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ABOUT AUGUSTANA
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Augustana Arts brings Joy, Comfort, and Hope to our Community.
In 1997 the Augustana Concert Series received its 501(c)(3) status under the name Augustana Arts, setting a new course and presenting renowned artists from around the world: the Eric Erickson Chamber Choir, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Eton College Choir, the Swingle Singers, organist Dame Gillian Weir, The Real Group vocal jazz quintet (Sweden), Indian sitarist Kartik Seshadri, and the I Musici de Montreal Chamber Orchestra, to name a few. Augustana Arts also provides a venue
for Colorado artists such as the Rocky Mountain Children's Choir,
Singers Masterchorale, the Colorado Choir, and the Mercury Ensemble
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VOLUNTEER
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| Augustana Arts always welcomes volunteers! We have many
opportunities to help with ushering and ticket sales at events, doing
mailings, posting flyers, hosting receptions, helping with office work,
hosting fundraising parties, and all other activities that help us serve
our audiences and performing partners! Free tickets to events is just one of the perks we offer in appreciation of our volunteers! If you would like offer to usher at an upcoming event, help us in the office, serve punch and cookies to our visiting artists, or just get more information, please contact us either by phone at (303) 388-4962, or by email at info@augustanaarts.org. |
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If you would like to ask a question, here's where
to go!
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MAILING ADDRESS: 5000 E. Alameda Ave Denver, CO 80246 Augustana Arts is a 501(c)(3) organization |
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Augustana Arts Staff
Karen Aarestad Email: karen@augustanaarts.org Phone: 303.503.4584
Augustana Institute of Music (AIM) Director 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.
Program
Administrator
Principal Conductor, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra Email: csailer@du.edu
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. Principal Conductor, Colorado Women's Chorale Charlotte Adams Email: char@spruce.net
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.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Wes Munsil, President |
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Karen Aarestad joined Augustana Arts as Executive Director in September 2006. Before moving to Denver in 2004, she studied and worked in England. She received her MBA from London Business School in 1995 and then worked in development for both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. However, her real passion is the Arts. When she is not at Augustana, her time is devoted to her two young children, Sofia (4) and Brynn (2). 
Michelle
Winzent is the Program Administrator for Augustana Arts, Augustana
Institute of Music, City Strings, and the Colorado Women’s
Chorale and is the Secretary for the First Presbyterian Church of
Lakewood. She also volunteers her time for Stober Elementary PTA
as Treasurer, Carnival Chair and Silent Auction Chair; Manning School
PTA as Yearbook Chair; Jefferson County PTA as Articulation Area
Vice President for Golden/Green Mountain; and President of the Denver
School of Gymnastics Booster Club. Her interests include traveling,
spending time with family & friends, and shopping. 
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.