Atlanta Voices Concert Program

Georgia ACDA Conference, Fall 2025, KSU

Verena Lucía Anders, Director

Will Buthod, Accompanist

My Soul’s Been Anchored ....arr. Moses Hogan (1957-2003)

I Dream A World………………..Rosephanye Powell (b.1962)

America Will Be!................................Joel Thompson (b.1988)

Sopranos

Aliyah Auerbach

Rachel Hunter-White

Chryston Jones

Karen Kerness

Susan Ray

Anna Ree

Altos

Chanell Mosley Childers

Debbie Durden

Pat Harris

Angela Henry

Marcia Kochel

Rebecca Simatov

Tenors

Charles Absher

Rob Armstrong

Shaun Gibbons

Ethan Godfrey

Beth Gollmar

Steve Hadler

Lloyd Harrod

Basses

David Champion

Greg Durden

Brad Linard

Matt Samuels

Zayreton Slaton

Ben Varner

Brian Wold

Atlanta Voices began in 2023 as the Challenge the Stats Community Choir. Director and founder Verena Lucía Anders created an ad hoc choir whose first opportunity was to perform for a Juneteenth Concert in collaboration with ASO’s Talent and Development Program as well as the Atlanta Opera. Challenge the Stats, a local non-profit supporting Black and LatinX classical musicians, continued to invite and support the choir for annual concerts. 

By 2025 the ensemble had nearly doubled in membership and had gained a local reputation as a group presenting stirring and high-quality performances of music by composers of color. Verena and the outstanding team of singers decided to continue the choir as an independent group, Atlanta Voices. The music and socially relevant subject matter became the nucleus of this family of singers. 

Atlanta Voices is now proudly an independent ensemble and 5013c non-profit. The ensemble  plans to continue their work performing valuable repertoire by under-recognized composers, inspire social change in classical music, and build bridges in our communities.