Celebrating the bridge-building joy of music! The Great Lakes Youth Choir, formerly the Little Traverse Youth Choir, is the host choir for Voices Without Borders' Children of the World in Harmony Festivals and has toured internationally to Ireland (Dublin Choral Festival) and Scotland (American Celebration of Music in Scotland) in 2018, French-speaking Canada and New York in 2013, and has been honored to perform with the Northern Michigan Chorale, the Little Traverse Choral Society, the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra and Chorus and Broadway singers, Sir Franc D'Ambrosio and Matthew Morrison. The choir was thrilled to accept an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall in NYC in June, 2020. Unfortunately, that trip was cancelled due to the novel coronavirus. Meet our Director! Monica has served as the Director of Arts and Music Ministry at First Presbyterian Church in Harbor Springs since  January 2017. Her previous home was in Muncie, IN whe re she studied f or her doctoral degree in choral conducting at Ball State University. During her time in Indiana she served as the Director of Music at Hazelwood Christian Church in Muncie for four years. She has also directed several choirs in the Chicago area.
Monica is originally from Romania where she started her music education as a young child. Together with her parents and older sister she moved to the States in 1997, settling in the Chicago suburbs. She received her undergraduate degree in Piano Performance from DePaul University, master’s degree from Andrews University, Berrien Springs MI, in both choral conducting and piano performance, and is working on her dissertation to complete her doctoral degree. Monica’s interests are music, drawing, literature on the power of music, history of arts, jogging, cross-country skiing, and cooking. She and her husband have two young children. She loves spending time with her babies, reading to them, and teaching them songs.
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