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BOARD MEMBERS

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Emily Shumway Pfeifer, artistic director

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Emily Shumway Pfeifer grew up in O'ahu, Hawaii, and began her career as a dancer in high school at the Polynesian Cultural Center's Night Show. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Butler University. Emily has performed as a singer, dancer, actor, and chorus conductor in various parts of the world and is fluent in German and Spanish. She has worked as a Butler Women's Glee Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bloomington Opera & Oratorio, conducting choral masterworks such as Handel's Messiah, Faure's Requiem, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.

 

In 2008, Emily became the Artistic Director of Sweet Adelines International's Bella Voce Show Chorus in Craig, Colorado, where she led the ensemble to three First-Place titles at the SAI Seven-State Annual Regional contest and on a performing tour to Hawaii in 2011. She also ran a performance studio in Colorado for nine years, specializing in Musical Theater and Opera Reviews. Emily served on the City of Grand Junction Commission for Arts and Culture and produced the annual Holiday Fundraiser Show for Hope West Hospice, which raised over $600,000 for the organization. She was also the Regional Artistic Director over a five-stake multi-media production called 18 Lives and The Book of Mormon: Embracing the Power of Jesus Christ, featuring over 700 youth from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

 

After moving to Utah, Emily joined the Morgan Valley Chamber Orchestra to prepare the chorus and conduct the first-annual Messiah in Morgan Valley. This led to the formation of the Morgan Valley Chamber Singers in 2019, which will continue to perform choral masterworks under the direction of Mrs. Pfeifer. She also became a founding board member of the Morgan Valley Arts Council in 2022, where she organized the first-annual Arts Extravaganza, featuring over 500 all-local members of the arts community in exhibits, expos, and a performing arts showcase.

 

Emily has also served as a missionary in Austria for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and worked as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer for two years in Panama. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the American Choral Directors' Association, and the National Music Honors Society Pi Kappa Lambda. Emily and her husband Jon have three sons and a mini schnauzer.

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Sharee Dickey, president

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Sharee Dickey loves the musical arts and has been a pianist and church organist from her youth. She credits her parents for providing her a practice organ at an early age. 

Sharee has studied organ with Rulon Christiansen, is a member of the American Guild of Organists and is a frequent attendee of BYU’s Organ Workshops and online training. 

 

Sharee started choir singing in junior high, was a part of her high school a cappella choir and active in dance.  She is a member of Morgan Community Choir and has been involved with the Morgan Valley Messiah productions and has directed her church choir.

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Sharee earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Weber State College in Business Administration and Master of Education from Utah State University in Instructional Technology.

 

She has served the community in various capacities and has served as a board member for a nonprofit organization to assist employees in need at her credit union. She values time spent with her family. In her free time, Sharee enjoys being outdoors, hiking or riding her e-bike with her husband.

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Sabrina Millar, secretary
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Sabrina has always had a passion for musical performances, both as an observer and a participant. Throughout her upbringing, she immersed herself in learning different musical instruments, as well as singing in school choirs. During her time at the University of Utah, she also joined the institute choir. This love for music has led her to participate in various church and community choirs, regardless of where she has lived. Presently, Sabrina is a proud member of the Morgan Valley Chamber Singers and has taken up learning the upright bass with the Morgan Valley Chamber Orchestra.
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Tiana Shelley, treasurer

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Tiana Shelley grew up in Cedar City, UT surrounded by a family of musicians. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Utah, where she privately studied jazz saxophone with Randal Clark and David Halliday, and classical voice with Julie Wright-Costa. Tiana also received vocal jazz training from Lulu Fall. During her time at the University of Utah, she performed with various jazz and classical groups such as the University of Utah Jazz Ensemble and the University of Utah Chamber Choir.

 

Currently, Tiana is a member of the Utah Symphony Chorus led by Dr. Barlow Bradford and the Grand Teton Music Festival Symphony Chorus led by Sir Donald Runnicles. She operates a vocal studio from her residence and enjoys witnessing her students' growth through music. Tiana and her husband, Alex, have four beautiful children whom they love to explore the outdoors with.

Jani Hart, publicity

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Jani fell in love with music at a very young age while living in Denver because her family owned three records: Peter and the Wolf, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and the Magic Flute. This love continued when her parents would take her to the opera or to symphonies at the Orpheum theater in Omaha, Nebraska. In San Antonio Texas, she was blessed to be in two wonderful children’s choirs, one directed by Merrilli Shumway McKee and a German choir. Jani next spent three years of her childhood in Germany where her parents and older sister participated in musical theater. Jani has sung in musicals and middle school, high school, and community choirs since then. She was able to play the organ during the Vernal Utah temple open house. She also directed a children’s choir while she lived in Arizona. Jani loves to go to the Utah Opera with her uncles and cousins and loves singing with the Morgan Valley Chamber Singers.

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S Wayne Miller, logistics manager

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S. Wayne Miller began his musical career in seventh grade and continued through high school at Ogden, where he was recognized as a Music Sterling Scholar. He later played in the Air Force Academy Band and went on to teach music for forty years in public education. While studying music in college, Miller spent four years as the stage manager for the theater at Weber State University. He has also taught band and orchestra at multiple levels and played flute for various community and church events.

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Shari Carter, soprano section leader
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Shari Carter has a deep affection for her hometown, Morgan, and its vibrant community. She dedicated 5 years to taking private voice lessons and had the pleasure of joining the Weber State Institute Chorus, as well as singing in choruses led by Micheal Webb and Kenneth Cope. For a decade, she was a proud member of the Palouse Choral Society in Washington State, where she was honored to perform multiple solos as a 1st Soprano. Currently, she serves as the President/Co-director of the Morgan Valley Children's Choir and sings with the Morgan Community Choir.
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Dixie Miller, alto section leader
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Dixie's musical journey began early, singing alongside her mother and sister. In 6th grade, she picked up the flute and continued playing in band throughout junior high and high school. Additionally, Dixie participated in her high school's small-ensemble-competition choir. Throughout her music career, Dixie has had several significant experiences, including being a part of the band and choir at Idaho State, taking part in orchestra, choir, flute lessons with Mr. Giroux at Everett Community College, performing with BYU Oratorio Choir under John Halliday and BYU Marching Band under Grant Ellington, receiving flute lessons from Ted Wight, teaching band, choir, and guitar in public schools for seven years, working as a flute teacher, serving as music director for Soft Rain Women's Group for 30 years, holding the position of Stake Music Director, being a lifelong ward choir member, and directing the music for a youth production of Steven Kapp Perry's "From Cumorah's Hill." Dixie earned her bachelor's degree in music from BYU and is currently a member of the Morgan Community Choir, where she enjoys singing alongside Emily and the rest of the group.Valley Chamber Singers twice a year in Messiah and Lamb of God.
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Robert McConnell, tenor section leader
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Robert first felt the power of musical performance as a young boy, when he sang in a children's choir at the direction of Jane Olive, an energetic woman who would yell out “Sock it to Me!” when she wanted her choir to set aside their anxieties and sing out in songs of praise. As an early teen, Robert was a sound board operator for a Las Vegas performance group. He initially just mixed the performance and enjoyed the show, but his microphone and instrument checks eventually led to a place behind a keyboard and throwing in with the vocals. Wisely, he drew the line at dancing; a “talent” Robert believes is best left for coaxing a laugh from his grandsons when he taunts them with “I love it when you call me Big Pappi!!” In a sense, singing with the Chamber Singers brings Robert full circle--Singing
wonderfully composed expressions of beauty and adoration with friends—accompanied by talented musicians and directed by an energetic woman with a unique talent to cause others to sing out in songs of praise. For Robert, the hope is simple—that someone listening to the Chamber Singers will be touched by the profoundly simple but uniquely powerful offering of raising one’s voice in shared acclamation of the thoughts, witness and wonderfully rich musical compositions that we are privileged
to perform.
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Scott Carroll, bass section leader
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Scott Carroll attended Utah State University on a music scholarship for his band expertise and completed his degree with a minor in music. He actively participated in Logan Institute's Hew Horizons Show Choir for multiple years, performing in several concerts and competitions. Additionally, he has been a part of various ward and stake choirs, where he has showcased his talent through small-group musical performances and solos for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2019, he became an inaugural member of the Morgan Valley Chamber Singers, performing Handel's Messiah. Outside of his musical endeavors, Scott is a devoted family man with a wife and five children. He enjoys running, skiing, hiking, mountain biking, traveling, and, of course, playing music!
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