Dr. Karlyn债券, 盐湖城本地人, graduated from 沃拉沃拉大学 in 1989 with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance. After earning master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California, she returned to Salt Lake where she taught full-time at Westminster College for twenty-one years and performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, 经常与犹他交响乐团的成员合作. During the past two years—following Westminster’s termination of eight longstanding faculty positions, hers among them—Karlyn taught piano and piano literature at Utah Valley University, 我在国王英语书店当书商, 并成立了Portico MLA:音乐冒险, 文学, 艺术-一个为读者和艺术爱好者提供的学习社区, 哪一款将在今年秋天正式推出. Karlyn has long been interested in interdisciplinary studies in the arts, and last year re-released her 1996 CD A Recital from the World of Jane Austen—this time cast as a documentary recording of a hypothetical concert in Bath, 1816年2月的英格兰, 奥斯汀小说中许多热爱音乐的人物都来过这里. 不工作的时候, Karlyn喜欢与家人和朋友共度时光, walking, hiking, 观鸟(尤其是和父母一起), reading, 看棒球. 在非官方的长假期之后, she is thrilled to be returning to academia and her beloved alma mater, where one of her two sisters and several long-time friends are now colleagues.

布兰登·贝克 is director of the band and wind instrument program at 沃拉沃拉大学, 他自2000年以来一直担任该职位. 以音乐副教授的身份, 他教指挥, 方法类, 低音铜管乐器的私人指导, 同时也是交响乐团的指挥, 风交响曲, 钢带, 及铜管乐团. 

贝克自1981年开始任教, teaching at three academies before joining the faculty at Southern Adventist University for three years from 1997-2000. 而在奥本的奥本复临学院(AAA), 华盛顿, 他最后的学院职位, 他获得了1995年Lowe教学奖的年度教师奖, 由学校的教师和学生投票选出的奖项, and was listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers in 1992 and 1996. 他在AAA的乐团获得了许多奖项和荣誉, including invitational performances at the 1987 Western 国际 Band Clinic, 1990年在印第安纳波利斯举行的大会, and the 1993 annual meeting of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.

His band at AAA consistently received superior ratings in contests run by the local Pierce County League of Music Educators, achieving the highest score for bands four out of the five times they participated. It also won the Small Schools Division of the Lewis and Clark College 1996 Northwest Invitational Band Contest. 

Beck has served as a band clinician for high school and elementary band clinics or honor bands in Florida, 田纳西州, 伊利诺斯州, Oregon, 和华盛顿. He has directed the Oregon Music Educators Association’s District 6 Honor Band at Pendleton High School, and directs the 沃拉沃拉大学 Honor Band Festival every other year.

Beck completed a Bachelor of Music degree in music education at 沃拉沃拉大学, 大四时担任大学乐队助理指挥. 低音长号手, he studied with Lloyd Leno at 沃拉沃拉大学 and with Paul Bauer, 利昂·布朗, 以及北德克萨斯大学的罗伊斯·兰普金, 他在哪里完成了额外的本科学习. He completed a master’s degree at Vandercook College of Music in 1988 where he continued his bass trombone studies with Roger Rocco.

Dr. 克里斯汀·贾尼斯自1999年以来一直在沃拉沃拉大学任教. 她在WWU的职责包括培训声音专业的学生和未成年人, 教学理论一, 听力训练I, 音乐符号实验室, 歌手的措辞, 声乐技巧与方法, 每周的声音表演课. Her students can be heard singing in the University choirs and as soloists. Dr. Janis served as vocal coach for 沃拉沃拉大学's successful 2016 production of Little Women - The Broadway Musical. Her work on that show garnered her a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Achievement Award. She also worked as vocal director for 沃拉沃拉大学’s production of You’re a Good Man, 查理·布朗，2018年11月. For the 2019 production of Amahl and the Night Visitors and the 2021 production of A Year with Frog and Toad, Dr. 贾尼斯同时担任声乐导演和舞台联合导演. 

Dr. Janis’ undergraduate degree is from 威斯敏斯特唱诗班学院 in Music Education. After four years teaching middle school and high school vocal music in upstate NY, 她在俄亥俄州立大学攻读研究生学位. Dr. Janis completed a Master of Arts in Vocal Pedagogy under the tutelage of Professor Helen Swank then a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance, 跟随博士学习. 罗宾大米. 在俄亥俄州立大学期间. Janis sang leading roles in several operas and operettas including Margot in The Desert Song, 阿黛尔在Fledermaus和Giannetta在L 'Elisird 'Amore. 1991年2月, 作为俄亥俄州立大学合唱团的一员, she was honored to sing the soprano solos for the Ohio premier of John Rutter’s Magnificat in Cleveland, OH, 由拉特亲自指挥.

自从搬到沃拉沃拉以来. Janis has sung professionally with the Walla Walla Symphony and the Mid-Columbia Symphony, 多次举办独奏会, 在1995年5月, 她在惠特曼学院的音乐剧《澳门真人官网赌场》中演唱了女主角, Dolly! Dr. 贾尼斯也是一位出色的合唱指挥, 她曾在家乡新泽西州指挥合唱团, NY, OH和WA. For fifteen seasons she served as Artistic Director/Conductor for the Walla Walla Choral Society. She works with the Walla Walla Symphony on special choral projects such as the youth chorus for the Nutcracker ballet every 2 years with the Eugene Ballet, and the women’s chorus for the May 2018 concert of Holst’s The Planets and Debussy’s Nocturnes to name a few. 自2001年8月起，博士. 詹尼斯一直是圣. 西洛安在瓦拉瓦拉的俄罗斯东正教教堂. 她是古典芭蕾基金会的副主席, a local non-profit dedicated to fostering the art of ballet and supporting youth ballet in the Walla Walla valley.

不列颠哥伦比亚省人, 克雷格·斯科特在北美各地举行过独奏会, Europe, 以及远东地区的邓布兰大教堂(苏格兰), 柯克帕特里克教堂(罗格斯大学), 中央路德教会(尤金), St. 马克圣公会大教堂(西雅图), 世宗文化中心(韩国), 高楼门基督教堂(南京), China). He has presented master classes at many institutions including the Eastman School, 罗格斯大学, 太平洋路德大学, 阿尔伯塔大学, 俄勒冈大学, 卡尔加里大学, 威斯敏斯特唱诗班学院, 以及美国管风琴协会的几个分会.   

Since assuming direction of the University choral ensembles in 2009 he and the small choir, ICantori, 在太平洋西北地区巡演过吗, 再到旧金山, 火奴鲁鲁, 南加州, 和纽约. As a guest conductor his appearances include leading the festival chorus of Central Lutheran Church (Eugene, Oregon), and conducting the 500-voice choir of the Seventh-day Adventist 国际 Choral Congress in Bucha, Ukraine. In addition to his work at WWU he serves as adjunct instructor at Whitman College. 

Scott holds an associate degree from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree from 沃拉沃拉大学. 他的高级学位包括俄勒冈大学的硕士学位, 伊斯曼音乐学院文学硕士和硕士学位, and post graduate choral conducting training at Michigan State University.