VOICES Staff
KIMCHERIE LLOYD, Artistic Director
Professor Kimcherie Lloyd is currently the Director of Orchestral Studies and Opera Theatre in the School of Music at the University of Louisville where she holds the Moritz von Bomhard Endowed Chair of Music and holds an administrative appointment as interim Associate Dean of Students and Academic Planning. She is a past president of the College Orchestra Directors Association (2020-2022). In addition to orchestra and opera theatre, Professor Lloyd teaches instrumental graduate and advanced undergraduate conducting. Professor Lloyd holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in piano performance from Eastern Michigan University, a Master’s degree in orchestral/opera conducting from Louisiana State University and was a member of the Apprentice Conducting Program at the University of Minnesota School of Music. As an apprentice conductor, Professor Lloyd worked with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Composer’s Forum, Minneapolis Symphony and the
Plymouth Music Series. In addition to her studies in the US, Professor Lloyd studied conducting with Julius Kalmar at the Conservatorium in Vienna, Austria.
Professionally, Ms. Lloyd is currently the Artistic Director of VOICES of Kentuckiana and served as Director of Music with Kentucky Opera from 1999-2007, where she was the Music Director for the Rudd Young Artist Program and Assistant Conductor/Chorus master for the main stage productions. Other past affiliations include the Louisville Orchestra, the Louisville Youth Orchestra, Music Theater of Louisville, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, MacPhail Center for Arts, Baton Rouge Opera, Tecumseh Pops Orchestra, and the Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, Ms. Lloyd has guest conducted in Vienna, Austria, Lyon, France, Katowice, Poland, San Jose, Costa Rica and Recife, Brazil, and Loja, Ecuador and Salta, Argentina.
Professor Lloyd’s former conducting students hold major positions in Ecuador, Brazil, Korea, Germany and the US. In addition to her performance activities, Professor Lloyd is an active researcher in comparative humanities. Her current research focus pertains to historical erasure of women in 19th and 20th century America in classical music as well as the intersection of gender and leadership. Ms. Lloyd is currently working on a biography of the international conducting pedagogue, Elizabeth A. H. Green.
MASON RICE, Associate Artistic Director
A native of Manchester, KY, Mason Rice is the Associate Artistic Director for Voices of Kentuckiana and works full-time as a Financial Analyst at Humana. Before working with Voices, he taught choir, piano, and musical theatre at Graves County High school in Mayfield, KY, middle school chorus at Olmsted Academy South in Louisville, KY, and served as a graduate assistant in Choral Music and Piano at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. He also has a history in church music, where he directed the choir at Arcadia United Methodist Church in Paducah for 6 years. He recently conducted treble ensembles at the ILMEA District 6 Honor Chorus Festival and the Southern Illinois University High School Choral Festival. Mason has also worked extensively as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach with the Governors School for the Arts in Kentucky. He holds an undergraduate degree in Vocal Music education and minors in Piano and Mathematics from the University of Kentucky, as well as graduate degrees in Choral Conducting and Collaborative Piano from Southern Illinois University. Mason also studied theatre abroad in Dublin, Ireland.
While teaching and analyzing data, Mason has maintained an active performing career as a singer and pianist. He has sung professionally with the Paducah Singers, Louisville Chamber Choir, and at Market House Theatre in Paducah, KY. He currently serves as a pianist for the University of Louisville and several JCPS choral programs. He also sings in a local yacht rock cover band.
DANIEL D. MARTIN, Accompanist
Daniel D. Martin showed interest in music and keyboard instruments at the age of three. He was accompanist for his high school chorus, and he accepted his first paid organist position at age sixteen. Daniel has served as accompanist and/or director with various community and professional music/theatre organizations in his home town near Jacksonville, Florida, and in Louisville (including Pandora Productions and Actors Theatre). He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at Jacksonville University with a piano accompanying scholarship, and he studied organ and choral conducting at Southern Seminary in Louisville. Daniel is Organist-Choirmaster at St. James’ Episcopal Church in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, and Partner at Miller Organ Service – tuning, repairing, rebuilding, and other projects related to the King of Instruments! In his spare time (whatever that is), Daniel enjoys composing for St. James’ Choir, hiking in the woods, or savoring a hefty dark brew.
“I heartily support the mission of VOICES of Kentuckiana, and I am thrilled to be working with such a fine choral technician as Mr. Buhrman, along with this great family of singers.”
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