Members of the UNSRC Singers
A wide variety of UN staff members join the Singers, including editors, translators, librarians, tour guides, security officers, messengers, chauffeurs, accountants, photographers, and executive-level staff. Functions and responsibilities are as varied as their voices!
See a list of our current members below.
Sopranos
- Karin Agha - Slovakia
- Yolla Assaf - Lebanon
- Althea Boteju - Sri Lanka
- Domnique Bush - France
- Katie Cangelosi - USA
- June Chesney - Scotland
- Joan Davis - USA
- Erica Deel - USA
- Kate Doyle - USA
- Sandy Dunn - USA
- María Carmen Flores - Spain
- Dilek Hancioglu - Turkey
- France Larrivee - Canada
- Christa Lex - Germany
- Aida Mateo - Pilippines
- Isolda S. Oca - Philippines
- Leeza Shirokov - Russia
- France Pramoda Vacher - France
- Riham Youssef - Egypt
- Fabia Yazaki - Brazil
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Altos
- Erica Appel - USA
- Rachel Babruskinas - Cuba
- Dorothy Cable - India
- Jacqueline Charles - Trinidad & Tobago
- Pauline Chow - China
- Mary Anne Cruz - Phillippines
- Sarah Feehan - USA
- Joan Felli - Ghana
- Christina Gorham - USA
- Barbara Hillery Van Elsen - USA
- Jingbo Huang - China
- Cheryl Larsen - USA
- Annie Matias - Philippines
- Nora Vasquez - Philippines
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Tenors
- Mark Anthony - Guyana
- Patrick Cruz - Philippines
- Michael Laing - USA
- Gavin Pan - Singapore
- Jorge Sarabia - Philippines
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Basses
- Charles Appel - USA
- Pengfei Mi - China
- Douglas Rose - United Kingdom
- Odd Andersen - Norway
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Musical Director and Conductor
The conductor and music director is Mr. Guillermo Vaisman. Musician, accordionist and choir conductor, born in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1961. He studied in the Julián Aguirre Conservatory of Music and the Juan José Castro Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, and continued his studies at the School of Arts and Musical Sciences in Universidad Católica Argentina. He continued studies in choir conducting with Antonio Russo and Alberto Balzanelli.
He is a founder member of the Argentine Association of Choir Conductors (ADICORA) and a member of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) since 1998. He founded the choir Cappella Buenos Ayres in 1994 and was its conductor until December 2002.
During the past 20 years, he has conducted more than 400 concerts in Argentina, Italy, Switzerland, Uruguay and the United States. The repertoire included a cappella works from the universal choral literature and traditional folk pieces from Argentina and other South American countries.
At present, he is Director of Music at Zion Lutheran Church (Manhattan, New York City) and Musical Counselor of the Asociación Cappella Buenos Ayres (Argentina).
Since June 2004, he has been the Conductor and Music Director of the United Nations Singers, affiliated to the UN Staff Recreation Council at UN Headquarters, New York.
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