Members/Staff
Director
Diane James
Diane has been conducting Choral Groups in the Bay Area since the year 2000, starting with the choir at the Center for Spiritual Living for two years. She has been the Director of OCCC since September 2006 and the San Jose Peace Chorale since 2002. Previous to beginning her career as a director, she sang in choirs all of her life. Diane looks forward to many more years of conducting and directing beautiful, inspiring music for the enjoyment of a multitude of people.
Accompanist
Crista Alvey
Crista has been doing piano accompanying for 20 years. She spent 10 years as the piano accompanist and vocal coach of Broadway musicals at South Mountain High School. She has also accompanied for Corona del Sol High School, Mesa Community College, Ginni Alvey Music Studios, and the LDS Church. She holds degrees in Psychology and Desktop Publishing. She moved to San Jose from Tempe, Arizona in 2015 after being the Creative Director of Green Living magazine. She is enjoying playing piano and singing for Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley and raising her son Kaiden.
Sopranos
Donna Knippen
Laura Knoop
Diane Lechner
Sharon Levine
Susanne MacDougall
Mary Mc Cloy
Gabriela Rosales
Jeanne Rudy
Sue Thomas
Sarah Valencia
Joanne Whitaker
Bobbie Wright
Altos
Barbara Bird
Kathy Capello
Katrina Capello
Pamela Craig
Marilyn Crandall
Mary Ferenchak
Maria Gray
Jen Loftus
Pat Mayer
Kay Parkin
Janet Shull
Sally Smith
Laura Stemmle
Nancy Tepperman
Sharys Wheeler
Tenors
Jim Burris
Ray James
Ken Schieck
Howard Thomas
Bill Wright
Basses
Dale Crandall
Jim Delzer
Paul Levine
David Shull
Al Whitaker
Director/Accompanist
Jeremy Harris
Jeremy has been working in the South Bay for more than 35 years as piano accompanist, vocal and musical director for community theaters, and vocal arranger and composer. As part of his musical journey, he was Choir Director at Pioneer High School for ten years. He graduated from the Indiana University School of Music and began his career as pianist and arranger for the U.S. Air Force Band. Jeremy was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and worked in New York City before moving to California.