Danielle J. Lemieux (instrumental, vocal, and visual arts) has been the Director of Music Ministries for Children and Youth at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church by The Narrows for eight years, leading seven formal groups (including vocal and bell choirs) and arranging and leading music for small instrumental ensembles for youth and adults.  She is a professional French hornist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Auburn Symphony and substitutes with groups such as the Tacoma Opera, Northwest Sinfonietta and other local groups – she also teaches French Horn through the University of Puget Sound Community Music Department.  Danielle studied Music Education and Horn Performance at the University of Puget Sound (Bachelor of Science, 1998) and Horn Performance and Conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA (Master of Arts, 2003).  She was a Fulbright Scholar to Norway in 2001-2002, studying Horn Performance with renowned hornist and teacher, Frøydis Ree Wekre, at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo.

Caresse DL Robertson (theater, vocal, movement arts) is currently pursuing her Masters of Arts in teaching with endorsements in theater and music at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, WA and will graduate in December of 2010.  She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater (with a minor in Music) and was very active in PLU’s “Night of Musical Theater,” singing, acting and directing.  She has led the St. Mark’s Youth Music Drama Team since January of 2003 and has directed full length musicals such as Godspell (2006), Snoopy (2008), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2010) as well as smaller musical and dinner theater productions, even writing one based on a fairy tale (complete with original music) with the help of the youth of St. Mark’s, Stargazer.  Caresse is a freelance actor and vocal teacher in the Tacoma/Seattle area.

Randi Kander (visual arts) studied painting and drawing in college as an art major.  She has taught art classes since that time for the Metro Parks Department (Tacoma), Puyallup Parks Department, Tacoma Community College and various Calligraphy Guilds throughout the state of Washington. She has been an art teacher for the annual Calligraphy Festival in Edmonds, WA, for the past 15 years and has also taught classes at the Tacoma Art Museum.  Randi sums up her view of art as follows: “I believe that everyone is an artist and everyone makes their own mark…Art is a personal, subjective expression of each unique personality.”