Artistic Staff & Board

Dr. Mary Kay Geston has led Great River Chorale since 2010 and has previously taught at UW River Falls, U of M Twin Cities, U of M Morris, Concordia University St. Paul, U of Colorado Boulder, University of Northwestern St. Paul, St. Olaf College, and Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD. She has prepared choirs for the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, directed all-state and honor choirs across the U.S., and was a guest conductor in Taiwan and South Korea. Choirs under her direction have performed at professional conferences of Chorus America, American Choral Directors Association, MN Music Educators Association, and SDMEA. Mary Kay has sung professionally with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, at Carnegie Hall with Charles Dutoit, and as a soprano soloist with the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, and Longmont Symphony (CO). Geston is a past president of ACDA North Central Region and ACDA-MN, past chair of the F. Melius Cristiansen Endowment Fund Committee, and received ACDA-MN’s 2012 Choral Director of the Year award. She has a DMA in choral conducting from CU–Boulder, an MM in choral conducting from U of M–Twin Cities, and a BA in vocal performance from NDSU.