This is Sharon’s second season with the Long Beach Chorale. However, she’s been a musician and music-lover all her life. She studied voice privately for fifteen years, worked with a small opera company, has sung with various chorales and church choirs, and enjoys both solo and group singing. She also enjoys noodling around with her Appalachian dulcimer which she built in college. Sharon is delighted to be back singing with a great chorale, since all musical efforts had to be put on hold while she worked her way through seminary. Sharon loves all types of music; walk in on any day and you might find Dr. Demento, Copeland, Verdi, Taizé, or Sondheim on the CD player.
Sharon with her mouse puppet, Eek (so called because of course people say “Eek!” when they see a mouse, so he thinks it’s his name).
Outside of Chorale, Sharon can be found at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and School in Downey, where she is assistant priest, school chaplain, and supplemental music teacher. You might also spot her at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where she teaches patrons about Renaissance clothing production and demonstrates various forms of weaving, lace knitting, and Elizabethan backchat. Sharon can often be found with a sewing or crafting project somewhere nearby, and most recently has been designing and sewing clergy shirts in fabrics other than basic black.
A student of languages and linguistics, Sharon enjoys inflicting puns on an unsuspecting public (just ask any Chorale member!) and collecting books, especially first editions of weird stuff. It has been fairly said that Sharon and her husband Mike live in a library with a kitchen and bedroom attached. Sharon and Mike also enjoy baseball games, science fiction conventions, craft festivals, and tending to their fur-children, Shadow, the cat and Basil Rathbun, the rabbit.
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