On Q Chorus Board of Directors 

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Tony R. Sparks
​Director

Tony has been singing publicly since 3rd grade, performing in choruses and choirs throughout secondary school and into college. At the University of Colorado, Boulder, he studied music theory and performance.

Tony has directed three men's choruses. He developed a particular love for a cappella harmony while in junior high school, and sang in his first competitive barbershop quartet in 9th grade. He eventually went on to sing for nearly 20 years with an internationally-ranked medalist quartet, Bank Street, that performed throughout the U.S. as well as in Canada and England.
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Today, in addition to directing On Q, Tony is a vocal coach, arranger, and Certified Music Judge for barbershop contests. He is actively involved in promoting a cappella music and arts collaboration throughout the Albuquerque community, and especially enjoys working with young people to help ignite in them a life-long love of music.

​Kate Page
President

 Kate joined On Q Chorus in 2016 shortly after moving to Albuquerque following an extended camping ramble around the country.

She has worked and served for over a decade in the Food Bank and AmeriCorps sectors. She loves bringing people together through food, service and music.

​She is excited to serve as President of the chorus this year and hopes to help the chorus grow in membership and sisterhood.

Valerie Stefani
Acting President 

Valerie has been singing and playing the piano for as long as she can remember. A transplant from Buffalo, NY, she sang in community and barbershop groups across the northeast before moving to New Mexico.

She began singing barbershop harmony in 2014 and joined On Q in 2022. She's also a member of Enchanted Mesa Show Chorus. She loves the community that barbershop harmony creates around each member.

Valerie is the assistant director of a small local preschool. She also serves as the executive director of a professional society for architects. Valerie will graduate in 2023 with her masters degree in Early Childhood Constructivist Education.

Brenna Moore
​Secretary

Brenna grew up in a musical family and her love for singing began at a young age. She has appeared in several musicals, from Seussical the Musical to Into the Woods.
 
 She joined On Q in 2016 and enjoys learning barbershop, listening for roots of the chord and picardy thirds, and laughing with the rest of the On Q-ties. She loves how involved the chorus is in the community and how supportive and encouraging the chorus is to one another and to sisters everywhere.

Brenna works in the travel and tourism industry and spends her time outside, with friends or with her miniature Dachshund.​

Hope Moore
Treasurer

Hope has been involved in music her whole life, starting with piano at a very young age then progressing to playing the flute throughout grade school. Through it all, she has always had a love for singing and has sung in many a church choir.

Hope found her love for barbershop in 2021 when she joined Enchanted Mesa Show Chorus. Once introduced to the barbershop community, she discovered On Q and joined in 2022.

​She works as an Accounts Receivable manager and is pursuing a certificate in accounting and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management.

​​Paulette Brannan
​​​​Director of Membership

Paulette Brannan is a Lead/Tenor/Baritone and joined On Q 10 years ago in 2012. She has competed with On Q on the international stage and is a 3rd generation Barbershopper (both her dad and grandad sang here in New Mexico!)

Paulette graduated from UNM in 2011 with a BA in Fine Arts (emphasis in Musical Theatre) and has been singing since before she could talk! She also sings 1st Soprano with her mother in the New Mexico Symphonic Chorus and Alto on her church's praise team. 

​Paulette works as a full time nanny and loves teaching her kiddos about music and animals and art. Being in On Q has been a wonderful experience for her and she hopes to continue to help grow the chorus even more!​

Chelsea Swisher
​Member at Large

Chelsea came to New Mexico from Baltimore, Maryland but she’s a Tennessee girl by birth.

She has been singing since she was very young, and been in vocal training since the age of 12.

Aside from singing, she volunteers with organizations for awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence and she is a professional makeup artist.

​She is also a true “Hallow-queen” and loves all things kooky, spooky and weird.