Children’s Choir Festival” in Oxford, Canterbury, and London (2008). She and three Chorus members participated in the “Estonian Song Festival,” July, 2009.In 2011, twenty singers traveled to England for “The Children’s Choir Festival in Canterbury & Westminster.” Currently, she is the Director of Les Petites Voix.

Julie (Hollenberg) Richard  

Julie (Hollenberg) Richard is the director of the Il Choro Della Bella Voce. She received her BA degree in music education from Bridgewater College, and a Master of Music degree from James Madison University. She earned her Orff/Dalcroze/ Kodaly Certification from Towson University, and has completed the rigorous and highly competitive process of becoming a National Board Certified Teacher. Mrs. Richard is currently the choral music instructor and Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair at Westminster High School following a highly successful 19-year career at Hampstead Elementary. In addition, she is one of the choir directors at the Westminster Church of the Brethren.  

Rachel Morgan