/* Members' bios and pictures */

/* Sabrina */
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var biotext1 = '<b>Sabrina Adler</b> is a San Francisco native and a founding member of Musae. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her law degree from Stanford University. She currently works in the area of public health law and policy. During her free time, she enjoys cycling, exploring the numerous hiking trails throughout the Bay Area, cooking, traveling, and crossword puzzles.<br /><br />Sabrina has been singing since 1988, when she joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus. She sang with the Girls Chorus in various ensembles until 1998, and then sang with the Brown University Chorus from 1999-2000. Prior to Musae\'s inception in 2004, she was a member of the women\'s vocal ensembles Ars Cantus and In Treble.';
/* Kirstin */
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var biotext2 = '<b>Kirstin Cummings</b> grew up in the Bay Area singing with the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Since then, her other choral endeavors have included early music group Ars Cantus and the Stanford Chamber Chorale. She has sung with Musae since its inception.<br /><br />Kirstin graduated from Stanford University with a BS in symbolic systems and an MA in music, science, and technology.';
/* Amy */
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var biotext3 = '<b>Amy Fickenscher</b> joined the artistic faculty of the San Francisco Girls Chorus in 2009. She is the Director of Chorus School Level II, the Preparatory Chorus, and directs the SFGC Outreach Programs. Amy holds a Bachelor and a Master of Music in Music Education from the University of Oregon. While at the University of Oregon, she performed with several of the UO choirs and the Eugene Symphony Chorus.</p><br /><p>Amy has served as an elementary music specialist in the Los Gatos Union School District in Los Gatos, California and the South Lane County School District in Cottage Grove, Oregon. She holds Level I Orff Schulwerk Certification and is the process of completing the Kod&aacute;ly Summer Certificate at Holy Names University. </p><br /><p>Amy has given workshops and presented research in Oregon and California. She has presented at professional development sessions for the San Francisco Opera\'s ARIA Network and the Moss Street Child Development Center in Eugene, Oregon.  Amy has also served as a guest instructor for the University of Oregon Community Music Institute.</p><br /><p>Amy began singing with Musae in the fall of 2010. She is excited to take on the role of co-artistic director of Musae and is looking forward to a wonderful spring season.';
/* Amy */
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var biotext4 = '<b>Amy Hayes</b> found her love for music at the ripe old age of three, when her grandmother took her to a concert at the Museum of Modern Art. That event set in motion a lifelong journey through the world of music. During her 14 years in the San Francisco Girls Chorus, starting from the bottom and working her way to the top touring ensemble, Amy learned many valuable lessons and met amazing people who are still her friends today. Amy has been a member of Musae since its founding, and enjoys getting together each week with these fabulous women to make the world a better place.<br /><br />Amy lives in San Francisco with her husband, Dave, and her two daughters, Kaia, age six, and Makenna, age one. When she is not singing, Amy is a full-time preschool teacher and mother. While her favorite activity is spending time with her family, in the few hours she has to herself, she enjoys reading, scrapbooking, and crossword puzzles.';
/* Lauren */
var name5 = "Lauren";
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var biotext5 = '<b>Lauren Hoover-Gordon</b> first discovered her love of music when she joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus at the age of seven. She continued to sing in a variety of groups through college, including in the Whitman Chorale and Chamber Ensemble. She also discovered her passion for vocal percussion while singing with her beloved a cappella group, the Sirens of Swank.<br /><br />A San Francisco native, Lauren holds a BA in psychology from Whitman College and currently works in advertising sales at Google. When she is not singing, Lauren loves to ski, bake chocolate chip cookies, and travel.';
/* Katie */
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var biotext6 = '<b>Katie Innes</b> began singing with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at the age of nine. Her parents had no knowledge of her interest in singing at the time of her audition and were, therefore, quite surprised when she was accepted. She sang with the Girls Chorus until 2002, when she moved away to attend Whitman College. There she majored in theatre; minored in anthropology, education, and history; and sang in the college chorale and chamber ensemble.<br /><br />Katie currently works at the World Affairs Council in the programs department. In her spare time, she likes trying new recipes, taking urban hikes, learning Icelandic, and planning for her July 2012 wedding.';
/* Allison */
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var biotext7 = '<b>Allison Lynk</b> has always been the family songbird, keeping up a running soundtrack of humming, singing, and whistling. She got her musical start singing in the choirs at Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey. As a member of the Swinging \'Gates, Colgate University\'s all-female a cappella group, Allison gained an appreciation for the unique sound and sisterhood of singing with women. This eventually led her to sing with Melodia Women\'s Choir in New York City and, most recently, Musae.<br /><br />A creative soul, Allison has been working in the advertising industry for the past eight years.<br /><br />She recently moved to San Francisco from New York, and is enjoying exploring her new city. In her spare time, she works on various crafty projects for her home, family, and friends. She loves wandering with her camera and is especially inspired by the history, architecture, and beautiful vistas of San Francisco.';
/* Joyce */
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var biotext8 = '<b>Joyce Lin-Conrad</b> holds a BA in English and American literature from Princeton University and is a graduate of the Professional Chef\'s Program at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. She is the program coordinator at the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, an organization that promotes and supports outdoor learning environments within the San Francisco Unified School District.<br /><br />Joyce has sung with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the Berkeley Opera, the Princeton University Chamber Choir, and the Princeton Katzenjammers. She enjoys the serial comma, foraging for mulberries, breakfast at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, Lennon as well as McCartney, and is a passionate foul-weather fan of the Oakland Athletics. She lives on the edge of San Francisco\'s sun belt with her triathlete, Mark, and their two-foot-tall daughter, Penelope.';
/* Michela */
var name9 = "Michela";
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var biotext9 = '<b>Michela Macfarlane</b> maintains an active and colorful musical lifestyle. Formally, she holds two honors degrees in music: a BA in voice from UC San Diego and a MM in early vocal performance from Longy School of Music. At both schools, she was named "the most outstanding graduating student in music." Beginning in 1998, Michela enjoyed eight years of appearing with professional baroque ensembles and choirs, most notably Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, the Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Bach Ensemble, and Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Internationally, she has sung on stages in Israel, Romania, and the UK, and spent two separate years living and studying in Venice, Italy. Recently, Michela crossed over to the world of jazz and pop, where she currently sings with Cantamos in the Murphys area.<br /><br />Michela lives on the edge of Glen Park in her new home with her husband, her vigorous three-year-old son, and their brand new baby. She is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and, most importantly, a full-time mother. Michela delights in speaking Italian, cooking on her Wolf stove, and exploring new corners of San Francisco on a daily basis.';
/* Laney */
var name10 = "Laney";
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var biotext10 = '<p>As a life-long choral musician, <b>Laney McClain</b> is very excited to be the co-artistic director of Musae this spring. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Afro-American Studies, a M.M. from the University of Oregon in Choral Conducting, and she is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Washington in Choral Conducting. She is  working on her dissertation about the Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek and his arrangements of religious folksongs.</p><br /><p>Laney served as the Harvard University Fellow at the Bryanston School in Blandford, England, where she taught history, general music and choir. Additionally, she taught middle school and high school choir at the St. Stephen\'s and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, VA, where she also assisted in producing the school\'s musical and in coordinating music for bi-weekly chapel services. While attending graduate school in Oregon, Laney served as the Teaching Assistant for the University of Oregon University Singers, as well as singing in several ensembles. At the University of Washington, she was a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow studying Estonian, and also served as the Assistant Conductor of the University of Washington Men\'s Glee Club.</p><br /><p>Currently, Laney is the Level III director at the San Francisco Girls Chorus, where she also works with the Prep Chorus and with school outreach programs. Laney began signing with Musae in the fall of 2011, and she is excited to continue to explore her love of women\'s choral music in this new capacity.</p>';
/* Valerie */
var name11 = "Valerie";
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var biotext11 = '<b>Valerie Moy</b> has been hooked on music since starting Music Time at the age of two. At age seven, she joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus, where she sang for eleven years. Since then, she has sung with many groups, including the La Jolla Symphony Chorus, UCLA\'s all-female a cappella group Random Voices, and the International Orange Chorale.<br /><br />Valerie graduated from UCLA with a BA in English, and currently lives, plays, cooks, and eats in San Francisco. She enjoys exploring previously unknown pockets of the city, refusing to follow recipes, and instigating spontaneous Christmas carol sing-alongs at inappropriate times of the year.';
/* Colleen */
var name12 = "Colleen";
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var biotext12 = 'An East Bay native, <b>Colleen O\'Hara</b> has been singing for as long as she can remember. Her musical career has taken her through many years with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, an adventure in singing with men with the University of Southern California Concert Choir, and now as a member of Musae.<br /><br />A graduate of USC with a BA in public relations and French, Colleen works as a senior database consultant for a New York-based firm. She currently lives in Berkeley with her husband, Brendan, and adventurer cat, Riley. In between work and Musae, Colleen enjoys gardening and growing vegetables in their sunny yard and all the fantastic food that Berkeley and the East Bay have to offer.';
/* Abby */
var name13 = "Abby";
var img13 = "abby.jpg";
var biotext13 = '<b>Abby Ramsden</b> was kicked out of Catholic school at age five because (among other things) she would not stop singing, often in inappropriate places. Since then, she has found a musical home in a number of fine choruses, including the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Ensemble Vocale Rennes, Williams College Ephoria, the Choir of Lincoln College Oxford, the Arcadian Singers, the Aspen Community Chorus, Ars Cantus, In Treble, and finally, Musae.<br /><br />Abby holds degrees from Williams College and UC Hastings and currently practices law with Conservation Partners. When not at work, she likes to cook, ski, hike, argue, and laugh.';

/* Callie */
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var biotext1 = 'Originally hailing from the Midwest, <b>Callie Mescher</b> holds a BA in music education and vocal performance from Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. She has most recently sung in the Boston Choral Ensemble and is excited to have relocated and be singing again with a new group.<br /><br />Callie is currently teaching Music Together classes for toddlers, sign &amp; sing, and Spanish. When not singing or teaching, Callie loves participating in any number of outdoor activities and exploring the area. She enjoys sporting events, especially volleyball, snowboarding, and triathlons.';*/
/* Katherine */
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var biotext14 = '<b>Katherine Robinson</b> launched her singing career as Maria in The Sound of Music in the third grade. After receiving formal training from the San Francisco Girls Chorus, she performed as a soloist at the North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals, directed her college and graduate school a cappella groups, and dropped a few voice parts in Ars Cantus. She joined Musae in 2004.<br /><br />Katherine holds a BA from Duke University and an MA in international affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is an assistant director of the Global Management Program at Stanford University\'s Graduate School of Business. She lives on the Peninsula with her husband, daughter, and basset hound.';*/




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