2014 Presenters

Linda Margetts

Linda Margetts is one of five organists at the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City (1984 to present) where her responsibilities include playing noon recitals, accompanying and working with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, teaching in the choir school and participating on the broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word.

As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah (1999 to present), she teaches organ performance majors and is coordinator of a group organ program.

Dr. Margetts holds bachelor and master’s degrees in organ performance from Brigham Young University where she studied with Dr. Parley Belnap. She received a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Utah.

She is active as a recitalist. She is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists (FAGO) and her past service in that organization includes Dean and State Chairman positions.

She and her husband, Bert, are parents of six children.

Nancy Bair

Nancy is a board certified music therapist and classical trained violinist. She has worked primarily with dementia and stroke patients. Nancy specializes in aphasia as a result of brain injury. She uses Melodic Intonation Therapy whereby patients with aphasia work to regain their speaking voices through music therapy techniques. She also works with special needs children as well as those with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has played in many ensembles over the years and teaches violin and orchestra as well.

Nancy and her husband, Jason, live in Camas, WA, and have four children, Alyson (9) and Ashley (7) and twins Katelyn and Ryan (21months). Besides music and being a busy mom, Nancy enjoys the outdoors, water sports, gardening, reading, eating good chocolate, and relaxing with family and friends.

Kay Card

Kay has spent her lifetime finding joy and peace and awe through music. She was taught organ and piano by her grandmother and her father. She played cello in junior high and high school and performed in the Utah Valley Youth Symphony with Dr. A. Harold Goodman. She has participated in several women’s choirs, Stan Gilbert Singers, Barrie Best Chorale and most recently the Portland Ensign Choir and Orchestra. She has studied piano and currently studies organ.. She has served as stake and ward music chair, choir director and currently serves as ward organist and Primary teacher. She teaches piano and organ and loves her students, encouraging them to learn to not only play the music but to love the music and feel the music. Kay has been a part of the Portland Regional Music Workshop committee since 1995 and has been blessed with many lifelong friends in the music community. “Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.” (Gladstone)

Emily Duke Kalteich

Emily Kalteich currently teaches music lessons (voice, piano, clarinet) from her home with Emily’s Music Studio (www.facebook.com/emilysmusic) and with TakeLessons. She studied vocal performance and clarinet at Brigham Young University, Provo and graduated with a bachelor of music degree in 2007. Her favorite musical experiences there included singing with the BYU Singers for four years and also researching Latin American art songs and performing them in recitals throughout Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru. Since then she has lived in Portland and sung as a soprano with Portland Opera Chorus, Opera Theater Oregon, and Cantico. One of the most memorable experiences from Emily’s teaching career has been teaching voice and keyboard lessons to homeless youth at a drop-in center downtown. She has also loved being a ward choir director and singing loudly in church, always hoping that others will do the same. If you have any questions for Emily, please contact her at: emilykalteich@hotmail.com.

Emily currently sings with the Portland Symphonic Choir.

Jeanine Orme

Jeanine R. Orme was born in Ogden, Utah. She graduated from Weber State with a B.S. in Business Administration-Marketing and a minor in Music.

Her musical training includes classical piano and violin and she has specialized in oldtime fiddling, Texas-style fiddling, bluegrass fiddle, and Western swing. She is a past Utah State Fiddle Champion, Oregon State Young Adult Division Champion and Adult Division Fiddle Champion. She has also served as a judge at the Weiser National Oldtime Fiddle Contest and other regional fiddle contests. Jeanine is the author of three music collections for Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Along with raising three children Jeanine has performed as a solo artist, and as a member of various groups for community, civic, and private functions throughout Oregon. She enjoys teaching private lessons, workshops and fiddle camps. Along with her violin/fiddle teaching studio she also works as a Special Education Instructional Assistant.

Tom Pixton

Tom Pixton has directed community and church choirs over a period of 35 years. He more recently founded and directed the West Linn Community Chorus for 6 years. Tom studied choral conducting at BYU, he has served as Stake Music Chair in three stakes and he regularly attends ACDA (American Choral Directors’ Association) choral workshops for continuing education. A lifelong musician and father of seven musically accomplished adult children, Tom masquerades daytimes as a lawyer, but keeps a keyboard and banjo in the office.

Karen Porter

Karen Porter received her Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University, studying under Jeffrey Shumway and Paul Pollei. Karen was an instructor of group piano, private piano lessons and sight-singing at BYU, as well as an accompanist for the BYU Women’s Chorus and vocal master classes. Karen is currently the Artistic Director of “Cantico: The Portland Chamber Singers.” She lives in Sherwood, Oregon with her husband and four young children.

Anni Scott

Anni is a life long lover and participant in music. She has been involved in orchestra, piano and choral music and has a particular love for classical music. While serving in her stake Relief Society, she helped organize the local music premiere for a sister in the stake who is an award winning composer and arranger. One of her favorite life experiences to date, has been teaching Primary children the gospel, through music. She and her family have lived in Salem, Oregon for 17 years. She and her husband have four children and two beautiful granddaughters. She currently serves as the chorister and choir director in her ward. Anni has given this presentation several times at this workshop, as well as in other stakes throughout the United States.

David Thomas

David M. Thomas has served as the Artistic Director of the Portland Ensign Choir since 2007. Dr. Thomas (baritone) excels as a choral musician through his unwavering commitment to healthy vocal production in the choir. He attributes much of his success as a teacher and conductor to his years of study and performance with Dr. Ronald Staheli. Dr. Thomas holds additional degrees in Russian language and vocal performance.
“Dr. Thomas’s interest in Russian music emerged from his two-year service (1996-1998) as a Russian-speaking missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Estonia, Lithuania, and Belarus. He has continually integrated Russian music in his research and performance, most recently presenting scholarly work at the American Choral Directors’ Association national convention in Miami, Florida. Currently Director of Dealer Development for Graphic Products, Inc., Dr. Thomas has previously served as Artistic Director of Portland Choirs and Co-Director of Hoffman Academy of Music. He and his wife Emily (soprano) enjoy performing together and operating Studio Thomas: Music Performance Instruction, as well as loving the wonders of life with their three girls and two boys.