Season of Love Program

Special Thanks

Evergreen Lutheran Church and Dave Gleason
Wellshire Presbyterian Church and Vinnie Olan
Steve Montigne
George Meyer
Ingrid Ulbrich
Ruth Hund

Program

Ding Dong Merrily on High arr. Howard Helvey

Noel Naomi LaViolette

Deck the Halls in 7/8 arr. James McKelvey

O Come All Ye Faithful arr. Dan Forrest

I Saw Three Ships arr. Taylor Scott Davis

How Great Our Joy arr. Craig Courtney

INTERMISSION

Wassail arr. Patrick D. Quigley
Max McCord, soloist
Ken Scudder and Dodge McCord, soloists*
Chad Hewitt and David Veyna, soloists**

Sussex Carol arr. Elaine Hagenberg

Fum, Fum, Fum arr. Mack Wilberg

Carol of the Bells arr. Kirby Shaw

Carol of Joy Dan Forrest

Patapan arr. Brent Wells
Karl Allen, and Ziyang Yu, soloists

Auld Lang Syne arr. Dan Forrest
Mandy Cyphers (Dec 12)

Amy Petcoff (Dec 13)

Ruth Hund (Dec 14)

Please silence your phones during the concert! Thank you!

*performing at Evergreen Lutheran Church
**performing at Wellshire Presbyterian Church

Born in White Plains, New York, pianist Mallory Bernstein has performed as a soloist and collaborator across the United States as well as in Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico. Highlights of her career include appearances with the Sonoma Philharmonic, Aurora Symphony, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Devil Moon Concert Series, Opera Colorado, the Playground Ensemble, Englewood Arts, Green Box Arts, and Art Song Colorado.

Mallory earned degrees in Piano Performance from Ithaca College, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of Denver, and has served on the faculty of the College Audition Advantage summer institute as a collaborative pianist and coach.

She is the founding Executive Director of Education Through Music-Colorado, where she is dedicated to building high-quality, equitable music education programs in under-resourced schools. Mallory lives in Denver with her husband and their three young daughters.

Christine Gaudreau

Christine Gaudreau is in her 16th year as Artistic and Principal Music Director and Conductor for Ovation West Performing Arts, the Evergreen Chorale and Altezza Chamber Choir.

Christine completed degrees in Music History/Voice Performance as well as a Masters in Conducting from SDSU. Additionally, she has studied conducting at the International Bach Festival and at Yale. She serves as Director of Music and Worship Arts for the highly respected music program at Wellshire Presbyterian Church, where she conducts, among others, the Sanctuary Choir, the professional Wellshire Orchestra, and also curates the concert series Music at Wellshire. A sought after clinician and guest conductor, Christine works regularly for local orchestras, universities, schools and also for the Presbyterian Musician's Association.

Recently: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Copland Old American Songs and Lincoln Portrait ,as well as the second performance of Christopher Tin's Let My Country Awake,; world premiere of William Hill's The Raven's Tears; Beethoven's 9th with Evergreen Chamber Orchestra; Elaine Hagenberg's Illuminare at Carnegie Hall. Christine also just conducted the world premiere of To Sing of Love by Taylor Scott Davis.

Upcoming:.Cantata #61, J.S. Bach, two collaborations with M. Roger Holland, among others to perform his new composition Voice of My People; Schubert's Mass in G; Ramirez' Misa Criolla and Bob Chilcott's A Little Jazz Mass, as well as Wellshire's annual Orchestra Candlelight Services on Christmas Eve.

Kirsten Carpenter Ortman

Kirsten Carpenter Ortman is the Director of Choirs at the Colorado School of Mines as well as the vocal music instructor at Ralston Valley High School. Additionally, Kirsten serves as the Associate Conductor of the Evergreen Chorale. Kirsten’s choirs have performed in a variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. In addition to conducting, Mrs. Ortman also frequently performs as soloist for concert, opera and musical theater productions and is a paid soloist at Wellshire Presbyterian Church. Recent roles include Jenny in The Threepenny Opera, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, and Giannetta in L'elisir D'amore. Kirsten directed Godspell for Ovation West in the spring of 2022. Kirsten holds a BME in vocal music and MM in conducting from the University in Northern Colorado.

Patrick Lee is a Colorado native, a graduate of CU's jazz department, and a teacher of piano in Evergreen. He is currently into composing and performing live piano scores for his silent film series at Center Stage, and has also released over thirty albums of original music influenced by sampling culture, field recordings, hip-hop, and experimental music. When not doing pull-ups, Lee can be found making kimchi, teaching his daughters to drive, trying to root for Buffs football, and betting on Czech table tennis.

Evergreen chorale

THE EVERGREEN CHORALE

Christine Gaudreau, Artistic and Principal Music Director
Patrick Lee, Principal Pianist and Accompanist
Kirsten Carpenter-Ortman, Associate Conductor
Jordan Ortman, Associate Pianist
Alex Woosley, Production Manager

SOPRANO

Jeannette Armbrustmacher

Sara Brush

Hannah Buenning

Ava Campbell

Samantha Capicchioni

Kirsten Carpenter-Ortman

Mandy Cyphers

Briell Duteil

Logan Edmonds

Leontine Galante

Ruth Hund

Chelsea Jipping

Cindy McCool

Linda Morris

Ilene Nova

Sylvia Olney

Amy Petcoff

Amy Poole

Heather Rains

Jennifer Rich

Laura Shrock

Khaylen Stanton

Sarah Stubblefield

Linda Trenbeath

Lisa Wald

Alex Woosley

ALTO

Kirsten Arthur

Laurie Atkinson

Julie Bell

Linda Dey

JoAnn Dunn*

Lorell Duteil

Liv Fischer

Jean Gan

Linda Knippa

Shelley Krane

Becky LaClair

Therese Lincoln

Emilie McDonough

Ann Moore

Gretchen Moritz

Michelle O’Laughlin

Shana Palakow

Jessica Read

Barb Scripps

Hillie Teller Corman

Claire Terry

TENOR

Karl Allen

Kevin Atkinson

Dan Brooks

Keith Buckley

Jason Duteil

Forrest Guittar

Chad Hewitt

Steve Montigne*

Max McCord*

Michael Post

Tom Scripps

Ken Scudder

BASS

Richard Aylor

Robert Baldwin

Greg Bond

Scott Campbell

Ken Frick

Kim Gan

David Leyva

George Meyer

Dodge McCord*

Kevin Miller*

Alan Rubin

Maotong Yu

Ziyangyu Yu

*denotes section leaders

Ovation West DONORS (2024/2025)

Over $10,000

Anonymous - Alan Rubin - Diane and Don Shaver - Ted & Claire Terry

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$1,000-$4,999

JoAnn & Pem Dunn - Hawks Family Foundation - Ruth Hund - Mike & Ann Moore - James He - Kevin Atkinson - Tom Scripps

Up to $999

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*Donations made to Ovation West Performing Arts between July 1st, 2024 and November 5th, 2025