Lone Star Lyric

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sarah Brindley - President
Executive Assistant, Entrance - Software Consulting | former Singer and Soloist, Bach Society Houston
 

Brooks Christensen

President & Owner, Monk Engineering Inc. | Christensen Concert Series,  Curator | Devoted and frequent Ragtime piano player

 

Jim Elliott

Professional Lighting Designer | formerly Production Manager, Amarillo Civic Center and Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts | Artistic Administrator,  Amarillo Opera | Lighting Designer, Lone Star Lyric

 

Sharon Gurske
Retired Fort Bend ISD Educator | Volunteer with Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Choir and Children's Choir, Living Word Lutheran Church | Primary Reading Specialist Tutor with Lamar CISD

Bob Meehan - Development and Sponsorship Director

Founder and Ideas Guy, Meehan Ideas Group | Consultant, The NuDu TV | (retired) Director of Corporate Programs, Houston Live Stock Show & Rodeo

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Michael Remson - Treasurer

President & CEO |San Diego Youth Symphony | former Executive and Artistic Director, AFA

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Czarina Schocker- Website Administrator

Owner, COMPASSion Music Studio | Mezzo Soprano, Music Educator, and Arts Administrator

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David Wellborn - President-elect

Partner | Prudent Management Associates, Philadelphia, PA | past boards of Harvard Alumni Association and the Glee Club Foundation, Charleston Men's Chorus | Singer in the Houston Symphony Chorus, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Choir, formerly for the Houston Masterworks Chorus | Cat Whisperer

PAST BOARD MEMBERS
Charles Chester
Attorney, Retired United States Air Force

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Bill Haase
Retired Executive Director of Marketing for Mars Inc., Volunteer Board Member Houston Grand Opera Guild, Friends of Mandel Park

 

Roger S. Keele

Co-Founder, Composer, Pianist

Nancy Markeloff

Retired Singer & Actress

 

Kristen Sheils
Attorney at Law

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Oliver Worthington, III

Assistant Professor | Butler University School of Music, Board President | Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition

 

Jeremy Wood

Principal Pianist | First Methodist Church Houston, Music Director & Coach | St. Agnes Academy

ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD

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Lois Alba
Lois Alba Aria Competition
Master Teacher of Voice

Cynthia Clayton
Associate Professor of Voice, University of Houston
Moores School of Music

Roger S. Keele
Opera Faculty, Sam Houston University
Co-Founder, Lone Star Lyric

Sara Nowina
CRJH Theatre Arts, Katy Independent School District, formerly Assistant Stage Manager at Houston Grand Opera

Buck Ross
Edythe Bates Old Professor of Music
Director, Moores Opera Center

Hector Vasquez
Affiliate Artist in Voice, University of Houston
Moores School of Music