Board of Directors

2026–2027 Season

No organization can function without effective leadership and behind-the-scenes efforts. An eleven-member Board of Directors governs the Choir and manages its business; directors are elected by the membership to three-year terms of office, other than community members, who are appointed by the board. In order to be eligible for election, a member must have been active in the choir for at least two calendar years. 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. With the exception of the conductor, assistant conductor, and pianist, all board members sing in the choir and pay the same dues as everyone else. The Board takes care of 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).

Thomas joined the Colorado Choir in the Spring of 2022. He is a certified general music teacher, choir director, and violin instructor in Aurora Public Schools, where he has taught since 2009.  On the side, he has been the director of music at Lord of the Hills Lutheran Church, where he has directed the adult choir, adult handbell choir, praise band, and children’s choirs since 2012. Thomas has taught in Denver Public Schools and Littleton Public Schools and has also directed music in Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches.  Before teaching, he worked as an administrative assistant for the Denver Children’s Choir (formerly Rocky Mountain Children’s Choir) and served as a section leader/assistant director at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.  Music has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember, and he can’t imagine life without it. He is excited to be a part of the board!

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.

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 has been on the board since 2016 and is 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 3rd-degree black belt in taekwondo.

Coming soon

Lori is a believer in the power of the arts, so though she is not a singer, she is interested in providing support in any way she can to The Colorado Choir. Professionally, she works in the insurance industry and always has an eye out for her next entrepreneurial adventure. She lives in the southern part of Denver with her two younger daughters and loves to visit her oldest at college in Boulder. In her free time, she loves running, hiking, and is rediscovering her love for painting.

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.