Catherine Sailer is Director of Choral Studies at the University of Denver, professor of conducting, and conductor of the Lamont Chorale. She is also Associate Conductor of the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, Music Director of the Littleton Symphony Orchestra and conductor of The Evans Choir. Sailer has collaborated as chorus master with conductors Branwell Tovey, Matthew Halls, Ed Spanjaard, Eric Whitacre, Victor Yampolsky, Stephen Alltop, David Amram, Tan Dun, David Fanshawe, Yannick Nezet- Segun, Robert Spano, Hans Graf, Jeff Tyzick, and Marin Alsop. Other conducting credits include Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Central City Opera, Beijing Symphony, National Opera of China, Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Madrigal Vocale, Rhineland-Pfalz International Choir, Shanghai International Choral League, Lunds Akademiska Kor, Vox Anima London, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Sailer conducts festivals and masterclasses all around the world, including festivals in Carnegie Hall, England, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, and China and many honor choirs and workshops across the United States.
Honors and Awards include the Dale Warland Award for choral performance and Chorus America’s Robert Shaw Fellowship Award, first place in the ACDA Conducting Competition, and a special citation in the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music. Under her direction, Lamont Chorale won first place in the American Prize for choral performance and second place in the International Barenreiter Choral Competition.
Sailer received her Doctor of Music with honors in conducting from Northwestern University. Further were with Helmuth Rilling (Oregon Bach Festival), Leonard Slatkin (National Conducting Institute and National Symphony Orchestra), and as conducting fellow with the Dale Warland Singers, Kansas City Chorale, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. For the American Choral Director’s Association, she served as state president, Collegiate Repertoire/Resource Chair, Conducting Competition Chair, and International Choral Exchange Program representative to China.
Catherine Sailer joined the Littleton Symphony Orchestra as Music Director and Conductor in August 2022.
Laura Anderson Schleiger is a native of Colorado. She was born and raised in Longmont where she began studying violin at the age of three. While in Longmont, she performed with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra both as a soloist and a member. Laura received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. During her education at the University of Denver, Laura studied violin with James Maurer and Linda Wang as well as participating in master classes for Midori, Peter Oundjian, Alexander and Albert Markov and James Ehnes. While studying at DU, she earned many awards including placing in both the university's solo and chamber ensembles competitions on multiple occasions, as well as being honored with the best junior solo recital and being named the most outstanding undergraduate in performance. Her outstanding scholastic and musical achievement at DU was also recognized in her graduation with summa cum laude honors and induction into the Pi Kappa Lambda honor society. She was soloist with the Lamont Symphony in 2007 performing Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, which was reviewed in YourHub.com by Robin McNeil:
"The Saint-Saens was very well done. It was light and airy and very mellifluous. He was very sure of his violin soloist, Laura Anderson, who I might add, was superb. This young lady is truly extraordinary - she was always on pitch, and she had the kind of technique that made everything so easy...These two individuals, Ribeiro and Anderson, just made gorgeous music. "
In addition to playing with the Littleton Symphony Orchestra, Laura also performs throughout the community as a soloist and with her string quartet, teaches Suzuki violin lessons, and also plays the harp.
Jurgen de Lemos, a native of Leipzig, Germany, has been a leader in the Denver music community since joining the Denver Symphony Orchestra in 1968 as Principal Cellist. He has been the Principal Cellist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since its inception. A summa cum laude graduate in cello and composition from Hochschule fur Musik in Munich, Germany, and Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France, he has studied with André Navarra, Pablo Casals, Leonard Rose, Gregor Piatigorsky and Maurice Eisenberg. He was the youngest member of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein from 1964-68, and a winner of the Baglioni, Casals and Tchaikovsky international competitions. He also served as co-principal cellist under James Levine and Daniel Barenboim at the 1982 Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and toured three continents with the Pablo Casals Trio. Mr. de Lemos was a Professor of cello and chamber music at the University of Colorado for 23 years. His conducting skills were refined under the tutelage of Adolph Mennerich in Munich, Jean Morel and Jorge Mester at Juilliard, and Walter Susskind (Aspen). He was founder and Music Director of the Arvada Center Orchestra from 1979-86, a past conductor of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and conductor of the Boulder Youth Symphony for eight years. He has also conducted at Aspen and the Siena, Italy Contemporary Music Festival. Mr. de Lemos has also guest conducted for the Fort Collins Symphony, The Boulder Philharmonic, The Topengo Symphony and the Grand Junction Symphony. Mr. de Lemos has conducted the Littleton Symphony Orchestra since the 1990 season.
Mr. de Lemos retired from the LSO Music Director post at the end of 2021.
Board of Directors |
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Nancy Oberg | President |
Sudy Opsahl | Vice-President |
Dave Lichtenstein | Secretary |
Kristal Suter | Treasurer |
Christie Possehl | Board Member |
Cynthia Davis | Board Member |
Bobbi Jones | Board Member |
Charlie Snyder | Board Member |
Doug Moran | Board Member |
Gayle Schurz | Board Member |
Staff & Volunteers |
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Al MacDonald | Executive Director |
Dale Downing | Personnel Manager |
Kathy MacNary | Librarian |
Karen Nelson | Publicity |
Paul Schmidt | Social Media |
Neil Gillette | Stage Manager |
Liz Ohsiek | Website Design and Maintenance |
Performances that elevate the human spirit.
Violin 1
Laura Anderson Schleiger Concertmaster
Daniel McDonald Assistant Concertmaster
Christina Clarke
Julie Dexter
Beth Greene Sabbatical
Judy Grosswiler
Kate Knowles
Maeve Nagel-Frazel
Kari Shelley
Kristal Suter
Cindy Wander Fixed 3rd Chair
Gloria Wu
Violin 2
David Cher Principal
VACANT Asst. Principal
Cynthia Davis
Judy Elgethun
Heather Graddy
Bobbi Jones
Kevin Lash
Kristiana Nelson
Elizabeth Ohsiek
Christie Possehl
Kimberly Rieniets
Gayle Schurz
Oressa Wise
Viola
Loryn Gorsett Principal
Karen Nelson Asst. Principal
Neil Gillette
Lavender M Huskey
Kathy MacNary
Carin Ramirez
Anna Tang High School student member
Cello
Tara McCrory Principal
Jim Todd Asst. Principal
John Hine Sabbatical
Rebecca Jonas
Carol Loadman-Copeland Sabbatical
Andrea Meyers
Abigail Nelson
Kathy Newtson
Nicole Pierson
Richard Spritz
Bass
VACANT Principal
Tom Virtue Acting Principal
Suzanne Walters
Flute
Rosanne Sterne Principal
Jayne Copland
Kris Gensemer
Piccolo
Kris Gensemer
Clarinet
Harry Grainger Principal
Joel Lusby
Oboe
Dave Lichtenstein Principal
Bryan M. Walker Asst. Principal
English Horn
Bryan M. Walker
Bassoon
Dale H Downing Principal
Doug Moran
Horn
Janice Baugh Principal
Joni Anderson 2nd Horn
Brad Baker 3rd Horn
Kristen Lega 4th Horn
Trumpet
Rick Pelletier Principal
Leonard Fahrni
Jonathan Weedman
Trombone
John Sandusky Principal
Al MacDonald Bass Trombone
Doug Tidaback Second
Tuba
Tim Hanna
Timpani
Tony Estrada Principal
Percussion
Tony Estrada Principal
Jakob Garcia
Bill Mesa
Eric Osborne
Paul Schmidt
Alexandra (Alex) Sylvester
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