Dr. Jerrode Marsh is the Executive Director of CMC, the Director of Music at Saint Paul Lutheran High School, and the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Sedalia Symphony Orchestra. She holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Portland State University and a Master and Doctorate in Piano Performance from UT Austin, with an emphasis on Chamber Music and Accompanying. She moved to Concordia in the fall of 2015 from Frankfurt, Germany, where she lived and worked the prior two decades as a professional musician, performing extensively as a piano soloist, collaborative artist, and conductor throughout Europe. She also worked as a Parish Music Director at an English-speaking Lutheran Church in Frankfurt.. While living in Europe, she collaborated with many international singers and instrumentalists, she collaborated in special projects with the Frankfurt Opera, and she was actively involved in performing and organizing many benefit concerts. She founded the Trinity International Concert Choir, a large concert choir that performed major choral works with orchestra.

In Missouri, her school ensembles and private students regularly receive high accolades in state and regional contests and are frequently selected to perform in top college choirs. In 2018, the concert choir toured Europe, singing in five different countries. She has two grown children, Vanessa Rodewald (née Marsh) and Christoph. She remains an active performer, conductor and church musician in central Missouri.

A former member of the U.S. Air Force Academy Band, Gary Moege from Warrensburg, MO, is originally from eastern Kansas. He earned bachelors and masters degrees from Emporia State University; and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma. From 1981-2017, he was a professor of music at the University of Central Missouri, where he taught horn, classical guitar, and music history. In addition to currently serving as principal horn with the Sedalia Symphony; he has performed with the St. Joseph Symphony, the Springfield Symphony, and the Topeka Symphony.

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Maria Mueller holds a master’s degree in piano pedagogy from Texas Christian University and a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Lawrence University. Mrs. Mueller has taught students at all levels and from preschool age to adult. Her experience includes private lessons, children’s group classes, and introductory piano courses for college students. Mrs. Mueller has been designated a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano through the Music Teachers National Association. She regularly participates and presents at music teacher events, including the National Conference for Keyboard Pedagogy and the Music Teachers National Association conference. Mrs. Mueller has considerable solo performance experience and has performed in the U.S. and abroad in Italy, Canada, and Austria. She also enjoys collaborative work, and has performed with the Lawrence University Symphonic Band and with several chamber groups. In addition, Mrs. Mueller recently completed training and is certified to teach early childhood music classes for babies through the Musikgarten program.

Jennifer Thorson holds MCM and BA degrees in music from Concordia University Chicago and Brevard College respectively, with additional graduate studies in Music History (College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, and Austrian Fulbright grantee).

Jennifer’s clarinet teachers include Denise Glynn, David Kirby, Eric Ginsberg, and Emil Rieder. She performed in master classes with Ronald DeKant, Lori Ardovino, and David Campbell. She has enjoyed playing in chamber music and large ensembles in several states and in Austria. She has also given clarinet related presentations on Austrian composers and education. As a church musician for two decades, Jennifer has taught and rehearsed instrumentalists of various ages. She plays several instruments, but clarinet remains a favorite since fourth grade!

Liz Kehl was raised in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, beginning viola in the public school orchestra at age 9. She played with the Kansas City Youth Symphony for 6 years, and then studied music education at Missouri State University, in Springfield, MO, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Music Education in Instrumental Music and a minor in Religious Studies. She has served as an assistant choir director, youth choir director, cantor, music director, soloist – both vocally and instrumentally, and guitar accompanist at churches she has attended. She is currently the principal violist with the Sedalia Symphony, a member of the Lee’s Summit Symphony Orchestra and an award-winning Old-Time Fiddler. Liz and her husband Ted Kehl have 4 children and live in rural Pettis County on a farm raising goats and cattle.

Page Gravely, a Warrensburg native, has a Master of Music from the University of Central Missouri, specializing in vocal pedagogy, literature and performance. At UCM, she has served as an adjunct for Applied Lessons, Voice Class, Experiencing Music and Musical Theatre Workshop, and sung with the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and she currently performs with KC Vitas, a new music chamber ensemble, and serves on their board as Treasurer. Presently, Page is an Administrative Assistant in the College of Health, Science and Technology at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.

Page's criticism is constructive, backed by vocal science, and takes care of young voices through healthy vocal practices. Her voice students regularly receive the highest rankings at District and State Music Festivals, District and State Choirs, and they have received numerous accolades for stage performances. Page only takes voice students enrolled in 8th grade or higher and boys' voices should already be 'changed'. If you have an interested younger student, Page recommends you enroll them in piano and/or Kinderchor at CMC to begin their vocal music journey!

Clara Rich, a Lincoln, Nebraska native, teaches beginning piano at CMC. Clara has been singing since before she could walk, and promised herself as a young piano student that she wouldn’t ever quit. Twenty years later, she’s grateful for the many opportunities that this love of music and commitment to it has brought to her life, and has a passion for sharing the joy of music and encouraging young students in their own dedication to and discovery of music.

Clara graduated with a B.A. in Music from Concordia University-Nebraska in 2018, where she studied piano and voice and participated in a variety of ensembles. She has taught beginning and intermediate piano to a variety of age levels, held leadership roles in choirs and theater productions, and been regularly involved in church music and leading worship throughout much of her life. While living as a missionary in the central European country of Slovakia, she also enjoyed the chance to see the world through new “musical eyes” while singing with a local adult choir along with leading music at church and school chapels. During the school week, you’ll find Clara at St. Paul Lutheran High School where she teaches Theology and Health classes.

Cherokee holds a Bachelors in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Central Missouri as well as two Associate degrees from the Community College of the Air Force (Human Resource Management and Education and Training Management). She studied violin under Mr. Harold Johnston, former Sedalia Symphony conductor and Dr. John Rutland, violin professor and symphony conductor at the a university of Central Missouri.

She rejoined the Sedalia Symphony in 2023 and serves as the concert mistress. Cherokee also serves in the Missouri Air National Guard as the Force Development Flight Chief and has over 20 years of dedicated service to her country and the state of Missouri.