Jennifer "Jenn" Mueske - Director
Jennifer “Jenn” Mueske graduated from UNC Wilmington with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and has recently completed one year of graduate studies in Music Education at East Carolina University. Fall of 2024 she will start her 16th year teaching and is currently the choral director at Laney High School. Since 2009 she spent 11 years working in local contemporary music ministry and youth ministry at Wesleyan Chapel UMC and then First Presbyterian Church. Jennifer has taught private voice lessons at Port City Music for the past 3 years and also substitutes regularly for choir directors and contemporary worship leaders in the area. Jenn is also the soprano section leader for Wilmington's professional vocal ensemble, Wilmington Voices.
Sheryl Tjon- Collaborative Pianist
Sheryl Tjon began her collaborative pianist career in high school, accompanying vocalists and choirs in concerts, daily rehearsals, and competitions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. She attended SUNY-Stony Brook in New York on the National Student Exchange Program. She also earned a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity degrees from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri
She is the owner and instructor of Sempre Piano Studio in Jacksonville. She collaborates regularly with vocalists, choirs, and instrumentalists in concerts, festivals, recitals, and special events, as well as adjudicating for competitions. Ms. Tjon is the Secretary of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association and a member of the Cape Fear Music Teachers Association. She is the former collaborative pianist at Coastal Carolina Community College and former organist and choir director at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, both in Jacksonville, NC. @semprepianostudio.