ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The Fall 2010 season welcomes Guest Artistic Director CHRIS THOMAS while current Director Marclea Molina is on leave. Chris came to Tucson from Illinois where he served as artistic director and conductor of the ninety-voice Greatur-Decatur Chorale, conducted choirs at Westminster Presbyterian Church and Memorial Presbyterian Church, and was on the choral faculty in the Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit School District. Chris is an active member of American Choral Directors Association, College Music Society and Music Educators National Conference, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator.

MARCELA MOLINA

A native of Bogota, Colombia, Marcela Molina has completed her doctoral studies in choral conducting at the University of Arizona. She holds a master’s degree in choral conducting and a bachelor's degree in theory and composition from the University of Arizona and Westminster Choir College, respectively. Ms. Molina has studied under the tutelage of Drs. Bruce Chamberlain, Elizabeth Schauer, James Jordan, Andrew Megill, and Professor Allan Crowell.

Her career includes joint performances as a singer with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and New York Philarmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, New Jersery Symphony Orchestra and the St.Luke Symphony Orchestra. In the fall of 2005, she contributed four articles to the upcoming book Teaching through Performance in Choir, Volume 2. From 2003-2006, Ms. Molina was the assistant conductor of the prestigious Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, and is currently artistic director of the Tucson Girls Chorus as well as director of Tucson Masterworks Chorale.