ABOUT OUR STAFF

Our Staff

These talented individuals coach, lead and inspire our ensembles.

Jane Berry

Artistic Director For ETown Minors & Augmented

Jane Berry is our resident youth wrangler, ETown Minors Director, and one of the key arrangers of the works we sing. She works her magic with singers of all ages, and does a phenomenal job of bringing out the best in the youth she works with.

Elle Lyrette, soprano coach

Elle Lyrette

Soprano Coach

Elle Lyrette was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. She moved to Winnipeg in 2008 to complete her Bachelor of Music from the University of Manitoba. While in Winnipeg, Elle was a member of two professional choirs. Elle moved back to Edmonton in 2015 and sang with Chronos Vocal Ensemble was an associate member of Pro Coro Canada. She does a variety of gigs in the Edmonton area and is very excited to be working with ETown Vocal Music Society. Elle’s passion is singing, making music with others and has a love for early music!

Jessica Heine, alto coach

Jessica Heine

Alto Coach

Jessica Heine is a “switch-singing” superstar! She’s the soprano coach for Minors and the Alto coach for Augmented. A skilled singer/songwriter in her own right, we appreciate all the expertise she shares with us each week!

Chris Scott, tenor coach

Chris Scott

Tenor Coach

Chris Scott is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong emphasis in composing music for digital media based in treaty 6 territory. He is a graduate of Berklee Valencia's Masters in Music: Scoring for FIlm, Television and Video games, as well as the Boston Conservatory's Musical Theatre BFA. He is honored to have been welcomed into ETown and is ecstatic to be coaching as the Tenor Section lead. Chris is an artist that thrives in collaborative atmospheres and can be seen working towards building his career as a music creative in Edmonton through his various independent projects, self-produced musicals and singing with Chronos Vocal Ensemble. Instagram/SoundCloud: chris.t.scott, Web: www.christopherthomasscott.com.

Tim To, Bass Coach

Tim To

Bass Coach

Tim To is known among choirs in Edmonton for his love of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and for the various tuning forks he carries around with him all the time. As a singer involved with the local classical music scene, he takes any opportunity he can to sing early music and baroque repertoire, but really he just likes singing great music with great people.

Caleb Nelson

Caleb Nelson

Vocal Specialist

Caleb Nelson is our resident master of all trades. From coaching any voice part, to arranging a majority of our mashups, to playing cajon, he does it all and makes it look effortless! We are so thankful to have him back and backing us up this season.

Our Board

Alecto Brandt

Debbie Quast

Chris Moore

Amber Othen

Sheena Brandon Geier

Darek Burdziuk

Kelly Burns

Laura Ferguson

Robin Gerow

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Laura Schultz

Need more information on any of our ensembles?

Please don't hesitate to get in touch! We are happy to answer any questions.

ETown Augmented 10th anniversary season

ETown Augmented is 10!

Our sincere thanks to everyone who has added their voice to out ensembles and to those who have supported our adult choir for these last 10 years!