Staff
David Bell
Director, Golden Concert Choir
David Bell is Music Director and Conductor of the Golden Concert Choir, having directed them since 2007. He is a conductor and composer native to and living in Denver. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Colorado College, earning the David and Karen Smith Cowperthwaite Prize for Excellence in Music. He then moved to Boston, where he attended New England Conservatory and received a Master of Music with honors and a Graduate Diploma, studying composition with an emphasis in conducting.
While at Colorado College, Mr. Bell was selected to conduct the college choir at his graduation Baccalaureate, a traditional honor for the best student in the music program’s conducting class. Also in Colorado Springs, he conducted a high school choir in singing his own work—a piece that was commissioned by the choir’s director.
After finishing at New England Conservatory, Mr. Bell was selected to direct the choir at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The choir, a group of volunteers from the congregation, varied greatly in vocal ability and experience. Mr. Bell helped to improve the choir’s ensemble and performance skills, as well as their understanding of the works they sang. Following on the positive results of this endeavor, he proposed, planned, and helped the choir prepare for their first full-length concert, which became an annual event during his tenure at St. Andrew’s.
David is currently the choir director at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Denver. While at St. Barnabas, Mr. Bell has planned music and helped the choir prepare for its gift to the congregation on Christmas Eve, a half-hour concert. He has also instituted a major spring performance with the choir over the past few years, performing major choral works relating to Good Friday. He has also helped it prepare two performances of “Music’s on the Menu,” a musical revue dinner performance, as a fundraiser for the church. One year, the performance involved works of musical theater, and the next was a selection of big band jazz, Dixieland, and other popular 1930s and ’40s songs.
Mr. Bell is also a composer and has written works for a variety of ensembles, both choral and instrumental, and for solo voice and instruments. He received a grant from the State of Massachusetts for a chamber work included in a Contemporary Composers concert. He has been commissioned for several works, including a piece for mezzo soprano and string orchestra, a work for Native American flute, and a choral work with organ and solo trumpet that was performed by the St. Barnabas Choir in March 2007. The Golden Concert Choir performed his Elegy in December of 2010.
Judy Tisch
Director, Children’s Choir of Golden
Judy Tisch is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Children’s Choir of Golden. She is a graduate of Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a degree of Bachelor of Music with majors in voice and organ. She has graduate studies in Vocal Performance from Western Michigan University, graduate studies in Liturgy from the University of Notre Dame, and graduate studies in organ from the University of Houston. She has taught choral programs in high school, middle school, and elementary school. She has served as organist and Music Director in Michigan and Texas. Judy was Teacher of the Year at Oak Creek Elementary School in Texas. She was former Music Supervisor for the University of Houston. She has directed choirs in Rome, the Vatican, the Pentagon, and the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. Judy directed the Good News Chorale for ten years and wrote choral compositions which were sung in Rome by both this group and combined church choirs. The American Guild of Organists in Michigan sang one of her compositions in February 2011.
Anne Lopez
Accompanist
Anne Kingham Lopez began taking music lessons at the age of five. Since then, she has studied piano and flute as well as music theory. Anne has sung in several choirs since the age of eight including the choirs of Colorado Advocates for Home School Arts, the Lamont Women’s Chorus, the Golden Concert Choir, and her church choir. She has enjoyed working with the Golden Community Choirs, and this is her sixth year as their accompanist. Anne graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in December 2010 with a degree in mechanical engineering. She works as a professional accompanist for her church choir and several instrumentalists.
