Current Quodlibet Members
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Anita AmstutzSopranoe-mail: afasinger@rt66.comAnita Amstutz was born and raised in Northeastern Ohio. She is an ordained Mennonite Minister at Albuquerque Mennonite Church. In her spare time, she enjoys good food, chai lattés, reading, rollerblading, skiing and hiking -- and having sung 4 part harmony since a wee child, she knows that singing is soul-food of the best kind! |
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Anita ReiserSopranoe-mail: timmreiser@cs.comAnita Reiser grew up in Santa Fe, where she started choral singing in high school. She is an engineer by day and a soprano on the weekends. Since the fall of 1995, she has been a member of Quodlibet. She and her husband have two teenagers and also enjoy committing homeowner projects against their house. |
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Leslie ElmoreSopranoe-mail: ceylonna@comcast.net |
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Nancy ThompsonSopranoe-mail: trib_force2001@yahoo.comNancy Thompson was born in Philadelpia, PA., raised in Michigan, went to school in Minnesota, and lives in New Mexico. She began studying music at 3 and it has enriched her life ever since. By day Nancy works as an air traffic controller, by night she sings soprano with Quodlibet. Being a part of this group has been a blessing. |
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Anne SensenigAltoe-mail: anne.daniel@juno.comWith family roots in Pennsylvania, Anne grew up in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Viet Nam. Although she has had little formal music training, musical parents and a good ear have allowed her entry into the world of vocal/choral music. Daily chapel services at the Mennonite high school she attended initiated her into the world of 4-part harmony and reading written music - still a foreign language for her at times! A lesson she learned in Nicaragua where she worked for several years is that most adults feel inadequate/self-conscious about singing in public, and that an adequate voice combined with confidence can lead to a musical leadership role. Besides leading music in church, Anne has been part of several community choruses. Music, especially a cappella harmony singing, is soul food for her, and she enjoys facilitating singing by "ordinary" people, and teaching part singing. |
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Emily MooreAltoe-mail: emily@edmphd.comEmily Moore is originally from Boston, where she grew up in a family of madrigal singers and sang in various choral groups all through school and college. After a long hiatus, during which she pursued other artistic and professional interests and only sang in the car, she was happy to join Quodlibet in the fall of 1996. She is also a psychologist and a parent of two teenagers. |
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Jessica WilderAltoe-mail: medievalvox@hotmail.comJessica Wilder is originally from Minnesota and moved to Albuquerque eight years ago. She has enjoyed singing music, dancing ballet and studying French most of her life. Jessica also sings in a Women's Medieval Ensemble at Faith Lutheran Church. She plans to attend the Aveda Institute de Bellas Artes in order to acquire her esthetician license. |
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Loretta RobinsonAltoe-mail: musicians4u@earthlink.netMaster Chorales and Symphony Orchestras, Opera Productions, adapting children's literature into operas, Musical Theater, producing Renaissance Feasts and Faires, teaching and administering music programs from 4 year olds to college students are what make up Loretta's time on this earth plane. Being able to continue these activities are what make Loretta want to wake up each morning. Quodlibet is definitely a part of what continues to be a wonderful musical journey. |
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Trish HenningAltoe-mail: henning@as.unm.eduFor my "day job", I'm a professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNM, with my current science focus being the study of galaxies behind our own Milky Way galaxy. I use radio telescopes around the world to do this research. When I'm not doing astronomy, teaching, or singing with Quodlibet, I sing with Las Cantantes, the women's choir at UNM. On occasion, I am at home with my husband Tony and our two cats. |
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Carl StengerTenore-mail: crstengeriv@comcast.netCarl has been singing as long as anyone cares to remember. Classically trained from an early age, he has been a member of countless civic, school, and church choirs. Early music and madrigals (in particular) are Carl’s focus as he is thoroughly convinced that very little music (of any merit or consequence) has been composed since 1750. |
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Dennis VikTenore-mail: dvik@comcast.netDennis Vik didn't start singing until he was all grown up. He sang with the La Jolla Renaissance Singers in San Diego for three years before he moved to Albuquerque. Then he sang with the NM Symphony Chorus for ten years. After a two-year break from singing, he joined Quodlibet, and loves every minute of it. |
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Tom WoffordTenore-mail: tomwof@yahoo.comTom Wofford is a professional physicist, international folk dancer, occasional recorder-player, life-long singer, role-playing gamer, and expert ham. He is the father of two sons. Tom moved to Albuquerque from Missouri in the summer of 2002, and joined Quodlibet for the Spring 2004 season. |
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Daniel ErdmanBaritonee-mail: anne.daniel@juno.comBorn and raised in Oaxaca, México (his parents moved there from Albuquerque in the early 1940's), Daniel (pronounced the Spanish way) returned to New Mexico in 1973 after college and can't seem to stay away, sort of like one of those rubber balls tethered to a paddle by a long rubber band. Besides performing guitar and vocals in various Latin American musical styles, Daniel is an accomplished MIDI player. Prior to joining Quodlibet in the fall of 2004, he had sung with the Princeton University Glee Club, the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel Choir, Coro Parajón-Domínguez de Managua, the Hiram Hershey Chorale, Nuevo México ¡Presente!, Cáscara and the Cucarach, and an anonymous barbershop quartet -- all without ever learning to read music. |
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Derek BernerBaritonee-mail: derek@bernerbits.com derek.berner@state.nm.usDerek Berner was born and raised in Wheaton, IL, attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, taking a year off to spend working in California, and moved to New Mexico in 2004, joining Quodlibet shortly thereafter in the spring 2005 season. He has been involved in musical groups since a young age, including various church, community, and school choirs, ensembles, and bands (of the guitar-keyboard-drumset-vocal variety). Prior to Quodlibet, his most recent membership was with the Cornell University Glee Club. Derek's father, Randall Berner, is also a member of Quodlibet. |
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Hank HappBasse-mail: hank.happ@ara.comHank was born in Philadelphia, PA, and raised there and in Cherry Hill, NJ. He has been singing since 1968 when he was part of the USAF Academy Catholic Cadet Choir and the Chorale. He has sung with church choirs and praise teams ever since, and had a few year stint with the NMSO Chorus in the 70's and early 80's (until the kids arrived!). During the day he works as a scientific computer programmer, a job he's done for over 30 years for various DoD-related companies and organizations in Albuquerque and Phoenix. He joined Quodlibet for the Fall 2004 season, and he's enjoying it a lot! He thanks Tom Wofford for inviting him to audition. |
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Jack KaemperBasse-mail: caroloma@aol.comJack, a native of Las Vegas, NM, and a graduate of the University of New Mexico, retired after thirty-five years with Albuquerque Public Schools. He has sung bass in Quodlibet since the fall of 1996. For over twenty-five years, he has been an active member of the First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir and sings occasionally with Fourth Street Sound, their Contemporary Choir. He and his wife, Carol, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 2007. They have two daughters, a son, and two grandchildren. And they are now ruled by a short-haired, miniature, Dachshund named Henry. |
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Randall BernerBasse-mail: bpianos@aol.com randall.berner@valueoptions.comRandall Berner was born in Detroit, Michigan, and began singing in the "Joy Club" choir at his church at age 3. At age 4, he began piano lessons and began taking organ lessons at age 10. By age 12, he was playing the organ weekly for church services, and continued this through High School. At the age of 16, Randall began tuning and repairing pianos, apprenticed with master craftsmen, and got his certification/licensure in piano technology. After his move to Illinois, he started college, and during college, began and grew a very large piano tuning and repair business. Randall received a Bachelor's of Music Degree in Classical Pipe Organ Performance at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. For 32 years, he held various organist positions including the final 21 years at the historic Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton, IL. During this time, he also received a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, and became independently licensed in Illinois, practicing as a psychotherapist. Randall retired from the church music profession in 2003, sold his piano service business, moved briefly to Seattle, WA, then to Albuquerque in 2004. He is now independently licensed as a psychotherapist in New Mexico, and currently works as a Field Care Manager for Value Options: a company that manages Medicaid mental health benefits for the entire state. He also continues his work part time as a licensed piano technician in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe areas. |