Anthony Antolini has been Artistic Director of Down East Singers since
1991. He graduated from Bowdoin College and holds graduate degrees
in music and Slavic Studies from Stanford University. In high school in
New York his musical mentor was conductor Thomas Dunn. His
conducting teachers include Harold C. Schmidt (Stanford University),
Charlene Archibeque (San Jose State University), Helmuth Rilling
(International Bach Academy) and Vladimir Minin (Moscow Chamber
Choir). In 2021 he retired from his position on the faculty at Bowdoin
College where he conducted the Bowdoin Chorus for 30 years. In 1988
he published the first modern, bilingual edition of Sergei
Rachmaninoff’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. His award-winning
television documentary on this subject, “Rediscovering Rachmaninoff,”
has been broadcast on public television nationally. In 1999 he was a
featured speaker at the national convention of the American Choral
Directors Association (ACDA) and in 2000 at the ACDA convention in
Baltimore, Maryland. His editions of choral music are published by E.C.
Schirmer and Paraclete Press. He was elected by the Maine Chapter of
ACDA as “Conductor of the Year” for the 1999–2000 season. He is also
Music Director at the Episcopal Church of St. John Baptist in Thomaston,
and a faculty member of the New England Suzuki Institute at Colby
College in Waterville. He lives in Cushing with his wife, Ann Greenleaf, a
dog and two cats.

Jennifer McIvor became Down East Singers’ accompanist in September 2010 and
Assistant Music Director in 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Loyola
University in New Orleans and a Master of Music in Music Education from New
England Conservatory, where she studied piano with Gabriel Chodos.

Ms. McIvor teaches music at Georgetown Central School and music and art at Southport Central School in addition to her work as a piano teacher at her home studio in Wiscasset. Prior to moving to Maine, she taught at Arlington Catholic School in Arlington, Massachusetts, the Learning Project Elementary School and Newton Preparatory School in Boston, and at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and the National Association for Music Education.

Sopranos

Bridget Conway
Rebecca Hansard
Susan Hyde
Chris McClarty
Mary Nelson
Lucy Nutter (Puryer)
Anne Roundy
Kathe Storholt
India Wolterstorff

Altos

Merrilee Brown
Margery Cuyler
Jean Goldfine
Anita Goodwin
Ann Greenleaf
Charlotte Gulezian
Rona Hokanson
Emily Jenks
Jeanne Klainer
Sue Klemmer
Carter Meyer
Anna Rose
Rachel Snow
Demi Sperazza
Susan St. John
Marti Stone

Tenors

Deb Brady
Jeffrey Kaufmann
Siobhan Kelly
Benjamin Matos
Jim Pacheco
Kirsten Staples

Baritones/Basses

Scott Bell
David Blanchard
Eric Evans
Ross Faneuf
Mark McAllister
Bruce Meyer
Nick Railsback
Bill Studebaker
Peter Warren
John Wood