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Currently, she is the Interim Director of Choral Music at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. For this position, she conducts the Chancel Choir and Youth Choir. Before beginning her master studies at UNT, she taught secondary choral music for two years at Coppell High School. Caitlin began teaching private piano lessons at fifteen, and later added voice lessons to her studio. Caitlin has been a soprano soloist and choral singer in the Dallas area for nearly ten years. She currently sings with the professional choir, Orpheus. Other groups include Texas Choral Artists, Dallas Bach Society, and the Collegium Early Music Singers. She recently sang at the Taipei International Choral Festival in Taipei, Taiwan with the A Cappella Choir of UNT. Caitlin is a featured soloist on the 2006 and 2007 Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir (GIA Label Recording). During her master's studies, she was selected as one of three students in Texas to be a workshop conductor at the Texas Music Educators Association convention. Her teacher-mentors have included Jerry McCoy, Henry Gibbons, Warren Henry, Rosemary Heffley, Lyle Nordstrom, Simon Carrington, Craig Hella Johnson, Bruce Brown, Hilary Apfelstadt, Robert Sund, Nora Henson, Cecile Johnson, Julianne Baird, Max van Egmond, David Sundquist, Cody Garner, and Jeffrey Snider. Caitlin is newly married to Matthew Beluso, and they currently reside in North Dallas. Caitlin on YouTube:
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A native of Denton, Texas, Caitlin Wells holds a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the University of North Texas, where she studied with Jerry McCoy and served as Associate Conductor of the UNT A Cappella Choir. She also holds the Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude from UNT. She has done post-graduate self study in England, Germany, and the Netherlands. While living overseas in Amsterdam, she conducted a semi-professional choir of twenty-four singers, studied voice with Max van Egmond, and worked with Klaas Stok of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, and Daniel Reuss of Cappella Amsterdam.
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