We are pleased to introduce Jane E. Colvin, the Executive Director for the Dessoff Choirs. She joined us along with our new Music Director, Chris Shepard, as we enter our exciting 86th season.

Jane has recently worked for non-for-profit organizations where she was responsible for communications and development projects. She successfully conducted annual appeals, produced annual gala events and led creative efforts to increase their donor bases. For most of her career, Jane worked in the financial industry in domestic and international private banking where she was responsible for product development, creating marketing materials for trust and estate products, investment management and derivative products. She also conducted sales and product training seminars in the US and overseas and worked as controller for the international private bank.

Jane is music lover and an avid chorister, singing with the Brearley Chorus and the All Souls Community Choir in New York City and attending as many summer sings as she can. She sang for many years in the Katonah Presbyterian Church choir under the direction of Eileen Laurence and trekked to Salzburg, Austria with the Berkshire Chorale Festival to sing Mozart. She has a BA from Cornell where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and an MIA from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She attended local schools in Grenoble, France and Florence, Italy.