Studio
Family Ties (New Pics/Scroll Down)

Yen-Yu Shih with husband Jerry and
new daughter Claira (b. October 26, 2009). Sara
Stapley
and her husband with new son.
Expecting
soon:
Chelsea Smith
Jenkins (her second), Yen-Yu Shih
and Katie Vick
(Mogerman).
Above, ASU
soprano
Tiffany Mortensen (left),
with daughter Ginger, Sara Stapley (a mother to be
in September), and soprano
Lyndsey Dawson Miller (right) with Saddie.



Mezzo
soprano Tara
Anderson Lyons (left), lives in Minneapolis with husband
Trevor and daughter
Cecilia. Tenor Michael
Tully (right),
lives in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area
is pictured with daughter Julia. Soprano Melanie
Jardine (middle), lives in Delray Beach, Florida, and is
pictured here with Alexander and Lydia.


ASU DMA Piano Performance
Degree recipient Christine
Yoshikawa (left), with daughter Catherine and husband
Daniel Powell. Mezzo sopranoChelsea Smith Jenkins
(middle), is pictured here with Carma.
She now teaches in Florida. Soprano
San
Ha Lee (right),
and
husband Youngiu show off her new son James.





Soprano
Katie Jones with
husband Scott and daughter Piper live
in Washington state. Tenor
Zane
Knudtson (who
teaches in West Phoenix) is holding
his new son Asher. Current DMA
pianist/conductor
candidate Jennifer
Garret
and her daughter Abigail Amanda
.
Molly Jo Bessey
is pictured with husband Chris and new son Nickolas Louis
Rivelli . Molly Jo heads up her own MJB School of Music in
the Boston Area.
Mark
Fearey pictured here with his family, is musical director
of the Phoenix Valley Youth Theater. Former ASU Music Theater
major
Christie
Chatfield Ganor (bottom right), lives in Los
Angeles with husband and 2 sons and performs in the LA area.




Tenor
Raymond Gabbard (top left)
and his two children and wife Jacquie live in England where Ray
performs and teaches. Soprano Wendy Enoch Haines (middle) currently
resides in
Oklahoma with her two sons and husband. Soprano Sun Kyoung Chung (right)
lives in Seoul with husband and sun and teaches at
three universities there. Mezzo soprano Ilse Apestigui
(far right), sings professionally and lives in Kentucky
with husband Loren and daughters Luisa and Lorena .


ASU Masters degree
recipient and Music Education
major Kerwin Blau
(left), and his four children and wife live in Mesa Arizona where
Kerwin has taught for the last 12 years. New DMA graduate
JeeHyun Kim and her family (middle): Husband Hong-IL and
daughters Betty and Cindy and son Eric (see NEWSLETTER for
more info on JeeHyun). Vocal Performance Graduate
Chrissy Cooley
(nee Whaley below center) is pictured here with her four
children. She has a thriving voice studio in Mesa, Arizona.
Children
# update:
Bonny Ellsworth: 5. Chrissie Whaley: 4. Darrell Rowdier: 4.
Dal
Albretsen: 4. Joanne Abrom: 3.
Debbie
Hilger-Blanco: 3. John Maudlin: 3. Rob
Stuart:
3. Kerwin Blau: 3. Albert Faraone:
3.
Martha Dalager: 2. Barbara Willy: 2. Naomi Barban
Hoyt: 2. Barbara Wiley: 2.
Sylvie Beaudette:
2. Joel Rinsema: 2. Janet
Carlsen-Campbell: 2. Ilse
Apéstegui: 2 Raymond Gabbard: 2. Kirsti
Aasum:
1, GayLyn Christiansen-Tutnick: 1. George Killian:
1. Seung
Hee Kim: 2. Jee Hyun Kim (2000's): 3 ,
Jee Hyun
Kim(1990's): 1, Suzi Lee: 1. Rachel Velarde:
2. Wendy
Enoch Haines: 2, SunKyung Chung: 1.
Michelle Roth
Pankratz: 2. Scott Wyatt 1. Klara Kukumi
2.
Melanie Jardine: 2. Kristie Gaynor: 2.
Molly Jo
Bessey: 1. San Ha Lee, 1. Zane Knudtson: 1. Chelsea
Jenkins: 1.
Lyndsey Dawson Miller 1. Tiffany
Mortensen : 1. Katy Jones 1, Molly Jo Bessey 1,
Tara Anderson 1, Michael Tully 1. Sara
Stapley 1