"Music has been a life-altering experience for me. 

I love opportunities to help make music come alive for others."

 

Carol holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education, majoring in organ with a minor in voice, and a focus on conducting, coaching, and accompanying, and is certificated in Music Education from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.  She has been fortunate to enjoy a career in music and explore many facets of the music industry in performance, education, ministry,

and therapy.

 

Choral music has been a focal point of study from her earliest experiences in school choirs to singing with the famed Symphonic Choir of Westminster Choir College - the choir-in-residence for major choral works performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC and sought after by other area concert halls.  These marvelous opportunities introduced her to singing with fine conductors such as, Ricardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Robert Shaw, Frauke Haasemann, and Joseph Flummerfelt, and even taking part in the World Premiere of Dave Brubeck's "To Hope!  A Celebration".  Inspired by this excellent training Carol has been conducting and accompanying choirs from the littlest cherubs to our beloved seniors, instrumental ensembles, and congregations on a weekly basis for over thirty-five years, and has found this to be an exhilarating and deeply meaningful experience.

 

Instrumental music has encompassed a wide variety of interests and mastery:

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• Beginning with piano lessons at the age of four and including studies with Sara

Nehman, student of Claudio Arrau, the piano has been Carol's great love and she has

continued to perform, coach and accompany, and maintain a piano studio throughout

her entire career.  

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• Flute and oboe lessons in elementary school led to being the drum major with the

high school marching band, inspiring her to teach elementary and middle-school band

and general music in public and private schools for many years.  

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• Organ lessons as a teen with Bill Fenimore, and college studies with Eugene Roan,

Robert Carwithen, and Joan Lippincott, ignited a passion for such a powerful instrument

and its music.  She has been thrilled to perform on many fine instruments around the

country, and weekly in the Seattle area.  

 

• One more unique instrumental interest was the introduction to handbells under the

direction of Donald Allured.  As a member of his concert choir, Carol was honored to

perform the World Premiere concert of the first seven octave set (C2 - C9) of handbells

by Malmark, notably holding '3-in-hand'.  She has been a clinician of handbell workshops

and festivals, and performs as a solo handbell ringer. 

 

Carol's own children were the impetus of her experience in music education and

directing music theater from pre-school on through high school.  They even provided

musical assistance with the accompaniment of several musicals at The Drew Harvey

Theater in Yelm, WA.  They are living proof of the effects music has in stimulating the mind, as two brilliant young women pursuing higher education with full academic scholarships.  

 

In the Puget Sound area, Carol has been so pleased to find her special niche

~ maintaining a music studio for instruction, coaching/accompanying, and as a collaborative musician and performer

       ~ teaching pipe organ at Holy Names Academy

     ~ as Minister of Music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, Washington

            ~ accompanying the choirs of Jane Addams Middle School and the Cantamus Choir of Seattle Girls Choir

                   ~ sharing gifts of music and healing in elder and hospice communities 

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