The City Bar Chorus is led musically by musical director and conductor Kathryn E. Schneider and accompanist Matthew V. Grieco. The chorus has many administrative needs – most importantly, recruiting new members and booking the chorus to sing at new and established community outreach venues – which are handled by the City Bar Chorus Committee, chaired by Kimberly Tate-Brown.

Musical Director & Conductor Kathryn E. Schneider,
Vice President & Senior Counsel, Corporate Affairs, at ACE Group Holdings, Inc., has worked professionally as an organist and choral director since her early teens. While attending Columbia Law School, she served as Assistant University Organist and was Vocal Director of the Columbia Law Revue shows and cabarets. Kathy took graduate-level choral conducting classes at Westminster Choir College and Teachers College, Columbia University, and studied organ at Columbia with George Stauffer and Mary Monroe. Kathy is in her thirteenth season as musical director of the City Bar Chorus, after having served as accompanist for the CBC’s first three seasons. Kathy was Co–Chair of the City Bar Chorus Committee from 1996 to 1999 – through which she got to know her husband, Paul Getzels, then her Co–Chair and now bass section leader – and has also been a member of the City Bar’s Information Technology, Securities Regulation, and Thurgood Marshall Summer Law Internship Program Committees.

Accompanist Matthew V. Grieco, Principal Law Clerk to Justice John T. Buckley of the Appellate Division, First Department, is a classically trained pianist. At Brown University, he was a member of the Applied Music Program, Chamber Music Society, and Orchestra (where he played violin), and studied piano with Conrad Strasser and Marilyn Neher. At Columbia Law School, he was pianist for the 1992–94 Columbia Law Revue shows and cabarets. Matthew has been accompanist of the City Bar Chorus since 1996. Matthew also plays at general meetings of the Columbian Lawyers Association of New York.



City Bar Chorus Committee,  2007 - 08

Front: Amy Chu, Sarah Richards, Cherilyn Zavatsky, Lisa Stevens, Ida Brannon Back: Charles Cunningham, Damien Bosco, Nancy Merriman, Kimberly Tate-Brown, Marti Holmes

Kimberly Tate-Brown, Chair
Nancy Merriman - Secretary/Treasurer
Amy Chu - Membership Co-Chair
Cherilyn Zavatsky - Membership Co-Chair
Lee Pollack - Gigs Chair
Dana Betz - Scores Chair
Damien Bosco
Ida Brannon
Charles Cunningham
Marti Holmes
Sarah Richards
Lisa Stevens

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