GEORGE T. AMOS, celebrating his 13th season as music director of the Society, is recognized as one of the Shenandoah Valley's major choral conductors. Mr. Amos has prepared and condusted the Society in semiannual concerts featuring great choral works of the masters. In April of 2000, he conducted the Oratorio Society in a two-concert performance of Cart Orff's Carmina Burana. Mr. Amos is the chorus conductor and director of chapel music at Randolph-Macon Academy, as well as the assistant minister of music at Braddock Street United methodist Church, Winchester, VA. A student of Grammy Award winning conductor Robert Shafer, music director of the Washington Chorus, Mr. Amos has conducted and judged many choral festivals and clinics throughout the valley. In January 2000, the Shenandoah Arts Council honored him with an Artie Award for his achievement in music in the Shenandoah Valley.

JUDY B. CONNELLY returns for her 13th season as accompanist for the Society. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in music from Shenandoah University, a Master's Degree in Organ Performance from West Virginia University with further studies in theory and composition at the Catholic University of America. She presently serves as Minister of Music at Braddock Street United Methodist in Winchester, VA, and is an adjunct professor at Shenandoah University. She is accompanist for Winchester Musica Viva. in 1998, she co-authored "The Cadenza Method for Organ" -- a self-study guide for pianists learning to play the organ. The book was reviewed in the American Organist magazine and was also presented in workshops at the national American Guild of Organist's convention in Seattle, WA. She has received the "Distinguished Alumni Award" in the area of service to the church from the Shenandoah University Alumni Association, is a member of AGO (Dean), Virginia Music Teachers Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota. She is presently studying organ with Donald Sutherland of the Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University.