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Kirsten Sharer

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Kirsten Shearer 
can't remember a time in her life when she wasn't singing. Beginning with the Colorado Children's Chorale at age 8, she has sung in choirs from large ensembles to small a cappella groups, classical to modern folk styles. She sang in the University of Vermont's Catamount Choir as section leader and soloist, several Finnish symphony choirs and folk ensembles, and the Bach Choir and Santa Rosa State chamber choir. She has been a paid section leader and soloist for various church choirs. She sang with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra Chorus for 5 years, she was part of the "Silence and Music” debut and is a charter member of Voices of Light. Kirsten is an interior designer and enjoys life with her husband John and "blond bomber” dog  Luna.

Misty Dupuis

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Misty L. Dupuis is the music director at St. Barnabas Episcopal Parish in Denver and is the founder and artistic director of La Musica di Donne Chamber choir, a choir dedicated to the performance, preservation, and promotion of the work of women composers. Misty earned a master of music in choral conducting from the University of Colorado. She also earned bachelor's degrees in music and composition from Metropolitan State University of Denver where, in the fall of 2019, she will serve as chorus master for the school's production of the Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda. Misty is an active composer published by Hal Leonard. She has sung locally with the Colorado Symphony Chorus, First Universalist Singers, First Universalist Chamber Choir, St. Andrew's Episcopal choir, Denver Pro Chorale, and Saint Martin's Festival Singers.

Melissa Fathman

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Equally at home on the opera stage, concert halls and clubs, Melissa Fathman has performed in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, BAM—the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, Joe's Pub, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage as part of the “Artists for Creative Time” series, The Aspen Music Festival, The Banff Centre, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera Midwest Regional Auditions and the Aspen Music Festival's Vocal Concerto Competition, Melissa received her Master of Music in vocal performance at Indiana University where she met her husband Matt Pass while singing in Jan Harrington’s Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. Melissa has been featured in a number of recordings including a commercial spot for Nickelodeon's "Snick" and the celestial voices in the Hayden Planetarium space show The Search for Life: Are We Alone? narrated by Harrison Ford. In addition to singing, Melissa has developed and performed in many children’s educational projects for the Children's Museum of Manhattan, the Bronx Zoo, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Kyoko Markovsky

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Kyoko Makovsky is a general music teacher at Polton Community Elementary in Cherry Creek School District. She holds a Master of Education degree with a Special Education emphasis from Regis University in addition to a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Kyoko has a passion for choral music and has sung with the Augustana Lutheran Chancel Choir, St. Martin's Festival Singers and the Colorado Chorale. She is thrilled to be singing this concert with Voices of Light. ​


Lorena Perry

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Named for an antebellum song on a Mormon Tabernacle Choir LP, it is fitting that Lorena delights in the choral arts. She sang for the Mormon Youth Chorus and Symphony in Salt Lake City’s historic tabernacle for a season and recorded Eric Whitacre’s first choral CD release, “The Complete A Capella Works,” with the BYU Singers in her hometown, Provo, UT. Singing Ein deutsches Requiem at Chautauqua with the Colorado Music Festival began a Colorado choral adventure that has included a decade in total of singing and soloing with Kantorei and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. Other highlights include Aida with the Colorado Symphony Chorus at the Aspen Music Festival, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra and Handel’s Chandos Anthems with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Lorena is founder & director of the Castle Rock Children’s Choir program, plays violin for the Castle Rock Orchestra, teaches dance classes, and manages a large studio teaching voice, violin, viola, cello, guitar, piano and summer theater and fiddle camps. She is an avid skier, dancer, gardener, gifted education advisor, community service outreach coordinator, poet and songwriter. Her magnum opus, raising four Colorado native children with her husband, Scott, is her favorite work in progress, and it supplies much gaudium et lætitiam.

Wendy Cromley

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Singing has always been part of Colorado native Wendy Cromley’s life, and harmonizing is her passion. She holds music degrees from Western State Colorado University and the University of Northern Colorado, where she studied classical and jazz vocal performance. In college she enjoyed singing in concert choirs, madrigal groups, jazz ensembles, and a cappella groups. After college she devoted eleven years to the nationally touring vocal jazz octet Pieces of 8, releasing four albums. She sang and arranged for three years and one album with Denver’s 5280 A Cappella, and now enjoys singing/soloing with the choirs at First Universalist Church. Her business Wend Blend Music spotlights Wendy’s voice teaching, solo vocal work, arranging, and groups she sings in for hire such as the jazz/blues band Freestyle and the a cappella quartet Euphony.




Becky Dillon

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Becky Dillon is a Colorado Native with a degree in Vocal Performance from Kansas State University. Most of her vocal adventures have been in the realm of Musical Theatre.   Before it's final season in 2008, Becky was a performer at The Crystal Palace Theatre Restaurant in Aspen where she sang political satire and cabaret. She is excited to return to the world of Choral Music after a decade long hiatus. She wishes to thank her husband Tony for his love and support.


MJ Erickson-Eger

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ALTO/Board Secretary

MJ Erickson-Eger has found joy in expression through music and singing since young childhood. MJ has sung with a variety of choirs, including close harmony, madrigals, church choirs, and the Houston Symphony Chorale. Additionally, MJ has served as accompanist for choral groups and soloists since the age of eleven.  She toured with the Dartmouth College Glee Clubs in this capacity, and is currently accompanist for Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church.  MJ is a former school psychologist and now works in autism research.  She lives with her husband George and is the proud mom of their three amazing daughters.



Kendall Bridges

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Kendall Bridges teaches middle school chorus and strings in Adams County District 14.  In addition to Voices of Light Chamber Choir, he is an active singer and board member of the Colorado Chorale and sings tenor in a local quartet: The Bear Tones. His previous experiences have included serving as Minister of Music at Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, CA, assistant conductor for various concerts and a guest appearance with the Community College of Aurora. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado's Music Education Program.


J Ronald DeVries

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TENOR/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ron DeVries joined Voices of Light in its inaugural concert season having returned to his home in Colorado after five years in Arizona where he performed with several groups in Tucson, most notably the Arizona Repertory Singers, and having directed the Mohave Community Choir in Kingman, AZ.  While having no formal music education, Ron was coached by his mother, Marilyn Knox, an experienced performer and music educator.  Ron has performed with large groups like the Colorado Symphony Chorus and the Turtle Creek Chorale under the direction of Timothy Seelig, to small groups including Canto Spiritus, Awen Rising, and Bel-Canto, a choir Ron started with his college  choir director, Sharyn Baker.  He has been a featured vocal soloist with the John Philip Sousa Band of Colorado where he played clarinet as well as the Mile High Freedom Swing band as a featured vocal soloist and on keyboards.  He has sung with Opera Fort Collins, the Estes Park Oratorio Society as a featured soloist, the Littleton Chorale, the Cherry Creek Chorale, the Colorado Chorale, and Kantorei.

Corey Rheault

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My singing adventure began when my parents needed to have their Tuesday and Thursday evenings free for bowling league. They enrolled me in the Red River Boys Choir in Fargo North Dakota when I was 6 years old, and the rest is history. Since then I have been singing in choirs or small groups whenever I can.  I grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota and spent most of my childhood through high school singing in school choir and church choir.  I spent 9 summers doing musical theater with the Gooseberry Park Players, a children's theater group for kids from 4th grade through high school.  I was a member of my high school's first chamber choir when I was a senior, which was experimental that first year and was picked up as regular curriculum afterwards.  It opened my eyes to more challenging choral music. I attended college at Concordia in Moorhead Minnesota, and sang in various choirs and small groups throughout my time there, working under many great professors including Rene Clausen.  
         I never quite grasped music theory, however, and changed my major after my first year of studies from music to classical studies.  I received the best advice from Dr. Clausen after doing this; he told me that not everyone is destined to have a life in music but everyone deserves to have music in their life, and I have lived by that statement ever since.  I continue to sing wherever and whenever I can.  I have spent the last 6 years singing with the Colorado Chorale, and sing in 3 different choirs at church.  I am looking forward to the opportunity of singing with Voices of Light, and I am looking forward to the next 20 years of my life, sharing the choral music experience with anyone and everyone wherever I may go.​

Joel Chirhart

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Since moving to Colorado 20 years ago, Joel Chirhart has been a staple of The Colorado Chorale, performing numerous solos and roles with this musically diverse group.  Joel has also performed as a soloist and section leader with numerous Denver organizations including Central Presbyterian Church, High Plains Chorale, the Arvada Chorale, and appeared as King Ahasuerus in “Esther” at Cherry Creek Presbyterian. When not singing, Joel works as a GIS Business Analyst, and is the proprietor of Colorado Haunted History Tours in Golden and Morrison, CO.

Matt Pass

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Matt Pass has been singing for four decades, focusing his tones on Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary Classical and Electroacoustic music, in places such as the Cloisters in NY, Recital halls of Bloomington Indiana, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, inside the Brooklyn Bridge, and on top of Old Smokey.
 
These days Matt spends chunks of time shaping sounds through pedal electronics and homemade instruments, improvising in solo, duo and trio sound collectives. Matt also creates sound installations that accompany artwork, exploring the interaction between sound, physical materials and the observer/participant's resonance with the space around them and within.

Philip Drozda

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Philip Drozda is the Director of Choirs at Overland High School in Aurora, CO. In this role he works to teach and inspire young people to make beautiful things. Prior to joining the Overland faculty, he taught middle school choir for twelve years at Mesa Middle School, Northglenn Middle School, and from 2011-2019 at Prairie Middle School in the Cherry Creek School District. He holds a Master of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado in addition to a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
            During his tenure at Prairie, Mr. Drozda's choirs gained a reputation for musical quality and passionate, joyful performance, and were invited to perform at the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic and Conference three times in the span of five years. In 2017, he was honored as Prairie’s Teacher of the Year in his first year of eligibility. Mr. Drozda has also been actively involved in choral music at the state level. He has served on the board of Colorado ACDA in a variety of roles and is currently the Multicultural Repertoire and Resources chair. He is one of the founding Co-Chairs of the Colorado Middle All State Choir Governing Board and he continues to advise that organization. As a singer, Mr. Drozda sings in the Voices of Light Chamber Choir and is a tenor section leader in the Denver Choir League. He resides in Denver and is proud to be a public school music teacher in the state of Colorado. 


David Burrows

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David Burrows is the Music Director for the Smithtonians, a community handbell choir, and for Niwot United Methodist Church in Longmont, CO. He has conducted choirs since 2002. David authored several children’s musicals that were performed in Denver and around the country in Universalist Unitarian Churches.  He was recognized as a hymn composer in the 2014 & 2018 Silliman Anthem Competitions and awarded as a Vocalist singing Debussy’s “Beau Soir”  in the 2006 Vocal Arts Competition at Metropolitan State University.  He has a degree in Voice with additional studies in piano. He attended a graduate seminar on Choral Conducting and Literature at CU Boulder.   He serves as a therapeutic musician in healthcare settings, serving also as a licensed massage therapist.  As a choral singer and Baritone soloist, he has appeared with Evergreen Chorale, Arvada Chorale, Gospel Expressions and One World Singers.  As well, he has been a featured saxophonist/flutist with choirs.  He has been a guest teacher and musician in India at a school for indigenous children several times since 2011.  In 2018, he toured California  co-presenting contemplative music services in churches.  Voices of Light sings his favorite type of choral repertoire and he loves being in the group. 

Keith Williamson

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Keith Williamson, a Colorado native, is a twenty-three-year veteran of the Opera Colorado chorus, and sang for twenty-one years with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra Chorus.  Mr Williamson has also performed solo roles in several Opera Colorado productions, including Gianni Schicci, Macbeth, Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Seville and Don Pasquale.  In addition, Mr. Williamson has performed regionally in staged productions of Copeland (The Tender Land), Menotti, (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Purcell (Dido & Aeneas).  His solo concert repertoire includes both Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiems, Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions and Orff’s Carmina Burana.  He performed in the 2004 regional premier of Tan Dun’s Water Passion, conducted by the composer.  Since 1995, Keith has performed annually in a Madrigal Dinner production, in which he portrays the Lord of the manor.  Keith has also performed Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Menotti’s The Telephone, and Purcell’s La Serva Padrona with the Walden Chamber Music Society of Colorado. 
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Keith has his degree in Nursery and Landscape Management from CSU and works for Little Valley Wholesale Nursery in Brighton, Colorado.

Scott Isaacs

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Scott Isaacs has been singing in choirs throughout his life. At the age of 11, he traveled with Sounds of Children from Colorado to Taiwan on a choral goodwill trip. As a high school singer, he was the tenor section leader for two choirs and participated in all-state choir twice. After high school, Scott attended St. Olaf College, particularly enjoying his experiences with St. Olaf Cantorei, Russian Choir, and Early Music Singers. Recent choral experiences have included singing with the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus, Sine Nomine, and Colorado Chorale. He has especially enjoyed traveling with Kantorei on a choral tour of central Europe and as part of the Aspen Music Festival in a massed choir accompanying Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. He has also enjoyed singing with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado on performances of Dido and Aeneas and Venus and Adonis. Scott is the immediate past academic director and pronouncer for Spelling Bee of China, and currently works as a spelling bee and general academic coach in Denver and across the country.

Jason Golden

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Jason Golden has a lifelong passion for the choral arts at the highest level. While he’s a software consultant by day, at night singing provides balance and engages the other side of his brain. Jason holds his minor in music from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, where he sang with the Adelphian Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers (now Voci d'Amici), and Underground Jazz. Other choral experience includes the Northwest Repertory Singers and Cherry Creek Chorale. When not singing the lowest notes on the staff, he thoroughly enjoys wine, photography, exercise, reading history and spending time with his family.

Bradley Becker

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Bradley Becker has been with Voices of Light since 2017 and loves performing with them. He graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Physics and a minor in Music and hopes to eventually pursue graduate school. Though he is a structural design engineer by profession, Bradley remains active the music community of Denver. Outside of VoL, he is the bass for 5280 Acappella, sings with the Evans Choir and has had the opportunity to be in the chorus for the Colorado Ballet.


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