Dr. Monty Barnard
Voice Instructor
605.274.5455
monty.barnard@augie.edu

Dr. Monty Barnard recently retired as a full-time professor of music after 39 years at Augustana. He continues to teach applied voice for the department. His solo roles in several oratorios and operas include Messiah, Elijah, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Mozart Requiem, Brahms Requiem, Fauré Requiem, Puccini Madame Butterfly, Puccini La Bohême, and Verdi La Traviata. He has performed numerous faculty recitals, a Carnegie Recital Hall debut recital, and was a touring artist with the Goldovsky Opera Theatre. He serves as director of music and baritone soloist at Calvary Cathedral (Episcopal) and Mt. Zion Synagogue, Sioux Falls.

Jeanne Carter
Voice Instructor
605.274.5456
jmtcarter@sio.midco.net

Jeanne M. Carter is a voice instructor at Augustana College, and she is also director of music and fine arts at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Nationally certified in piano, she holds membership in Music Teacher National Association, American Choral Directors Association, American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Choristers Guild, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She is one of the founders of the Sioux Falls Girls’ Chorale, where she is co-director of the Con Brio choir. She also is the founder and director of the adult community choir Prairie Song. She has a bachelor of arts degree from St. Olaf College, an MAT from Mankato State University and a master of music in vocal performance degree from the University of South Dakota.

Dr. Lisa Grevlos
Director of Vocal Studies and Opera Theatre/Voice Instructor/Vocal Music Education/Choral Conductor
605.274.5457
lisa.grevlos@augie.edu

Dr. Lisa Grevlos is associate professor of music and Director of Vocal Studies at Augustana College. She directs the Augustana Opera Workshop Theatre program, conducts the Augustana Women’s Choir –Angelus, and teaches in the areas of applied voice, vocal pedagogy, singer’s diction, and choral music education. Dr. Grevlos performs frequently as a soloist in the region for recitals, operas, oratorios, and musical theatre. She has been a guest soloist with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in “A Night at the Opera” and the Brahms Requiem and was the featured soprano vocalist with the Sioux Falls Municipal Band for fifteen years. Recent engagements have included a faculty recital featuring original compositions of Augustana College composers, various roles in Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. productions - most recently as Gretal in Englebert Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel", soprano soloist in the Augustana Orchestra's production of Faure’s Pelléas and Mélisande, and soprano soloist in the Swiss Chorale Society’s performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She has been a regional finalist and scholarship recipient in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and was a semi-finalist in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Auditions.

Along with her duties at Augustana College, she is president of Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect South Dakota professional vocal artists in opera, recital, and musical theatre performance with regional audiences. In September 2012, she will serve as stage director for the Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" starring internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, Samuel Ramey, accompanied by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Delta David Gier in the Mary Sommervold Hall of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. Dr. Grevlos also serves as a frequent adjudicator and clinician throughout the Midwest. She is a member of MTNA and ACDA and is the High School and Collegiate Vocal Competition Chair for SDMTA and the soprano adjudicator for SD-ACDA Honor Choir. She received the doctor of arts degree in voice performance and opera stage directing from the University of Northern Colorado. She holds master of music degrees from Northwestern University, Evanston, in voice performance and choral conducting, and she completed her undergraduate degree in music education at Augustana College.

Cheryl Koch
Voice Instructor
605.274.5475
cherylpkoch@gmail.com

Cheryl Koch is an applied voice instructor. Prior to teaching at Augustana, she conducted the Sullivan County Community Chorus in New York and the MCC Singers in Miles City, Montana. She served as choir director at the Grahamsville United Methodist Church in New York and as interim director of music at First Presbyterian Church in Sioux Falls. She is active in the Music Teachers National Association and is a past president of the SD Music Teachers Association and Sounds of South Dakota. She served as Division Chair for the Junior Level of MTNA competitions, where she organized the competitors from eight states. Her performing credits include leading roles in musicals: Anything Goes; Kiss Me, Kate; Camelot; Hello, Dolly!; Man of La Mancha, and in opera: Carmen and The Devil and Daniel Webster. She holds bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and vocal music education and a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of South Dakota.

Emily Lodine
Voice Instructor
605.274.5456
garyandem@myclearwave.net

Emily Lodine, mezzo soprano, has performed with many of the world’s finest conductors, including James Levine, Hugh Wolff, Paul Hillier, Nicholas McGegan, Leonard Slatkin, Jane Glover, and Bernard Labadie. She has appeared with the symphonies of Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and the Pacific Symphony, as well as the orchestras of Detroit, South Dakota, Phoenix and Rochester, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Philip Glass Ensemble. A frequent soloist with Music of the Baroque, she can be heard on the group's recording Vom Himmel Hoch. She also received acclaim for her work in the world premiere and recording of Jon Polifrone's Requiem, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Ms. Lodine made her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah under the baton of composer-conductor John Rutter. She has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Noye's Fludde and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, as well as Stravinsky's Les noces, Requiem Canticles and Mass, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. At the Ravinia Festival, she made her debut in Strauss' Elektra, conducted by James Levine. Ms. Lodine graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University with bachelor of music degree in voice and theory. She is also a member of the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble "Conspirare."

Weston Noble
Director of the Augustana Choir
605.274.5402
weston.noble@augie.edu

Weston Noble is a highly accomplished and honored American music educator and conductor. Mr. Noble had a fifty-seven year tenure  as a conductor and teacher at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has received acclaim from across the country and the world as the  conductor of the Luther College Nordic Choir from 1948 to 2005, the Luther College Concert Band from 1948 to 1973, and as guest  director for over 900 All-State bands, orchestras, choirs, and festivals across four continents.

 Mr. Noble is a charter member of the American Choral Directors Association and an elected member of the American Bandmaster’s Association. In 1994 the North Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association established the Weston H. Noble Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Choral Art. Mr. Noble was the first to be honored with the award.

Because of his outstanding contributions to choral music, Mr. Noble is the recipient of the Robert Lawson Shaw Award given by the American Choral Directors Association. Due to his outstanding contributions to instrumental music, he was awarded the 2008 Midwest Clinic Medal of Honor, given by the International Convention of Band and Orchestra Directors. In the field of music education the National Federation of State High School Associations recognized him as the Outstanding Music Educator of the United States. He is also listed in the World Biographical Hall of Fame and Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World 2009.

Mr. Noble holds five honorary doctorate degrees: Augustana College (South Dakota), St. Olaf College, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Carthage College and Wartburg College. He was awarded the St. Olav’s Medal from King Harald V of Norway for his contributions to Norwegian-American relations.

In 2009 he conducted the International Schools Festival in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, with participants from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia. He is the resident conductor of the Pacific Summer Music Festival of Guam. In December 2010, he conducted Handel's Messiah in Seoul, Korea.

Since his retirement from Luther College, Mr. Noble has had guest year residencies at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin and Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. We welcome him to Augustana in the Fall of 2011 as the Guest Conductor of The Augustana Choir (Sept 2011 - January 2012).

Judith Schreck
Voice Instructor
605.274.5405
jschreck@augie.edu

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