Board of Directors

2025–2026 Season

No organization can function without effective leadership and behind-the-scenes efforts. A ten-member Board of Directors governs the Choir and manages its business; directors are elected by the membership to three-year terms of office. In order to be eligible for election, a member must have been active in the choir for at least two calendar years, with the exception of one member from the community. Nominations for open board positions are made by choir members during the election process each fall.

The board plans and implements our day-to-day operations, including financial obligations, contracts, fundraising, concert scheduling, etc. Our bylaws and budget are available for review upon request.

Kelly brings more than four decades of choral and instrumental conducting experience to The Colorado Choir. Throughout her successful career, she served as Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado. She earned her Master of Education from Lesley University and a Bachelor of Arts from Adams State University. Kelly has been active in the American Choral Directors Association and the Colorado Music Educators National Conference. Kelly is a well-recognized, professional member of the Denver music community, and her groups have performed at such diverse venues as the U.S. Capitol and Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. She joined The Colorado Choir in 1980 and sang as a soprano soloist prior to being selected in 2009 as the choir’s 2nd conductor.

Jim joined the choir in January 2019 and was able to sing in three concerts before COVID shut things down for over a year. The Colorado Choir is the first choir, besides church choirs, that he has sung with since college, and he’s thoroughly enjoying learning and singing beautiful and challenging music. He and his wife, Linda, moved to Denver to be close to their daughter and three grandchildren (oh, and also their son-in-law).

Liam joined the choir in the fall of 2019. Liam sang with the Knox College Choir while completing a BA in Music, and has sung with several choirs as he moved around before returning to his hometown of Denver in 2017. In addition to The Colorado Choir, he also sings with the Metropolitan Choral Festival during the summers. Additionally, he studies organ with Dr. Cindy Lindeen-Martin and recently successfully passed the examination for the Service Playing Certification (SPC) from the American Guild of Organists. Liam works as the acquisitions manager for the University of Denver Libraries.

Ari joined the choir in 2016 and took a brief hiatus in 2023-2025 when she moved to Chicago. When she moved back to Denver, she immediately rejoined the choir! Ari has been involved with music and choirs since kindergarten and can’t imagine her life without music. She received her JD from the University of Denver – Sturm College of Law in 2023, and is now a regulatory and compliance associate with the legal department for PharmaCann. She lives with her husband and two dogs in southeast Denver and enjoys reading, yoga, spin classes, hiking, and traveling in her free time.

Siivi joined the choir in 2012, began assisting with the choir library in 2016, and became choir librarian in 2019. Siivi has been singing since she was three years old and has enjoyed music in some form or other all her life. She has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado at Denver. She lives with her husband and son in Centennial and in her spare time enjoys sewing, crocheting, reading, and a good walk now and then. She is excited to continue to be a part of The Colorado Choir community as a member of the board.

Coming soon

Emily has been a member of The Colorado Choir since 2018 as a second soprano. She has been singing in choirs for more than 30 years and has had some wonderful fun and opportunities because of that. On the board she is responsible for grants, primarily through SCFD. She is also our uniform master and helps to keep those organized and assigned. Big things in her life are her recent marriage and her work as a surgical nurse. She has no human children yet, but one fur child, a cat named Rey.

Coming soon

Mindee joined The Colorado Choir in 2014 after moving to Denver from Costa Rica with her husband and two kids, where they lived for a few years and learned Spanish. She’s the Choir’s website designer, video editor, and works with Kelly to create the season’s posters and programs. She does similar things in her day job as the owner of Mezzo Forte Digital. In her previous life, she was an assistant director in Hollywood. Outside of the choir she loves to travel and is working towards earning her 2nd-degree black belt in taekwondo.

Paul has loved singing for as long as he can remember, and he’s grateful for the opportunity to sing with this group of talented musicians. He and his wife, Anne, moved to Denver in 2017 so that their children could play more regularly with their cousins. Taking care of the kids and the pets and the household is the delightfully quotidian way that he makes the world a better place. Paul has been a member of The Colorado Choir since 2018.