Glenn Siebert
Glenn Siebert has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Flanders Philharmonic, and Hamburgische Staatsoper, San Francisco, Washington, Santa Fe operas. His interest in baroque music has led to performances with such original instrument ensembles as Philharmonia Baroque, Boston Baroque, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and Anima Etena in Brussels. Mr. Siebert’s recordings include Mendelssohn’s Paulus with the Royal Scottish Orchestra, Schubert’s Mass in E flat with the Atlanta Symphony and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Anima Eterna and Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Seattle Symphony. He has been on the voice faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts since 1991. He is Music Director at historic Home Moravian Church in Old Salem.
Timothy Olsen
Timothy Olsen serves a joint faculty position as Kenan Associate Professor of Organ at UNCSA and Associate Professor of Organ at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. He also serves as Cantor (Organist/Music Director) at Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem where he oversees a thriving music program. As a recitalist, Dr. Olsen performs solo organ recitals, as well as trumpet/organ duo recitals with Judith Saxton. He also frequently presents masterclasses and workshops for universities and chapters of the American Guild of Organists, and has been a featured artist at AGO Region conventions as recitalist and workshop presenter. Dr. Olsen holds degrees from Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) and the Eastman School of Music (MM and DMA). Past faculty positions include Ithaca College and Oklahoma City University, as well as sabbatical replacements at Cornell University and Binghamton University. Dr. Olsen was the first-prize winner of the 2002 AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP). He has recorded compact discs on the NAXOS and Raven labels (including works recorded for the first time), and has been featured multiple times on American Public Media’s Pipedreams, WCPE’s (Raleigh, NC) Great Sacred Music, and WXXI’s (Rochester, NY) With Heart and Voice.
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Charli Mills
Soprano Charli Mills enjoys a varied career as a vocalist and church musician. As a singer, she specializes in Baroque, ensemble, and new music. Charli regularly appears with Salem Baroque (formerly the Salem Bach Festival), where she is also a founding member of the board and executive leadership team. In June, she was the vocal fellow at Bach Akademie Charlotte and featured soloist for BWV 61 and 10. She has also appeared as soloist and ensemble member for Duke University Chapel’s Bach Cantata Series, performing Bach’s St. John Passion, Cantatas 48, 70, 106, 125, 131, 150, and Kuhnau’s Ich habe Lust. She has been featured as soloist for regional performances of Carissimi’s Jephte (Filia), Bach’s Coffee Cantata (Lieschen), Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Rutter’s Requiem and Gloria, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and many other works. Charli is also active as an ensemble musician, singing regularly with the Evensong Octet of First Presbyterian Church and with the Winston-Salem Choral Artists, who recently performed James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words and Dan Forrest’s Creation. Her recent premiere of O Come: A Cycle of Advent Sonnets by UNCSA professor Michael Dodds was received to great applause.
Charli has worked as a church music director for more than ten years and has conducted masterworks including Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, Taylor Scott Davis’ Magnificat, Michael John Trotta’s Seven Last Words, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. She currently serves as Director of Traditional Music at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in High Point, NC, and formerly served at Mount Tabor UMC in Winston-Salem, NC. Outside of church, she has served as assistant conductor for the Piedmont Chamber Singers, assistant conductor for Piedmont Opera’s production of Il Trovatore, and as director of the women’s choir of Methodist University.
Vivian Mayers
Vivian Mayers is a violinist and educator living in Winston-Salem, NC. She specializes in the performance of early music (music written before c. 1750) and holds a Master's degree in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School. Ms. Mayers has appeared in concert with chamber ensembles and orchestras such as Les Arts Florissants, Juilliard Baroque, the Yale Baroque Opera Project, Valley of the Moon Music Festival, the Elm City Consort, The Sebastians, and the Salem Bach Festival. She was a founding member of the Arrow Quartet, a NYC-based ensemble that performs early repertoire for string quartet on historical instruments. Ms. Mayers is a section violinist in the Winston-Salem Symphony, performing under the baton of Michelle Merrill.
Ms. Mayers works with violin students of all ages (her current students range from 3 to 60 years old). She has completed teacher training from the Suzuki Association of the Americas in Violin Units 1 and 2, as well as teacher training in the Kaleidoscopes method for violin, Unit 1. Ms. Mayers has extensive experience as an individual tutor, providing English and writing instruction to students grades K-12. She worked as a third grade classroom teacher at the Arts Based School in Winston-Salem, NC. Ms. Mayers graduated from Yale University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
