| Director of Music and Choirs, Lorraine Langer, has over 30 years experience teaching as well as directing Adult, Youth & Children's Choirs at many different churches and denominations. Lorraine joined the staff at St. Paul's in 2005.
Lorraine has a gift and passion for teaching and performing. Her teaching career includes research and development in vocal pedagogy with all ages. Lorraine maintains a private voice studio in DeKalb. Her students have performed in both community and professional venues. Her performing career as a soprano shows a versatility in opera, concert, recital and musical theater, which has taken her to Austria, Germany and Italy. Among her music awards are the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant, Bel Canto Opera in Italy, American Institute of Musical Studies in Austria, Tanglewood Music Festival and others.
Lorraine grew up on a farm in Northfield, Minnesota, in a family of thirteen children. She received a B. A. from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, and the M. A. degree from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She loves chocolate, history, sci-fi, baroque music, Manhattan the city and her cat, & kids of all ages.
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| Kathleen Johnson, Organist, has played for 27 plus years at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church in Rochelle and joined the music program at St. Paul’s in the summer of 2008. Kathleen loves playing the organ on Sunday mornings. She has a full-time job with Resource Bank as a Customer Service Representative, Administrative Assistant and Bookkeeper. We are fortunate to have Kathleen with us in both talent & spirit.
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| SangHee Han, Pianist, is in growing demand as an accomplished artist and teacher. SangHee joined the music program here at St. Paul's in September of 2009. SangHee is a graduate of the University of Suwon (USW) in Korea. In 2003, Ms. Han won second prize at Sung Jung National Young Artist Competition. In 2003 and 2004, she performed in the Korean National Piano Society recital at the Ewon National Cultural Center Music Hall. Ms. Han was selected to represent USW for a mutual collegial music performance, the Duo Performance Concert, in both 2004 and 2005. Ms. Han was also nominated as a collaborative pianist during the 2003 USW Music Festival. In 2005, Ms. Han performed the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 with the Suwon Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from USW, Ms. Han taught private piano lessons until moving to the United States in 2009. Ms. Han's main teachers include Kyungsun Pi, Youngmok Ju, Wonyoung Kong, MinKyung Zong, Alexander Seliser, Dmitry Kosmachov. Ms. Han is currently a graduate student working on a Performance Certificate at Northern Illinois University and is studying with Dr. William Goldenberg. SangHee was one of four winners at the Annual Concerto Competition at NIU and performed with NIU Philharmonic Orchestra in February of 2010. SangHee has a private piano studio in DeKalb.
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| Michael Duffy, Trumpet, is also in his first year as a member of the vestry and is the Music Librarian and Head of Branch Libraries at NIU. He has M. Music in musicology from Northwestern University, Master of Library and Information Science from Dominican University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Western Michigan University. Michael enjoys listening to all kinds of music, and likes to play classical and occasionally jazz trumpet music. Michael began playing for St. Paul’s in 2007. We are fortunate to have Michael’s artistry on the trumpet throughout the liturgical year on hymns, anthems and occasionally a wonderful prelude or baroque postlude. Michael also plays trumpet with the DeKalb Municipal Band in the summers and enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife, Kristin and daughter, Nora.
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| Kristin Duffy, Oboe, is a Research Administrator in the Office of Sponsored Projects at Northern Illinois University. Kristin holds a B. A. in History from Hope College and M. A. in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta). Kristin is also a part-time registrar at the Aurora Regional Fire Museum. She studied oboe and played in music ensembles throughout her college years. Kristin began playing for St. Paul’s in 2008. We are fortunate to have Kristin’s artistry on the oboe throughout the liturgical year. Kristin is also on the St. Paul's rector search committee and is very much appreciated for her long hours of talent and work on our parish profile. Kristin is married to Michael and they have a wonderful daughter, Nora.
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Michael Ouellette, Clarinet, is a gifted young artist to be heard! Michael attends the DeKalb High School, studies clarinet & saxophone. Michael also has a wonderful voice and joins the adult/youth choir for special services. We are fortunate at St. Paul's to have such a gifted musician and a wonderful spirit.
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| Marilynn Parkinson, Guest Organist, resides in Florida. We are blessed to have her join us when she can as she visits her daughter and family in Sugar Grove.
More information is forthcoming.
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| Andreea Zaharia, Pianist, is a 2009 Performers Certificate Graduate at NIU, where she was a piano student of Dr. William Koehler and has coached with Richard Young, from the internationally acclaimed Vermeer String Quartet, Mircea Dan Răducanu, at the Iași Music Conservatory and with Andreas Henkel at Heinrich-Schütz-Conservatory Dresden.
She was born in Bârlad, România and comes from a family of 6. Andreea received her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance at the George Enescu Music Conservatory in Iași, her M. A. from NIU in 2008, where she received the NIU Outstanding Women Student Award, the Ruth and William Koehler Piano Scholarship Award, an NIU Graduate Fellowship and assistantship to play for the NIU Opera Workshop. Andreea joined the music program at St. Paul’s in 2006. Andreea is in growing demand as an accomplished artist and teacher, She now lives in New York where she teaches private piano.
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