Shelby Laird is a DMA student in Choral Conducting at Michigan State University, where she studies with Drs. Snow, Fox, and Bowen. She serves as Chancel Choir Director at the Presbyterian Church of Okemos and is a soloist with the Bach Chorale of Grand Rapids. Shelby holds degrees from Northern Arizona University and the University of Oregon and previously taught high school choir in Kansas City, Missouri. Her performance experience includes Mirabai, the Oregon Bach Festival, Sedona Academy Chamber Singers, and Ad Astra Music Festival. Shelby is passionate about fostering connection and community through choral music.

Mandy is an active Brooklyn based cross-genre singer. She performs regularly in musical theater cabaret nights, pop and jazz a cappella small groups, and currently sings with multiple choirs around the The Marble Choir (NYC), The Young New Yorker's Chorus, and The Sedona Academy of Chamber Singers. Throughout her undergrad and master’s studies, she appeared regularly in operatic, cabaret, and musical productions. ​Mandy has music directed multiple youth music theater productions around the country, worked as a high school choral director, maintained a private voice, piano, and theory studio since 2016, and has guest taught at various academies, universities, and conservatories. In 2023, she co-founded Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory’s first ever student chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She graduated with her masters of music in vocal pedagogy from The Boston Conservatory in 2024, and a bachelors in voice performance from Northern Arizona University in 2018.