Our Group

The Chorus, Music Director, Accompanist, & Board of Directors

Bach Society of Dayton Chorus

Soprano

Carla Ballou
Michelle Carner
Molly Carner
Kay Cherry
Susan Cotten
Triniti Cox
Susan Cromer
Courtney Cummings
Jackie Duff
Diane Gentner
Sharon Kohnle
Rachel Lammi
Karen Linaberry
Connie Palmus
Vicki Ramga
Shirley Richardson
Jennifer Smith

Alto

Stephanie Bange
Cynthia Bertleff
Madelyn Callender
Susan Daly
Madelyn Dial
Laura Ernst
Katherine Fanjoy
Sallie Fisher
Linda Keith
Sarah Mabe
Mimi Moen
Sharon A. Norton
Pam Rauch
Mary Beth Rodes
Averill Tinker
Sharon Vander Gheynst
Hannah Village
Barbara Weber

Tenor

Fred Bartenstein
Alfred Bertleff
Dan Bruno, Jr.
Nathan Clark
Joe Codispoti
Frank C. Gentner
Marc Georgin
Bill Lamb
Tim Mahorney
Mark Minardi
David Morgan
Kevin Samblanet
Brian Skinn
Bill Spohn
Vincent Velten

Bass

Mike Bates
Bryan Daly
Mike Dial
Doug Evenden
Michael Flanagan
Marc Fleischauer
Neal Gittleman
Tom Gottweis
Lew Hann
Dick Hattershire
Larry Hollar
Steve Makovec
David Priebe
Dave Roderick
John Stengel
Joseph Steuver
Mike Taint

Music Director

Dr. David Crean enjoys a multifaceted career as a conductor, teacher, recitalist, church musician, and radio personality. In July 2022 he was appointed the second music director of the Bach Society of Dayton, an all-volunteer choir that performs major choral works with orchestra. As an organist, he has concertized throughout the United States and completed two concert tours of Australia, where he gave several Australian premieres and performed on historic instruments. Other recent highlights include the opening recital of WQXR's "Bachstock" marathon, the Poulenc organ concerto with the Bach Society of Dayton, solo recitals at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. Thomas Fifth Ave. in New York, and several programs for American Guild of Organists (AGO) chapters.

Dr. Crean has taught organ, harpsichord, and music theory at Wright State University since 2014 and has held adjunct positions at Wittenberg University, The Juilliard School, and The University of Iowa. He also serves as the Dean of the Dayton, OH chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Since February 2017, Dr. Crean has been the Midday Host and Music Director at Discover Classical WDPR, Dayton’s only full-time classical radio station. An active church musician since age 15, he currently serves as Organist and Music director at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton. Dr. Crean is in demand as a program and CD annotator, and has provided liner notes for a Grammy-winning recording. His first book, a history of the famed Hazel Wright Organ at Orange County's Christ Cathedral (formerly the Crystal Cathedral) was published in 2021.

A native of New York, Dr. Crean received his D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, where he was the 2014 recipient of the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize for outstanding research in a dissertation. He also holds degrees from Oberlin College/Conservatory and The University of Iowa.

Accompanist

R. Alan Kimbrough is well known within the Dayton arts community as an outstanding organist-accompanist.

Alan is a retired professor of english at the University of Dayton and was the accompanist for the former Dayton Bach Society from 1974 to 2002. He is a long-time member of the American Guild of Organists and is currently a co-organist at the First Baptist Church of Dayton.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS and staff

The Bach Society is governed by chorus members and community leaders who volunteer to secure the future of the organization:

Stephen Makovec, President – Retired Dir in Ops Mgt, Project Mgr, Communications
Tom Gottweis, Vice President – President, Applied Informatics, LLC
Ryu-Kyung Kim, Vice President – Assistant Professor of Music, University of Dayton
R. Alan Kimbrough, Secretary – Emeritus Professor of English, University of Dayton; Accompanist, Bach Society of Dayton
Wm. Fred Poland, Treasurer – Retired Finance Exec; Treasurer, Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus

Kim Bramlage – Marketing Manager, Five Rivers Health Centers
Nancy Farkas – Associate Partner, Irongate Realtors
Bond R. Hattershire – Retired Business and Project Manager
Katie Pavy – CPA, Flagel Huber Flagel
Kevin Samblanet – Director of Music and Liturgy, Incarnation Church
William Spohn  – Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University
John Stengel – Retired Business Manager
Sharon Norton – Retired Animal Nutritionist, Cargill, Inc
Sharon Vander Gheynst – Retired Music Professor Emeritus, Wright State University

Laurana Wong, Marketing, Communications, and Administration, Bach Society of Dayton
Sharon Kohnle, Chorus Librarian
Carla Stengel, Coordinator of Concert Volunteers