Elizabeth Berndt, Director
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Elizabeth Berndt studied voice, piano, and choral conducting under Ron Jeffers at Oregon State University and at the Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart, Germany. She holds a Bachelor of Music from OSU and Master of Education from Boston University. She has many years’ experience as a high school music teacher, and has been accompanist for several choirs, including the German American Choir in Stuttgart, Germany. Mrs. Berndt was a soprano singer and rehearsal director for the Karlshoehe Kontorei for nine years prior to returning to the United States.
Locally, she has sung with Masterworks Choral Ensemble, as well as founding and directing a men’s chorus, Capstans, and a community chorus, Harstine Island Community Choir. She is currently singing with Symphony Tacoma Voices and directing Women of Note, a women’s choir of South Puget Sound. |
Dilyara Oliver, Pianist
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Dilyara Oliver is a classical pianist. She completed her training in Piano Performance at Kazakh National Conservatory. Then she attended University of New Orleans with a full merit-based scholarship, where she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance degree. Dilyara was a faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She also served as the president for the New Orleans Music Teachers Association. Her students have won city and state competitions, and have also performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
While in New Orleans, she has made guest appearances at the French Quarter Festival, Jazz and Heritage Festival, Snug Harbor, New Orleans Vocal Arts Chorale performances, MetroPelican Opera productions, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Trinity Recital Series, Loyola Montage Series and others. Dilyara is happy to call Olympia her home, where she teaches at her private piano studio, Music On Music, and performs regularly. |
Mission Statement
Women of Note is a community chorus organized and operated exclusively for public music education and dedicated to performance, community service, and leadership in the arts. Our mission is to teach and perform choral works to interested persons of all ages, to participate in community service activities, and to develop and maintain public interest in vocal arts. The purpose of Women of Note is to learn and perform choral works and to promote the opportunity to experience the enjoyment of such works in the Western Washington region. We will obtain funds and dedicate those assets to this purpose of public music education.
I love the pure joy that feeds my soul when I am singing with our Women of Note expressed through first of all, friendships, and music challenges that present themselves through singing excellent music and learning a variety of techniques make it shimmer. |
One of the things I enjoy most about being part of Women of Note is the camaraderie that develops while working together on songs, from the first sight reading to the final performance. |
"Journey Home" Spring Concert 2015
"A Ceremony of Carols" Christmas Concert 2016
