Choir Director: GIANNA DROGHEO
Biography
Gianna Drogheo has a Masters in Vocal Performance and has been singing in and directing choirs for 30 years. She has also done solo work in opera, musical theater and jazz standards. She is comfortable working with classical as well as more popular styles of music. She teaches private voice lessons as well as vocal workshops for groups. Recently Gianna has been facilitating singing meditation sessions in which toning of he chakras and songs from many world cultures are intermixed with short periods of meditation. She is very happy to be a part of UUFSD.
From Our Choir Director
“I have been singing in choirs since third grade, both sacred and secular. I have directed many volunteer choirs and I strongly believe that “All God’s Creatures Got a Place in the Choir”. I have a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance and have been an adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks as well as a music teacher and conductor at many levels. I possess the enthusiasm and will necessary for teaching novice singers to sing well. I love helping people find their voice and share in a community to make a joyful noise. I directed a choir sponsored by the Fairbanks Alaska UU Fellowship, which sang about peace, the environment, self-awareness and word wide cooperation. I believe it is every person’s birthright to sing. I also believe that it is one of the healthiest activities we can engage in; joining together in song.” Gianna Drogheo
Contact Gianna Dragheo at gianna@uufsd.org
Accompanists
Lynne Talley
Lynne Talley has a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She studied piano performance with Carl Seeman at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, Germany, for a year following Oberlin. She continued her studies with Beatrice Erdeley, from the New England Conservatory of Music. After moving to San Diego, she studied for a few years with Pam Madsen and Karen Follingstad (SDSU).
Monique Kunewalder
Monique Kunewalder went to the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Connecticut, and with the help of two Austrian piano teachers, Monique won several east coast competitions, and played with Arthur Fiedler and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra at age 12. She went on to the Oberlin College and Conservatory in Oberlin, OH. Monique’s graduate work was at the University of Geneva and the Geneva Conservatory of Music, with additional studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.