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Young Voices Staff
 Marian Bender
Founder and Artistic Director, Director of Concert Choir
and Encore Singers
Mrs. Bender received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Piano from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. As member of the world-renowned Westminster Choir, she performed numerous times at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Spoleto Festival with the chorus in residence for the New York Philharmonic. Following graduation from Westminster, she began her career as a music educator as the Director of Music at Grace Episcopal School in Monroe, Louisiana, where she was named Teacher of the Year in 2001. She held the position of assistant music director at Delhi Presbyterian Church 1999-2001 and also served as the director of the Training and High School Choirs of the Masterworks Young Singers, a regional children's choir in Louisiana. In 2001, she relocated to Indianapolis, where she studied as a graduate assistant under Henry Leck, founder of Indianapolis Children's Choir at Butler University. From 2001 through 2004, she held the position of Director of Childrens Music Ministries at Second Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Bender has taught Kindermusik and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association.
Currently, Mrs. Bender teaches music at St. Richard's School and directs the St. Richard's Singers. A dedicated music teacher and choral director, Mrs. Bender founded the Young Voices of Indianapolis in the summer of 2005. Young Voices of Indianapolis has been a dream realized for Mrs. Bender as she strives to achieve enthusiastic, dynamic teaching as a means of nurturing and creating a lifelong love and knowledge of music in children. She is passionate about community service and mission work and hopes that through Young Voices of Indianapolis, children can experience the joy of helping others. Mrs. Bender is a wife and mother of an energetic three-year old. She loves traveling, reading and spending time with family and friends.
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Message from Founder & Artistic Director
Board of Directors
Marian Bender
Hillary Heisman-Updike
Cheryl Eiszner
Julie Green
Ayana Lindsey
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