Rebecca Lord, DMA – Chorus Master

The Arizona Musicfest Chorus in performance, directed by Maestro Robert Moody, on February 26, 2009.

For a complete list of our 2011 Festival Orchestra personnel, please click on the link below:

2011 Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra

2011 Festival Chorus

Soprano Maureen Baker Paula Barr Kristin Briggs Karen Broaderip Tara Cleveland Tia Coates Teresa Corelli Lynda Elliott Wendy Rose Gould Jenifer Kasten Laura King Haley Kirby Marcy McKee Simone Myara-Dorrough Mindy Nolls Michele Oh Anne Rahman Marge Reiter Reinee Sheffield Lynne Bodman Storms Diane Thornbrugh Valarie Vousden Anne Webb Katherine Wells Kirsten Wolpert

Alto Robbie Brada Ruth Buck Erin Calata Nicole Colby Lynn Copes Deborah DeSimone Carol Dodd Betty Erickson Mandy Fried Judith Fulghum Beth Livingston Hakes Midge Holly Jan Hulin Anne Morrissey Kim Newbury Jean O’Donnell Ellen Patera Robyn Rocklein Susan Rouleau Nancy Schamadan Jan Snesrud Jean Thomasson Lynne Traverse Jane Turner Laura Valenzuela Valerie Voigt Stephanie Wilbanks

Tenor Denny Coiro Steve Donohue Frank Fanning Robert Goulstone Mike Hegeman Dave Hulin Lynne Jech Dennis Johnson James Jones Jerron Jorgensen Tim Kellar Ryan Keller Ralph Klingensmith Paul Nicosia Ben Ragunton Jared Rogers Steven Spector

Bass Bob Altizer Alex Areno Andres Briggs John Brostrom Tim Bunty John Burritt John Cleveland Daren Croft Gary Dunham Paul Gales Jesse Garcia Greg Garrison Bill Gary David Getts Ron Greene John Halliburton Edwin Hoag Rodney Houston Russ Killip Frank Martinson Harry Phillips Paul Rooker Mark Sims Arlin Snesrud Mario Vazquez John Verani Richard Williams

Chorus Master

Rebecca Lord, DMA, is the Associate Director of Choral Activities at the University of California, Los Angeles. She conducts the 100-voice University Chorus and has created a choral outreach program to serve middle and high school students in the greater Los Angeles area. Rebecca recently completed her MM & DMA studies in conducting under the instruction of Donald Neuen at UCLA. While a graduate student, Rebecca served as the full-time conductor of the UCLA University Chorus and Early Music Ensemble, the co-conductor of the UCLA Chamber Singers and an assistant conductor for the UCLA Chorale. She also conducted the UCLA Symphony and was guest conductor of the Philharmonia for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante featuring guest soloists Professors Guillaume Sutre and Richard O’Neill.

Rebecca was one of five young orchestral conductors selected nationally to participate in the 2011 Atlantic Music Festival. She also recently prepared the choirs for the Los Angeles performances of the international tours of Pandemonium (by the creators of STOMP) & Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. She assistant conducted Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in Columbia, South Carolina.

Equally at home as a violinist, violist, vocalist, actress, and dancer, Rebecca has performed in many locations around the country. As a soprano in Manhattan’s Trinity Wall Street Choir and Bach Vespers Choir, she performed repeatedly as a soloist. Elsewhere, she has soloed in many varied oratorio and concert settings. A member of Actor’s Equity, Rebecca has performed as a professional actress for over fifteen years, including two years in residence with the Tony Award-winning Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. She has performed as a violinist for professional opera, ballet and theatre companies, on tour, and in the recording studio. She has conducted public school choral music in the state of Pennsylvania, and both choral and orchestral music in the state of Utah.

In addition to earning her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in conducting at UCLA, she earned her Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, in vocal performance at Georgia State University and a certificate in acting at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre School. She has also studied extensively at the Eastman School of Music and the Chautauqua Institute. She is currently studying conducting privately with both David Neuen (UCLA) and Kenneth Kiesler (University of Michigan).