Monte Mason (Founding Director): Other than his directorship of The Gregorian Singers, Monte is organist/choirmaster at St. Martin's by the Lake Episcopal Church, in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota, where he is also the Youth Arts Program director. He has maintained an interest in children's and youth music over the years, and began the Diocesan Youth Music Festival in 1993, an organization still going strong. As a composer, he received a McKnight Composer Fellowship in 1999, and continues writing on commission or otherwise. As a writer, Mason contributes occaisional choral music reviews to The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians. He served on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the National Episcopal Church, 1997-2003.

::Tom Anders (tenor) is in his Second Season with the Gregorian Singers. He is in his last semester at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota pursuing a degree in Finance, hoping to be fully employed at the time of graduation in December. He grew up in Stillwater, singing in the Ascension Episcopal Church under the direction of Nancy Whipkey and Lisa St. Ores. Tom spent two seasons singing with the Opera Theater chorus at the University, performing in La Boheme and The Marriage of Figaro. In addition to singing, Tom also plays violin with one of the orchestral ensembles at the U.

:: J Michael Compton (alto - section leader) has sung with the Gregorian Singers for 20 years. Michael has been the Director of Music at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in St. Paul since 1983 and is a successful and prolific composer. As an organist, he has performed many recitals at churches in the Twin Cities. He is also an accomplished violinist and has performed with the Lyra Concert, Salamone Rossi Ensemble, Symphony of the Lakes, Kenwood Chamber Orchestra and the GSVLOC orchestra. An avid collector of antiques, he is the proud owner of two reed organs and over 300 vintage postcards featuring Santa Claus.

:: Charles Hackman (tenor) joined this illustrious ensemble at a time shrouded in the mists of the ages (I've taken part in every Advent Procession but the first). In that time he has been an alto, a tenor, a bass, and in various combinations simultaneously. In his other lives, he works as a music specialst for a very large printed music retailer, and deputizes for several church musicians.

:: Lynn Hodulik (alto), an avid choral singer, has performed with several groups, to include the Texas Bach Choir, Minneapolis Bach Society, Concentus Musicus, Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus, Minneapolis Vocal Consort and St. Catherine's Choral Society. Lynn is a former Orff Schulwerk music and movement educator and currently works for a food safety science consulting company. Her favorite things are singing early music with like-minded folks, gardening, taking walks with her husband, Steve, and reading a good mystery.

:: Steven Hodulik (baritone - section leader) is a Wisconsin native who has been performing music in the Twin Cities for 20 years. He has performed with the Minnesota Chorale and the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus and has been in stage productions by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the James Sewell Ballet and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. He is also a cantor and choir section leader at the Cathedral of Saint Paul. This is his third season with the Gregorian Singers.

:: Sarah Hoplin (soprano) began singing with The Gregorian Singers in 2006. She holds degrees in piano performance and school counseling, and currently works in the ethanol industry. She is the soprano section leader at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in St. Paul, and produces electronic dance music (trance) in her spare time.

:: Dave Jacobson (baritone) sang in the Dale Warland Singers for its last eight seasons. He also has performed with diverse ensembles, such as the Rod Smith Big Band, Voce Magna, and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Currently, besides beginning his fourth season with The Gregorian Singers, Dave is a member of The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists, and is the bass section leader at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul. Originally from La Crosse, Wisconsin, he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Donna.

:: Elina Kala (soprano), a native of Finland, has been with the Gregorian Singers since 2002. She is also a cantor and Schola singer at Basilica of St. Mary and a founding member of Saana Ensemble, a vocal quartet of native Finns. She earns her living as a licensed marriage and family therapist and drug and alcohol counselor at Hazelden Center for Youth and Families and lives in Mill District with her significant others (a spouse and a cat). Her favorite Minneapolis destinations are Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis Public Library, and the hiking paths along Mississippi River.

:: Diane Koschak (soprano – section leader) has been a member of the Gregorian Singers for 9 seasons. Diane is a section leader and cantor at St. Louis, King of France, Catholic Church and also sings with Consortium Carissimi and the Minnesota Chorale. She has sung with The Rose Ensemble, Waltham Abbey Singers, the Saint Paul Early Music Ensemble and the Minneapolis Vocal Consort. Diane is an Elementary Music Specialist and choir director at Valley Crossing Community School in Woodbury. When not singing, Diane enjoys the company of her husband, Kurt, and their two golden retrievers.

:: Mark Larsen (tenor - section leader) returns to the Gregorian Singers this year after five years with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers. He also serves as cantor and tenor section leader at the Church of St. Louis, King of France, in St. Paul. Mark received his bachelor's degree in 1987 from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and in 1992 he earned his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. Mark is employed as an attorney editor at Thomson West in Eagan.

:: Maureen Long (alto) began singing with the Gregorian Singers in the fall of 1999. The group offers her an artistic outlet that balances her work as a secretary in the physics department at the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is also the director of the choir at the Church of Gethsemane in downtown Minneapolis, and is pursuing a master's degree in counseling psychology and couples and family therapy at the University of St. Thomas. During sporadic bouts of free time, she indulges in children's literature and has a penchant for nocturnal volleyball games.

:: Ron Lutz (tenor) joined the group in 2006. He earned a BA in Math and Computer Science many years ago from the College of St. Thomas, where he was a member of the Chamber Singers and Madrigal Singers. He continues to sing with alumi from those groups, as well as with the St. Catherine Choral Society and an occasional mass at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church. Ron currently works in the Information Systems department at Hamline University.

:: Jacob Manier (baritone) is in his sixth season with The Gregorian Singers. He is the Choirmaster and Organist at Saint Christopher's Episcopal Church in Roseville, where he's about to lead the parish choir on a Pilgrimage to England - singing at Coventry, York Minster, Durham, Ripon, Ely, and Saint George's Chapel. Jacob also serves on the Bishop's Commission for Liturgy and Music, and became an Episcopalian as a result of his work with The Gregorian Singers. Especially fond of potted palms, smothering draperies, and voluptuous carpets, he haunts mausoleums, derelict churches and root cellars in his free time. Jacob is the highly significant other of John McDaris.

:: John McDaris (baritone - section leader) is a transplant from his native North Carolina. He has sung with The Rose Ensemble, the Minnesota Chorale, and the Raleigh Oratorio Society. This is his 8th season with the Gregorian Singers and he also sings with The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and the parish choir at Saint Christopher's Episcopal Church. John has a M.S. degree in geophysics and works for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He shares a craftsman home in Saint Paul with his partner, Jacob Manier, and their two dogs.

:: Jeana Ogren (soprano) is the staff accompanist at Concordia University and performs with faculty and students at several other colleges in the Twin Cities. She has been on the piano faculties of Santa Clara University, the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, California, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee and presently teaches at the St. Paul Academy. This is her fifth year of singing with the Gregs. She also sings with the Minnesota Chorale and has been a member of the VocalEssence Chorus. She likes history, antiques and ghost stories.

:: Jennifer Newman (soprano) joined the Gregorian Singers in 2006. Jenn graduated with a BA in Theatre from BSU, where she was a member of the Bemidji Choir and Chamber Singers, and continues to sing with the Bemidji Alumni Choir. Jenn balances her time between her day job in marketing for UnitedHealthcare and serving as the Vice President of the Young Artists Initiative, a non-profit youth arts program in St. Paul. She lives in Uptown with her fiance and their cat and knits socks when she has time.

:: Paul Ogren (baritone) is a former member of The Rose Ensemble and VocalEssence and is in his third season with the Gregorian Singers. This year he is also performing with The Singers and the Minnesota Chorale, making this his 38th consecutive year of choral singing. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research and makes his living as a software developer.

:: Daniel Pickens-Jones (baritone) was a tenor with the Gregorian Singers until he screeched a high G in a Guerrero cancione and had to cancel his Junior recital at Macalester College due to vocal fatigue. But he got over it, and is now in his second season with the Gregs and completing his senior year at Mac majoring in Music and International Studies. Before coming to Minnesota, Daniel sang as a boy chorister and lay clerk with the choir of Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), where he learned that every half-decent piece ends with a nice round English cadence. Daniel is assistant conductor of the Macalester Choir and a keen student of Arabic. He imagines spending his career, in the words of Monte Mason, "singing motets from the back of a camel."

:: Laura Rose (soprano) teaches piano for a living. She also keep the old oral tradition of story telling alive for pleasure and writes because she has something to say and in effort to actually become a good writer who can convince someone to publish some of her work. She is in her second year with the Gregorian Singers and finds it musically and spiritually challenging and fulfilling.

:: Lucy Slater (soprano)

:: Rachel Slater (alto)

:: Liz Stanley (alto) joined the Gregorian Singers in 2005 shortly after moving to Minnesota. Originally from Georgia, she attended the University of Georgia where she earned degrees in church music and music history, and studied harpsichord, organ, and trombone. Liz began PhD studies in music theory at the University of Iowa before making a career change to computer programming. Liz's musical interests include early notation and historical diction, and she owns a small but growing collection of early music facsimiles, from which she occasionally transcribes modern performing editions. Her other interests include computers, birdwatching, nature photography, sports, and fitness. See more at lizstanley.com.

:: Luke Tegtmeier (tenor) is a first year member of the Gregorian Singers. Originally from a farm in north central Ohio, he has a degree in Church Music from Valparaiso University and in December will have a Master in Sacred Music from Luther Seminary. He serves Trinity Episcopal Church in Excelsior as Organist/Director of Music, where he also plays accordion occasionally.