Director

Ms. Marcela Molina (began as Artistic Director in the fall of 2006)

A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Marcela Molina is currently completing her doctoral studies in choral conducting at the University of Arizona. She holds a master’s degree in choral conducting and a bachelor’s degree in theory and composition from the University of Arizona and Westminster Choir College, respectively.

From 2003-2006, Ms. Molina was the assistant conductor of the prestigious Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus.  In addition, she has conducted numerous performances and rehearsals at The University of Arizona—including the University Community Chorus, the women’s choir of the Vocal Arts Festival and the Arizona Choir—as well as the Tucson Masterworks Chorale and the professional choir, Tucson Chamber Artists, where she was guest conductor for the 2005 Holiday Season.  In 2002 Ms. Molina was on the theory faculty for the select Young Artist Certificate Program at the Westminster Conservatory, the community music school of Westminster Choir College.  

As a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Ms. Molina sang under the batons of Joseph Flummerfelt, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zdenek Macal, and Sir Colin Davis with such esteemed orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  Ms. Molina has studied under the tutelage of Drs. Bruce Chamberlain, Elizabeth Schauer, James Jordan, and Andrew Megill, and Professor Allan Crowell. In the fall of 2005, she contributed four articles to the book Teaching through Performance in Choir, Volume 2.

Chris Fresolone, DMA

Chris directs the Mariposa Singers and is the accompanist and assistant conductor for the Jubilate and Advanced Choirs. He coordinates the theory curriculum for the Tucson Girls Chorus and teaches theory to the Mariposa Singers and Advanced Choir.

Chris has recently completed his doctoral studies in organ performance with a minor in choral conducting from the University from Arizona. He is also organist at Casas Adobes UCC Church in Tucson.

Before arriving in Tucson in 2006, Chris lived in the Seattle area, where he was a church musician, music educator, and musical theatre director. Chris served as musical director for productions including Bye Bye Birdie, Footloose, Nunsense, and the Taxi Caberet, which Chris first directed for the Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals in Issaquah, WA.

Chris received a bachelor's degree in music, a bachelor's degree in computer studies, and a master's degree in music technology, from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  While a student at Northwestern, Chris worked for Harmonic Vision, where he helped develop and support music educational software from the award winning Music Ace series. Several of Chris's original compositions appear within the software! Chris also served as organ scholar and assistant conductor for the Northwestern University Chapel Choir.

Chris is originally from New Jersey; during his high school years he performed (and was president of) in his high school choir and the Buttondowns, the school's select men's vocal ensemble. He played in the pit bands for the musicals at his school and at local colleges (including Godspell, Into the Woods, and Pippen), and he played the French Horn in the New Jersey Youth Symphony.

Chris fancies himself as a composer and arranger; he will actually call himself a composer once he is published! He has composed or arranged a few works for the Tucson Girls Chorus, and several small works for the organ.