Kathy earned a Ph.D. in Music at the University of Utah. She has served as professor of music at Brigham Young University and as multicultural music consultant for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishers. She also served in the world chairmanship of the International Society for Folk Arts, as vice president of the Utah Music Educators Association, and on the executive board of the Utah Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. She received the CME Artist-Teacher Diploma, the UMEA State Elementary Music Award, the State Office of Education Outstanding Service to Education Award, the Council for Research Outstanding Dissertation Award for a two-volume work on music of 16 countries, and the BPW Utah Foundation Accolades to Women of Achievement Award. Kathy co-authored "The Sounds of Rounds and Canons" and "Multicultural Songs, Games and Dances." She has served as clinician for international music festivals and professional organizations in England, Canada, Korea, Poland and Austria, and has sung in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir since 1988.


Sheryl graduated from Weber State University with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education with saxophone as her major instrument. She taught band at Millcreek Jr. High in Bountiful. She is now the C.E.O. for Cannonball Musical Instruments where she and her husband, Tevis, design and import saxophones from the Orient for international distribution. Sheryl is accompanist for ICC and their children sing in the choir.


Janet earned her Bachelor's of Music degree from the University of Utah. She holds the Colleague Certificate from the American Guild of Organists and is Past Dean and Past Regional Convenor for the AGO Utah Chapter. She is chair for the 2003 AGO national convention. She serves as organist for Cottonwood Presbyterian and accompanist for ICC, where the children have adopted her as their "Granny Griffin."


Tamara Bischoff Oswald is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Tamara is principal harpist with Ballet West and the Orchestra at Temple Square. As a teenager she soloed on 3 different occasions with the Utah Symphony on their annual "salute to Youth" concert as both harpist and pianist. Tamara has won numerous awards nationally and internationally as a harpist. She and her husband Daniel, a native of Zurich, Switzerland, are the parents of six children.


Kristie sang and rang handbells in the International Children's Choir for 8 years. She also plays and arranges music for flute, recorder and autoharp. She has been teaching handbell and choir chime classes at the annual ICC summer camps since 1999.  Since 2002, she has conducted the 5-octave ICC handbell choir and assisted in the training of the beginning singers. Kristie works as a Java programmer for OC Tanner and also raises and trains show donkeys.



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