ANDREA RAMSEY , co-founder and board member, received her B.A. in Vocal Music Education from Arkansas Tech University and is currently pursuing a M.M.E. in Choral Conducting at Kansas University. She served as the director of choral activities at Washington Junior High School for nine years, where the program grew to include over 325 singers in grades 7 and 8. Her choirs have consistently received superior ratings at region festivals. In addition, she has served as a director of the Arts Center of the Ozarks Children's Choir, on faculty at the Arkansas Choral Connection and the Arend Arts Center Youth Choir Camps, and the editor of the Arkansas Accent, a newsletter for the Arkansas chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. A published composer, Ms. Ramsey has several original compositions in print with companies such as Boosey and Hawkes, Bri Lee Music, Colla Voce and Alliance Music. She has been commissioned to write works for All-Region choirs and for ensembles to perform at National and Divisional Conventions of ACDA. Ms. Ramsey currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Visit her site: www.andrearamsey.com

RACHEL CORNETT, director of the Camerata  and Cantus Choirs, is currently in her eighth year as the director of the choir program at Spring Hill Middle School. She received her Bachelor's and Master's of Music Education degree from the University of Arkansas where she studied classical voice, sang in many choirs and played flute in the Razorback Marching Band. Aside from teaching at SHMS, Mrs. Cornett has directed at the Arts Center of the Ozarks Children's Choir in Springdale for two years, served on the faculty of the Arend Arts Center Youth Choir Camps, and is a founding director of the Bentonville Children's Choir. Students from her choirs have been selected for National and Regional Honor Choirs of the American Choral Directors Association. Mrs. Cornett is also the Repertoire & Standards Chair for Children's Choir for the Arkansas division of the ACDA and is a National Board Certified Teacher. Rachel and her husband, Jamie, reside in Cave Springs with their baby girl, Audrie.

LORRIE DIXON, accompanist for the Bentonville Children\'s Choirs, is a graduate of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, where she was a piano major and earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree. She has taught private piano lessons for over 15 years and has always enjoyed accompanying for churches, schools and private music studios.  She is married to Greg Dixon and they have three beautiful daughters, Hannah (who is in Cantus), Chloe and Ruth.

BCC Financial Director JAMIE CORNETT is a Securities Trader with Arvest Asset Management. He received his B.S.B.A. degree with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Arkansas where he played the alto saxophone in the Razorback Marching Band. Jamie and Rachel were married in May of 2001.