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| SPOTLIGHT |
| Virginia Bergquist Bowles (Ginny), soprano, holds degrees in music from St. Olaf College and New England Conservatory. Having taught at Asbury College full time since 1990, she has begun to teach part time at the college this year. In addition to teaching at Asbury, Ginny has a vocal studio in Lexington and performs throughout the Bluegrass area. Ginny has extensive performing experience singing with the Boston Symphony Orchastra under Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Bernstein, Edo DeWaart, Zubin Mehta and Klaus Tennstedt. In addition, she has recorded several film soundtracks, including Close Encounters and Indiana Jones, with John Williams and the Boston Symphony. She has appeared with the Lexington Philharmonic and the Warren Ohio Symphony, under the baton of George Zack. About her singing, one delighted reviewer called her "thrushlike" and another wrote, "Virginia Bergquist (Bowles) displayed a voice of ravishing beauty and timbre, well modulated and controlled." |
| Our Charter Members! |
| Martha Anderson, alto, is passionate about her music students at the Lexington School, where she has taught for many years. When not singing or teaching she loves to bake cookies and pursue beauty. For her students, she wrote, "Music teases the mind, inspires creativity, and meets the soul." Martha is an accomplished organist. She served as organist for First Presbyterian Church in Lexington for 24 years. |
| Dan Cook, bass, has been featured soloist in many of the concerts over the last twelve years. As a member of the Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church Cathedral and Opera of Central Kentucky, he enjoys wide exposure in the Bluegrass Area. Dan and his wife Elaine Humphreys Cook have received grants from the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council to perform light classical and sentimental songs for Senior Citizens Centers in Fayette County. The Harp and Baritone Duo have appeared in recitals throughout the Ohio River Valley region. |
| Joan Stansbury, soprano, holds a BA in music education from Hobert and William Smith College and an MA in music education from Eastern Kentucky University. After thirty years of teaching music in the Fayette County Public Schools, Joan retired from James Lane Allen Elementary School in 2006. She is currently teaching a music education class at UK, as well as teaching part time for Musikgarten of Lexington. She is a past president of the Kentucky Orff Schulwerk Association, and has served as a regional representative to the American Orff Schulwerk Association. Joan and husband Paul recently moved to Danville. |
| Ned Farrar, tenor, has been an active member of the Lexington musical community for forty-plus years. He has played violin in the Lexington Philharmonic, and viola in the LaMay Quartet, the Lexington Quartet, Ashland Trio, and the Philharmonic Quartet. Ned has sung many opera roles in the University of Kentucky Opera as well as roles in Lexington Musical Theater. Ned has sung in Christ Church Cathedral's Choir of Men and Boys since 1972. |
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| from left: Martha, Ned, Joan, Dan, Ginny |