Nancy Bush, soprano (The Witch) Nancy returned to serious singing in 2000. Since that time she has performed solo work in Schubert’s Mass in G as well as Handel’s Judas Maccabeus and The Messiah. With the Westford Chorus she is a soloist and sang the role of Marcellina in an abridged production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro as well as Frasquite in the full production of Bizet's Carmen. She also appeared as one of the Trio in the fall 2005 production of Trouble in Tahiti as The Witch in a production of Into the Woods and Anna Maurant in Kurt Weill's Street Scene through Indian Hill Music Center.

Megan Errgong-Weider, soprano (Gertrude) is very excited to be making her debut in Hansel and Gretel. Megan holds her Master of Music from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. She is an elementary music educator in the Chelmsford Public Schools as well as the choir director for the Atkinson Congregational Church in Atkinson, NH. Megan is a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and is currently studying voice with Monique Phinney.

Susan Julian Gates, mezzo-soprano (Hansel) and co-producer, is a resident of Chelmsford. She studies voice with Monique Phinney and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Dramatic Art. She began her career in stage management with the Inverness Music Festival and the Washington Opera. She has also worked for the Manhattan Theatre Club and the New York Lyric Opera. She sang the title role in the Westford Chorus production of Carmen in 2006, as well as Cherubino in a reduction of The Marriage of Figaro and Julie in Show Boat. At Indian Hill Music School she has sung the role of The Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, which she is reprising in December, as well as Dinah in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, and Miss Todd in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. She, along with Nancy Bush and Bill Kruger, are the founding members of After Five Cabaret. They debuted at The Java Room in Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now. Ms. Gates also is a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the official chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Linda Holstein Stronge, soprano (Gretel) returned to singing six years ago. Recent roles with Westford Chorus include Edith in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen, Barbarina in a reduction of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and most recently Magnolia in Showboat. As a student at Indian Hill Music School, Linda sang the role of Monica in Menotti’s The Medium and Rose in Weil’s Street Scene for a scene study class. She also sang the role of Cinderella in the IHMS production of Into the Woods. Linda studies with Chelmsford resident Monique Phinney.

Dan Swanson, baritone (Peter), a resident of Westford, MA, is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At the Univ. of Illinois he sang with the Oratorio Society, which included a recorded performance of the Beethoven Missa Solemnis directed by Robert Shaw. At the Univ. of Michigan he sang with the Men’s Glee Club, which included a 30 day tour of Europe and a first place finish at the The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Llangollen, Wales. Dan has been singing with the Westford Chorus since 1997 and is in his second season with Spectrum Singers. His previous roles include the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, Hucklebee in The Fantasticks, Noah in Two by Two, Bob inThe Old Maid and the Thief, Figaro in scenes from The Marriage of Figaro, the Postman in The Most Happy Fella, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Escamillo inCarmen, and Dr. Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro. Dan studies voice with Chelmsford resident Monique Phinney.