Sara Hare
Executive Director
Sara Hare has spent nearly her entire life as a musician and the past decade as an arts administrator. She is passionate about envisioning a new future for the orchestra and the performing arts. Her nearly decade-long work leading innovative and immersive performances for Denver’s youth guided her desire to create programs that break down barriers, challenge convention, and create welcoming spaces for audiences from diverse backgrounds. She believes the arts, and the orchestra, should be a place for all and works to create space for musicians and audience members from all backgrounds and performance styles in her work.
Sara holds an undergraduate degree in Oboe Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. After finishing her degree, she came to the harrowing conclusion that, despite decades of study, she no longer wanted to pursue a career as a performing musician. She went on to receive a master’s degree from the University of Denver in Arts and Culture with a concentration in Arts Management and Program Development and has been helping to connect audiences with transformative arts experiences ever since.
Adam Torres
Stratus Chamber Orchestra Director
For conductor and pianist Adam Torres, music offers more than entertainment: it provides insights to the greatest aspects of humanity. Torres’ belief in the transformative power of music emanates in everything he does, on the podium, behind a piano, in his private studio, and in lecture halls. His passion and musical expression help him maintain an active profile across the United States and beyond, and his work is heard by tens of thousands of patrons annually.
Torres, a Denver-based artist, recently served as Principal Conductor for Loveland Opera Theatre and held Assistant Conductor positions with Fort Collins Symphony and Denver Young Artists Orchestra. Highlights of his recent conducting engagements includes the Cheyenne Symphony (Guest Conductor), St. Louis Symphony (Cover Conductor), Colorado Symphony (Cover Conductor), and the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music (Assistant Conductor). Other conducting engagements include work with Opera Fort Collins, Opera Steamboat, Colorado Pops Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, and Hyperprism Music.
Beyond the US, Adam served as a rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor for Opera Orvieto (Italy) and recently completed a trip to Paris and Köln to apprentice with conductor Cristian Măcelaru, the Orchestre National de France, and WDR Sinfonieorchester.
When not on the podium, Adam shares his passion for music as a faculty member of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Colorado State University. Beyond his work at CSU, Adam has assisted with community programs such as El Sistema Colorado and served as a clinician in public schools in Colorado and Texas, most recently including conducting a performance at Boettcher Concert Hall with the Continental League Honor Orchestra. Other community and student engagement projects include work with ensembles such as the Alpharetta Symphony, Fort Collins’ Health and Wellness Orchestra, Bas Bleu Theatre, San Angelo Symphony Chorus, Colorado State University Orchestra and CSU Opera, Angelo State University Wind Ensemble, and Angelo Civic Theater.
For more information on Adam’s work and upcoming engagements, please visit http://www.adamtorresmusic.com.
Lindsay Genadek
Outreach & Education Coordinator
Lindsay received her Bachelors of Music Performance on viola in 2007 from the University of Northern Colorado and her Bachelors of Music Education degree from Colorado Mesa University in 2010 graduating Summa Cum Laude. She received her Masters of Education Administration at Argosy University in 2018.
Lindsay has taught private violin and viola lessons for 17 years and has 9 years experience teaching orchestra at the public school level, most recently as an elementary and middle school orchestra director at Westminster Public Schools. Prior to this position, she served as the Head Orchestra Director at Mapleton Public Schools and taught at El Sistema Colorado as the String Teaching Artist.
Lindsay is very active in the music education community. She is currently on the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) Private Studio Committee, has been a mentor for the ASTA new teacher program and has served as the Secretary of the Colorado American String Teachers Association. She has presented sessions at the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference as well as the Colorado American String Teachers Association Summer Conference.
She was the recipient of the Mapleton Public School’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2015 and was given the Colorado American String Teachers Association’s Exemplary Middle School and Junior High School Teacher Award in 2012.
Lindsay can be seen performing on her viola throughout Colorado in a variety of capacities. Lindsay has performed with the Stratus Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Symphony Orchestra as principal viola, the Denver Philharmonic where she played both section violist and principal violist, Stratus Chamber Orchestra as a substitute violist and the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra. She was featured as the guest soloist for the Grand Junction chamber music recital concert series and performed with the Mesa State College Orchestra in 2010 as the winner of the concerto competition. She performed as guest lead violist with the alternative hip-hop/rock band The Flobots and was a guest artist on the recent album of Khemmis. She is also a member of a new, upcoming folk/bluegrass band.
Anna Psitos
Marketing Coordinator
Although known for her abilities on the cello, Anna actually started her musician journey as a pianist. She played piano through high school, then went on to get her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and got her Masters of Music from CU Boulder. While at CU, she worked at CU Presents in their marketing department and earned an internship at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for the press department of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Several years after returning to Denver, Anna joined Stratus Chamber Orchestra and in 2023 began assisting with the marketing efforts of Augustana Arts.
Anna currently works as a software engineer for a small company in Boulder. In addition to music, Anna is an avid knitter, baker, and reader.