DR. CINDY BAUCHSPIES is an accomplished choral director and singer/songwriter. She has prepared choral ensembles for Britten’s War Requiem with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop, Mendelssohn’s Elias with the National Symphony Orchestra and Helmuth Rilling, Holiday Pops concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops and Steven Reineke, and the International Church Music Festival in Bern Switzerland with Sir David Willcocks and the BBC Radio. Her choirs have performed in Europe, South America, and all over the United States. She has been recognized for her work as a music educator through several awards by county and state officials, and is faculty emeritus at the Annapolis Area Christian School, where for 24 years she developed the high school choral program into one of the best and largest in the state of Maryland. Dr. Bauchspies earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Maryland. Cindy and her husband Todd, an acoustic finger-style guitarist, are recording artists and have been performing their original music professionally for over twenty years.