BIOGRAPHIES

DOYLE PREHEIM, GUEST CONDUCTOR
Doyle received a B.A. degree in music education from Bethel College (KS) and advanced degrees in Church Music and Choral Music from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. A 36 year teaching career included years of service at Bethel College (KS), Miyakonojo Technical College (Japan), the University of California,  Santa Barbara and Goshen College (IN). In 2003 he retired after 30 years as professor of music at Goshen College, where he served for 15 years as Music Department Chair.  In addition to directing choirs at Goshen College, he also founded and directed the Goshen Community Chorale, and he conducted the Elkhart Symphony Chorus and the Camerata Singers of Elkhart County. Dr. Preheim has also served as Minister of Music in Mennonite, Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches during his career.  Since moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Doyle has been named Music Director of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale, a semiprofessional choir of forty-five singers in Santa Fe. He is also a voice instructor at the College of Santa Fe.

MARY JO PREHEIM, ACCOMPANIST
Mary Jo holds a B. A. degree in English from Bluffton College, and B. Mus. and M. Mus. degrees from the University of Kansas. Mrs. Preheim taught applied piano at Bluffton College, Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, Texas), Prince Georges Community College (Largo, Maryland), and Goshen College, where she also taught music theory. Since moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mary Jo is working as a paraprofessional in the Santa Fe Public Schools, and she is accompanist for the Sangre de Cristo Chorale.

KATHLEEN LEIDIG, VIOLINIST
Kathleen Leidig lives in Boulder, CO where she maintains an active schedule performing and teaching violin. Kathleen teaches with Boulder Suzuki Strings and at summer festivals including the Intermountain Suzuki Strings Institute in Utah and Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute in Westminster, CO. She performs on period instruments with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado (BCOC), and she is the principal second violinist in the St. Mary's Baroque Chamber Orchestra in Littleton, CO. In addition,  she performs as the second violinist in the Eldorado String Quartet. Kathleen received her M.A. in Suzuki Pedagogy from Ithaca College in 2000 and her B.A. in music performance from Goshen College in 1998. She studied with Suzuki trainers Sandy Reuning,  Carrie Reuning, William Starr, and Linda Fiore.