Lisette Parks - Cantabo Director
Photo and Bio - Coming Soon!
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Mandy Swanson - Deo Gratias and Coram Deo Director
Mrs. Swanson is entering her 7th year as the director of SAHC's older two choirs Deo Gratias and Coram Deo. She is also a stay at home mom, raising and schooling her four children. Before staying home, Mrs. Swanson taught k-12 music at Parkview Christian School for four and a half years. Highlights of her time there include growing the dwindling choir into a thriving mixed ensemble and adding a second select Chamber Choir. Under her baton the programs grew in size and musicality, performing at a high level of excellence recognized by audiences and adjudicators alike.
Mrs. Swanson received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Trinity International University, where she studied choral conducting under Dr. Paul Satre, attending on a full music scholarship. In the community Mrs. Swanson sings with the Lincoln Choral Artists, where she serves as assistant director, as secretary on the choir’s board, and has been a featured soloist. She is also an active church musician. Mrs. Swanson is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA, NCDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME, NMEA). [[email protected]]
Lorene Wissink - Jubilate Deo Director
Lorene Wissink, director since 2006, enjoys, "all things musical"! Lorene's involvement in children's programming has including conducting children's choirs in the church setting. Additionally, she maintains her own piano studio. In each capacity, Lorene seeks to use music to enrich the life of every child.
Past opportunities consist of choral singing at Grace University and eight seasons with the sixteen-voice Good News Singers of the Back to the Bible Broadcast. Planning church choir musicals and dramas has also been rewarding. The Wissink family enjoys involvement as staff members at the Fine Arts Summer Academy in Nashville, TN, an academy their daughters first attended as students. In 2012, they participated in the New American Choir and Orchestra along with the Annie Moses Band at Carnegie Hall. [[email protected]]
Priscilla Kliewer - Accompanist
Stemming from their own strong interest in good music, Priscilla Kliewer's parents nurtured her interests in music as a child. She grew up on a farm in Montana, and her mother was her first piano teacher. Later they began driving forty and fifty miles to two towns where she and her brother took piano and organ lessons, even getting approval to be out of school a couple hours early on lesson days. Miss Kliewer earned her degree in Bible and Sacred Music at Grace University, and continued on to UNL studying piano and organ. There she received her teaching certificate and Master's degree. Her professional years include having her own piano studio, some teaching in public school, and recently piano adjudicating for NMTA. Discovering and teaching each student's unique learning style gives her the greatest reward of her teaching career.
Photo and Bio - Coming Soon!
[[email protected]]
Mandy Swanson - Deo Gratias and Coram Deo Director
Mrs. Swanson is entering her 7th year as the director of SAHC's older two choirs Deo Gratias and Coram Deo. She is also a stay at home mom, raising and schooling her four children. Before staying home, Mrs. Swanson taught k-12 music at Parkview Christian School for four and a half years. Highlights of her time there include growing the dwindling choir into a thriving mixed ensemble and adding a second select Chamber Choir. Under her baton the programs grew in size and musicality, performing at a high level of excellence recognized by audiences and adjudicators alike.
Mrs. Swanson received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Trinity International University, where she studied choral conducting under Dr. Paul Satre, attending on a full music scholarship. In the community Mrs. Swanson sings with the Lincoln Choral Artists, where she serves as assistant director, as secretary on the choir’s board, and has been a featured soloist. She is also an active church musician. Mrs. Swanson is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA, NCDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME, NMEA). [[email protected]]
Lorene Wissink - Jubilate Deo Director
Lorene Wissink, director since 2006, enjoys, "all things musical"! Lorene's involvement in children's programming has including conducting children's choirs in the church setting. Additionally, she maintains her own piano studio. In each capacity, Lorene seeks to use music to enrich the life of every child.
Past opportunities consist of choral singing at Grace University and eight seasons with the sixteen-voice Good News Singers of the Back to the Bible Broadcast. Planning church choir musicals and dramas has also been rewarding. The Wissink family enjoys involvement as staff members at the Fine Arts Summer Academy in Nashville, TN, an academy their daughters first attended as students. In 2012, they participated in the New American Choir and Orchestra along with the Annie Moses Band at Carnegie Hall. [[email protected]]
Priscilla Kliewer - Accompanist
Stemming from their own strong interest in good music, Priscilla Kliewer's parents nurtured her interests in music as a child. She grew up on a farm in Montana, and her mother was her first piano teacher. Later they began driving forty and fifty miles to two towns where she and her brother took piano and organ lessons, even getting approval to be out of school a couple hours early on lesson days. Miss Kliewer earned her degree in Bible and Sacred Music at Grace University, and continued on to UNL studying piano and organ. There she received her teaching certificate and Master's degree. Her professional years include having her own piano studio, some teaching in public school, and recently piano adjudicating for NMTA. Discovering and teaching each student's unique learning style gives her the greatest reward of her teaching career.
Past Directors
2000-2015 John C. Friesen, DMA, Founding Director
2000-2015 John C. Friesen, DMA, Founding Director