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, played 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, e.V., a large concert choir that performs 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, and one grandson. 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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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 9th 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!

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.

Mrs. Calafaty holds a Bachelor of Music Education in Vocal & Organ as well as a Master of Arts in Music Education from the University of Central Missouri. She has taught public school music for 24 years, five years K-12 general and vocal music and 19 years in elementary general music with extra-curricular choir. Before that, Mrs. Calafaty taught private lessons for several years. Mrs. Calafaty has been a church organist for over 45 years as well as directing adult and children’s choirs, including beginning a handbell choir for Sunday School students. Now retired from teaching in public schools, she is excited to join the team at CMC and go back to her first love, teaching private lessons to piano and organ students.

Based in the Kansas City area, Roshelle Pekarek is a dynamic teacher and performer. She holds a B.M. in Violin Performance from Missouri State University. Roshelle is currently a member of the Topeka Symphony and a string principal for the Westwood Ensemble. She also performs regularly with the Springfield Symphony — their recent full productions of Swan Lake and the Sleeping Beauty with the Saint Louis Ballet have been career highlights. In the summer, she performs in the orchestra and chamber ensembles of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra.

Roshelle is a teaching artist with Harmony Project KC and the Concordia Music Conservatory. She loves leading a Lees Summit fiddle program for adults with little to no musical experience; growing up, she has enjoyed playing fiddle music since she was young. When she isn’t teaching or making music, you can find Roshelle snapping pictures, cruising around in Mini Coopers, or playing with Mouse, her cat who loves to play fetch.