Jennifer Giustino

Cantabile Conductor, Prelude Teacher

A native of Westchester County, Jennifer Giustino has been working with children’s choir programs for the past twelve years in New York and Michigan. Jennifer is the Early Childhood Prelude director and Cantabile conductor for Westchester Children's Chorus. She currently serves as a K-5 General Music and Chorus teacher in the Scarsdale School District.

Previously, she taught general and choral music on Long Island before moving to Michigan. Jennifer was on staff at the Michigan State University Community Music School as an early childhood music instructor and directed a satellite children’s choir program. While completing her master’s, she was responsible for supervising student teachers, assisting undergraduate music education classes, and instructing an undergraduate education course.

Internationally, Jennifer has served as a guest clinician for the summer SING! Children and Youth Choir Program in Cork, Ireland, and directed the inception of an early childhood music program to accompany the organization in the summer of 2018.

Jennifer has served as the ACDA and NYSSMA elementary honor choirs chairperson and has presented research in New York, California, and Michigan. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in Vocal Performance and Music Education and a Master’s in Music Education from Michigan State University. Her primary goal as an educator is to teach an appreciation of and provide access to different ways of engaging with music.

Anne Crozier

Cantus Conductor

Chicago native Anne Crozier is proud to serve on the chorus faculty at the Westchester Children’s Chorus. Anne has a wealth of experience working with young musicians ages K-12. Currently, she teaches high school choir and AP Music Theory at Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, NY. Previously, Anne taught middle school choir at Hommocks middle school in Mamaroneck, NY for two years and high school choir in Bloomington, IN for three years before moving to the east coast.

It has always been a passion of Anne's to connect with and serve her local community through music-making. Being a conductor with the Westchester Children’s Chorus is a highlight of her week and something she views as a great privilege.

Anne is a graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and holds bachelor's degrees in vocal performance and choral music education. She studied voice with Carlos Montané, choral conducting with Professor Walter Huff, and was mentored by choral educator and author Dan Andersen. Anne is an active member of ACDA, NYSSMA, and WCSMA. 

It is Anne’s goal to help young singers build healthy voices to enable a lifetime of singing. Anne is honored to be a part of the WCChorus staff and director of the Cantus ensemble.

hannah geiling

Crescendo Conductor

Hannah Geiling is thrilled to be returning to the Westchester Children’s Chorus community as the Crescendo Conductor. She has a background in choral conducting, vocal performance and pedagogy, and directing musical theater.

Hannah holds a Bachelors in Music Education and Vocal Performance from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and a Masters in Special Education from Concordia College.

Currently, Hannah teaches at Scarsdale Middle School as a 6th Grade Chorus and General Music instructor. Prior to joining the Scarsdale team, Hannah taught Middle and High School Chorus and Musical Theater in the Pawling Central School District. It is her mission to guide her students' musical development and cultivate a life-long love of music.

Outside of the school day, Hannah has had opportunities to serve in other music organizations. For the past few years, Hannah was the chair for All County Choruses in Dutchess County where she organized and produced annual county wide music festivals. Hannah is the Treasurer of the Kodály of Westchester Board. She is currently completing her Kodály levels training with an emphasis of choral pedagogy and repertoire.

Jonathan Pereira

Cambiare Conductor

Born and raised in Queens, NY, Jonathan Pereira’s love for music started at a young age. Jonathan has been playing the piano for over twenty years and holds a bachelor's degree in Piano Performance and Music Production. Shortly after its completion, he received his teacher certification from Queens College, and he is currently on track to complete his Master in Music Education in the spring of 2022.

Jonathan has worked as an accompanist for various schools and community choirs in Long Island, NY accompanying concerts as well as school festivals. In 2017, he joined the Hibernian Festival Singers as their accompanist on their international tour to Ireland. Along with playing the piano, Jonathan has worked as a recording/mixing engineer in top NYC recording studios such as Dream Recording Studios and QUAD Recording Studios. Jonathan now works freelance recording and mixing for local artists in his private home studio.

Jonathan started his career in public school education as a leave-replacement in the Mamaroneck UFSD where he taught middle school and high school choir. Currently, Jonathan is the music teacher at Port Chester High School where he teaches Choir, IB music, Music Production, Music Theory, and runs the school’s a capella group, The Port Chester Sound. It is Jonathan’s passion to aid in the development of his students and to witness their ever-growing capabilities.

Andrea Fagon

Business Manager

Andrea Fagon is a seasoned marketing and communications professional with a diverse range of experience. Currently serving as the University Director of Marketing and Communication at The City University of New York (CUNY), Andrea is responsible for overseeing various aspects of marketing, including advertising, brand management and strategy, website development, social media management, content management, communications planning and development, and more.

Before joining CUNY, Andrea held the position of Associate Director of College Relations at The College of New Rochelle. Additionally, she served as an adjunct faculty member at both the College of New Rochelle and Westchester Community College, teaching courses on advertising strategy and technique, as well as speech communication.

Before her experience in higher education, Andrea was the director of marketing and communications for a large Real Estate company and the director of communications for United Way of Westchester and Putnam.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from Boston University.

Caitlin Adler

Program Manager

From Baltimore, Maryland, Caitlin Adler has been a choral singer since her days with the Peabody Children’s Chorus, under the direction of Doreen Falby. She is now a member of the New York Choral Society and holds a bachelor’s degree in Voice and Composition from Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY).

Her passion for composition thrived while working for prolific composers such as Mr. Mark Barkan and Mr. Philip Glass. She is a composer of several choral works, primarily written for treble voices. She has composed for the Sarah Lawrence College Chamber Choir and the Wilde Lake High School Chamber Singers (Columbia, MD). Returning to NYC, Caitlin joined the Westchester Children’s Chorus in September 2021 as an intern and has now taken on the role of the Events Assistant. She loves having a hand in the growth of WCC and seeing the students expand their abilities.

In addition to her career in choral music, Caitlin performs as a solo artist with her guitar playing at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She plays a variety of genres and loves to encourage her young singers to explore the depth of their own instruments beyond classical music.

douglas kostner

Accompanist

Douglas Kostner has been a performing musician for most of his life. He has worked with adult and children’s choirs, hand bell choirs, numerous instrumental ensembles, and theater companies. He has conducted musical theater productions at the Westchester Broadway Theater, New York University’s Summer Musical Theater, and the New Federal Theater. As a choral conductor, he has presented concerts of sacred and secular music both a cappella and with orchestral accompaniment. As an accompanist, he enjoys working in the Mamaroneck School District and the Hudson River School of Music.

Douglas is an active composer and arranger. His church music is published by GIA (Chicago, IL). His compositions and arrangements have been performed at various institutions in the New York City area including St. Joseph’s Seminary, the City University of New York, and the national meeting of the Boards of the Methodist Church.

He is currently Director of Music Ministry at the Larchmont Avenue Church, where he directs a large music program that includes multiple choir and instrumental ensembles. Douglas is the Music Director of the Westchester Chorale, a community chorus in residence at the church, and organist at Sinai Free Synagogue.

Douglas holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Fordham University and Manhattan School of Music. He is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London, UK), and an Associate of the American Guild of Organists.

sanae miyazaki

Accompanist

A native of Japan, Ms. Miyazaki started studying piano at the age of 4. In Japan, she received Piano Performance certifications from Yamaha Music Foundation and PTNA (the Piano Teachers’ National Association of Japan).

Since coming to the United States, she has studied organ at Concordia College-New York and Nyack College, and received her MM in organ performance at Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Miyazaki was a music coordinator at the Church of St. Bernard in White Plains, NY where she played the organ and the piano for both in English and Spanish masses, a music director and an organist at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at Hawthorne, NY and she currently serves as an organist at The Church of the Resurrection in Rye, NY. She has performed solo organ recitals at venues including Calvary Baptist Church, Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and Japanese American United Church, all located in New York City, as well as Ramapo Reformed Church in Mahwah, NJ.

She has been a faculty member at Nyack College since 2012, as well as a member of The American Guild of Organists and the Associated Music Teachers League. As an active educator, she has piano studio at Sakura Nursery (Harrison, NY) and has been teaching numerous young students.

Ms. Miyazaki is an active collaborative pianist and Basso Continuo player. She has worked on numerous choral and ensemble productions, including the Nyack College Chorale, The Calvary Choir and the Jubilee Chorus, which included performances at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. She is currently an accompanist for the Westchester Chorale and Westchester Children’s Chorus.

Lisa Forte

Accompanist

Check back soon for Ms. Forte’s bio!