Mission:
Gather community, support the arts and delight the spirit.
We gather the community through our concert series and outreach programs, support the arts through music education, workshops and performance opportunities for emerging artists; and delight the spirit through outreach performances at prisons, nursing homes, hospitals and hospice centers.
History:
For over 13 years, Augustana Arts has had an active concert series, hosting choirs, soloists, orchestras and instrumentalists from across the nation and abroad.
Since its incorporation in 1997, Augustana Arts has expanded its outreach including:
- subsidized music instruction to children who qualify for free lunch programs
- workshops and presentations in local public schools
- private tuition for piano, voice and all band instruments
- partnerships with professional and semi-professional arts organizations
- free performances in retirement homes, hospitals, hospice centers and prisons
More than 7,000 audience members will participate in Augustana Arts' activities during the course of the 2009-10 season, with performances ranging from the international critically acclaimed a cappella vocal group, The King's Singers, to Matt Savage, a 17-year old amazingly gifted jazz pianist, composer and improviser.
The Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, under the auspices of Augustana Arts, performs regularly in the annual concert series as well as engages in collaborations with other performing organizations.
Augustana Arts offers ticket donations to more than 1,500 individuals with mental, physical or developmental disabilities over the course of each season, and we are proud to partner with ArtReach to offer hope and inspiration through the performing arts.
If you have not attended an Augustana Arts performance, come along and give it a try. There is something on the schedule for most everyone, and remember that the concert ticket that you purchase helps bring the magic of music to the lives of those who may not otherwise have an opportunity to experience it.
Leadership:
Wes Munsil, Chair, Board of Trustees
President, Lexonics, Inc.
Ex-officio member of all committees
Alfred Born, Augustana Institute of Music (AIM) Director
Email: AlfredBorn@augustanaArts.org
Phone: 303-388-4962 or 303-388-4678
Alfred Born is active in the Denver metropolitan area as a free lance musician: pianist, organist, harpsichordist, and fortepianist (he has his own fortepiano modelled after the Stein-Dulcken instrument in the Smithsonian Insitution.) In addition to his church job as Director of Music at Mount Zion Lutheran Church, he is a tenor in Musicians of Saint Clare Choir, touring with that choir, and is keyboardist with Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra. Before coming to Denver in 1998, he was Professor of Piano at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. He enjoys hiking, traveling, and especially snorkeling as he did recently in Belize.
Catherine Sailer, Music Director, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra
Email: csailer@du.edu
Phone: 303-313-9568
Catherine Sailer is conductor of the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Denver, where she conducts the Lamont Chorale and Lamot Women's Chorus. In 2005, she was named the winner of Chorus America's prestigious Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship. She has conducted professional choruses such as the Dale Warland Singers, Kansas City Chorale, Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop Chorus.
Other recent conducting credits include the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, National Opera of China, and the Larimer Chorale and Orchestra. She was invited to take part in the National Conducting Institute at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and studied with Leonard Slatkin, and the Oregon Bach Festival, where she conducted the festival orchestra and chorus in performances under the tutelage of Helmuth Rilling. She previously served as assistant conductor of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
She received her Doctor of Music in conducting from Northwestern University where she studied with Robert A. Harris and Mallory Thompson and was awarded the Kenneth G. and Helen C. Merrill scholarship. Her B.M. and M.M. degrees are in piano performance and choral conducting from the University of Denver. Dr. Sailer is an active clinician, adjudicator and pianist.
Charlotte Adams, Principal Conductor, Colorado Women's Chorale
Email: char@spruce.net
Charlotte is Founder and Principal Conductor of the Colorado Women's Chorale, a select adult womens' choir in Denver Colorado. A Music educator for 29 years, she conducted the Girls' 21 and the A Cappella Choir at Cherry Creek High School, Englewood Colorado from 1974 to 2003.Charlotte serves as South West ACDA Regional Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Women's Music. Charlotte's schedule for 2004-2005 includes conducting Honor Choirs in Colorado, Wyoming and Texas. In addition, her schedule includes adjudicating Choral Music Festivals in Colorado, Indiana, Michigan and Texas.
The Charlotte Adams Music Series is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing as well as her acclaimed video, "Daily Workout for a Beautiful Voice", published in the Charlene Archibeque Choral Series. When she is not conducting, Charlotte enjoys exploring under the water.
Board of Directors:
Wes Munsil, Chair
President, Lexonics Inc.
Howard Jacobsen, Treasurer
Senior Vice President, The Bank of Denver
Richard Larson
Choral Director for Kantorei Chorale
Cindy Lindeen-Martin, DMA
Minister of Music and Organist
John Pederson
Senior Pastor, Augustana Lutheran Church
Gloria Shanstrom
General Manager, Colorado Theater Guild
Karen Wenzel
Executive Director, Rocky Mountain MS Center
Jan Meck, Owner/Partner of the Ten/10 Marketing Group
Marsha Temple, Executive Director of Augustana Arts