SALLY HUSCH DEAN director :: founded Sorelle San Diego in 2013. Ms. Dean has been
a leader in the performing arts community of San Diego County for over thirty years. Her contributions to the cultural fabric of the area are focused in music education in general and the choral music arena in particular. Ms. Dean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of California, San Diego, and a Master of Music: Choral Conducting from California State University, Los Angeles. She served as adjunct faculty member at Palomar College in San Marcos California from 2007 to 2016, directing both the Palomar College Chamber Singers and the Palomar College Chorale. She has served numerous times both as director and adjudicator for choral festivals. She served on the board of the Choral Consortium of San Diego from 2015 to 2018 and was co-chair of the San Diego Sings! Festival 2015, 2017 and 2019, in Balboa Park. Ms. Dean recently retired from a long career as the founding Artistic Director of the San Diego North Coast Singers Youth Chorus. She led this prestigious youth ensemble on many national and international tours including performances at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, and St. Peter’s Basilica in Italy. She is a long-standing member of the soprano section of the La Jolla Symphony Chorus.
a leader in the performing arts community of San Diego County for over thirty years. Her contributions to the cultural fabric of the area are focused in music education in general and the choral music arena in particular. Ms. Dean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of California, San Diego, and a Master of Music: Choral Conducting from California State University, Los Angeles. She served as adjunct faculty member at Palomar College in San Marcos California from 2007 to 2016, directing both the Palomar College Chamber Singers and the Palomar College Chorale. She has served numerous times both as director and adjudicator for choral festivals. She served on the board of the Choral Consortium of San Diego from 2015 to 2018 and was co-chair of the San Diego Sings! Festival 2015, 2017 and 2019, in Balboa Park. Ms. Dean recently retired from a long career as the founding Artistic Director of the San Diego North Coast Singers Youth Chorus. She led this prestigious youth ensemble on many national and international tours including performances at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, and St. Peter’s Basilica in Italy. She is a long-standing member of the soprano section of the La Jolla Symphony Chorus.
ANNA JULIAR pianist :: was born in Archangelsk, Russia. She studied piano at Archangelsk Music College, and Music Education at the Russian State Pedagogical University. Anna has worked as a performer, accompanist, and instructor since 1997 in both Russia and the US, where she has lived since 2004. She toured Europe with the Sound of America Honor Band and Chorus as their principle accompanist from 2006 to 2010. She has worked with the Albany Symphony and was the principle accompanist for Albany Pro Musica from 2010 to 2011. Anna served as a judge for the Parillo Piano Competition, and was a frequent accompanist for the New York State School Music Association. She continues to work as an accompanist and to offer private piano lessons in her studio in Carlsbad, California.