Arvada Chorale

Over thirty years ago, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities created a community chorus made up of amateur singers, called the Arvada Center Chorale. Since that time, the Chorale has had the vision of bringing joy and enrichment through beautiful choral music. Along with its many concerts at the Arvada Center and other Front Range venues, the Chorale has traveled abroad, most recently to the British Isles.

Now reorganized as a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, the Arvada Chorale Company is a vital, thriving organization committed to musical excellence. The Chorale continues to be the resident Chorale of the Arvada Center, and is an integral part of Arvada and the Front Range community. The Chorale is grateful for the continued support of the Science and Cultural Facilities District.

Sarah Deveau, Artistic Director, has been conducting choirs for 15 years. Currently she is the Music Director at First Unitarian Society of Denver and is working toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting at CU Boulder. At CU she has conducted the University Women's Chorus and served as assistant conductor for the University Singers, and she currently teaches undergraduate choral conducting. Before moving to Colorado, Sarah completed a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at Boston University. Sarah is also active as a singer and voice teacher and has participated in a variety of excellent choral groups, including the Colorado Conductors' Chorus and Boston's Coro Allegro.

Margaret Scharff, Chorale Accompanist, is currently pianist and assistant choir conductor at Jefferson Unitarian Church, and before that, served as Choir Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder. She received her formal training at the University of Colorado, College of Music, in Piano Performance, where she studied with Doris Lehnert and Robert Spillman. Her varied work experiences include teaching private piano lessons, working with Jewish choirs, teaching choir in a private K-8 school, accompanying school musicals, playing piano in chamber ensembles, accompanying Jewish cantorial music, and freelance performing. She grew up in Oakland, California, and began her study of piano at age five.