Our Music Team
Tracy Carpenter
Artistic Director
TRACY holds a BA in Music Education (vocal and instrumental emphasis) from Berea College, where she studied conducting under Stephen Bolster and theory and harmony with John Courter. She also achieved two levels of Orff Certification at the University of Cincinnati.
Tracy started her teaching career in the Adams County/Ohio Valley School District, teaching K-8 General Music for two years before teaching at Milford Junior High School for 22 years. She is currently teaching at Milford High School. For 6 years, Tracy chaired the OMEA District 14 Middle School Honor Choir event, organizing almost 200 students from 10-20 Clermont and Hamilton County schools.
Her own choirs have achieved Superior Ratings and placed first and second place in competition. In her years as a music teacher, Tracy has taught well over 10,000 students, several of whom are or have been members of the Clermont Chorale!
Tim Carpenter
Artistic Director
TIM serves as the Milford Junior High School Choir Director. He is also the Director of Music at the Milford First United Methodist Church. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Berea College and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
Tim is certified in Level I Orff. He has served on the Ohio Choral Directors Association (OCDA) State Board as the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Music in Worship, and is currently on the executive board of the Greater Cincinnati Choral Consortium (GCCC), a collaborative association of choral ensembles.
Tim has several instrumental compositions published by Falls House Press (flute quartet) and Brassworks4 Publishing (brass quintets). His next publications will be choral compositions, one of which, “Lullaby,” was recently premiered by the Chorale.
Michael Spresser
Accompanist
With over thirty years of combined experience in music education and music publishing, Michael’s career highlights include: helping to stage the opening number of the Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade for ten years, providing editorial assistance to Stephen Schwartz on educational choral arrangements from Wicked and the recent Pippin revival, and more recently the team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, being inducted into the Turpin High School Music Hall of Fame, becoming a member of the Producer’s Wing – National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammys), and now playing for the Clermont Chorale. A sought-after accompanist, he has had the privilege of playing in over fifty cities in twenty-five states, Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the former Soviet Union.