Tapestry's Members
Howard started singing seriously
in high school and has been singing ever since. Along the way he had voice
lessons that enabled him, occasionally, to do solo work. Although trained as a
bass/baritone (at times, having sung basso profundo), Howard currently enjoys
singing tenor with Tapestry. He is a family physician with "a great
family, a bunch of hobbies and a love of the outdoors."
A Clinton Native, Margaret began
singing in her church choir and has broadened her singing horizons with the
Utica Community Chorus, The Clinton Community Chorus and the Hamilton College
Oratorio Society. She assists the St. Thomas Episcopal Church choir
(Hamilton) for special festival occasions. Margaret is a Tapestry
Co-founder and sings alto.
Ron, Tapestry's other Co-founder,
has been singing since college days in choruses and quartets in the Midwest as well as locally. He has performed solos
and sung with the choruses of the Utica Community Chorus, the Clinton Community
Chorus and the Hamilton College Oratorio Society. Ron sings both tenor
and counter tenor.
Tom is a Maine native with extensive vocal
experience, starting in a boy's church choir at the age of six. Locally he has
sung at the Earlville Opera House and in the Sherburne Community Chorus and in
the Hamilton College Community Oratorio Society. He has sung at the Saratoga
Performing Arts Center under the direction of Robert Shaw and Eugene Ormandy,
and continues to sing tenor in the Choir of St. Thomas Church, Hamilton, as
well as with Tapestry
Marie grew up in Whitesboro and
graduated from Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam. She studied voice
with Lynn Meyers and was privileged to sing in the 1980 Crane Winter Olympic
Chorus in Lake Placid, NY. She returned to the Utica area and joined
Tapestry's sopranos in the spring of 1991.
Katherine has sung in choirs and
madrigal groups at Wellesley College, Cambridge
University, Princeton
University, and Gaithersburg,
Maryland before coming to Clinton. Here, she has sung with the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society,
Camerata, in the chorus of Scrooge and Oliver, and in St. James' Church
Choir. She joined Tapestry in 1996 and sings alto and second soprano.
Alan received his Bachelor of
Music Degree from SUC at Potsdam, and his Master
of Music Degree from Florida
State University.
In both colleges he performed with select choral groups, opera, and opera
workshops. From 1981 to 1994 he served as Director of the Clinton
Community Chorus. He currently plays trombone in the Utica College
Band. A Tapestry member since 1994, he also sings with the Westminster
Presbyterian Church Choir, and rings in the handbell choir. Alan serves
as Tapestry's Assistant Director.
Dick sings Bass and is Tapestry's
esteemed "Bard." He sang musicals and barbershop as a student at Swarthmore College,
and oratorios in the city chorus of Winnipeg,
Manitoba. Locally he sang with
the Hamilton College Oratorio Society and the Colgate University Chorus. Dick
spends several months each winter in Santa
Fe, NM, where he has
sung with the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus and the Santa Fe Men's Camarata.
A Boonville native, Molly
graduated from Crane
School, SUNY Potsdam
where she participated in the 1980 Winter Olympic Chorus. Molly has sung
with the Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute and, in Germany, with the Duesseldorf
Chamber Ensemble. She presently teaches instrumental music in the Utica
Parochial Schools and sings soprano with Tapestry.
Debbie grew up in Queens,
NY, and studied voice at Smith College
with Dorothy Stahl. She has sung in ensembles of various sizes at both Yale and
Oxford Universities. A member of the English
Department at Colgate, she has also performed with the Earlville Opera House
Summer Savoyards. Debbie was recently married to Thomas Klenck who joined
Tapestry at Christmas 2004 as a guest instrumentalist, playing recorder and
lute.
Ted is a native of Buffalo, NY,
and is an Electronics Engineer. He has played violin with Community
Music School Orchestra of Buffalo and the Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra. Ted
has also played the viol da gamba with the Syracuse Viol Consort, the baritone
sax in various Jazz bands and has sung with Schola Cantorum of Syracuse.
Gail recently returned to Central New York, joining Tapestry's alto section in
2004. She studied voice privately with the late Peter Cavallo of Utica and sang with
"The Continentals" octet and the Utica Opera Guild. Gail was soprano
soloist at First Presbyterian Church, Utica, and
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sewickley,
PA. She presently serves as
Cantor at Grace Church, Waterville.
Jeanne has been involved with
music since kindergarten. She began singing as a teenager, with the Houston
Symphony Opera chorus and the University
of Texas Concert Chorale.
She studied music at Hartt School and the University of Texas and has continued
singing with several choruses, most recently the Ars Choralis, Woodstock, NY
and the Oratorio Society of Charlottesville-Albemarle in Charlottesville,
Virginia. Jeanne composes and arranges choral music in her spare time. She
joined Tapestry as an alto in 2005.
Adger has sung with the Caltech
madrigal singers (without attending Caltech), and Holland Michigan's
Consort of Voices. He has played the violin since the tender age of six, and
recorders since slightly later. A graduate of Princeton
and UCLA in such fascinating yet somehow useless fields as Chinese history and
Slavic linguistics.
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