Debra Golata - Guest Clinician

Debra Golata received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Michigan State University and a master’s in choral conducting from San Jose State University.

Her vocal performance experience includes solo recitals, opera, musicals, and professional choral singing. She has sung with the acclaimed Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Chorale for the past 15 years and she has concertized throughout the United States and Mexico with classical guitarist Jon Harris.

She recorded songs about Bay Area women artists featured in the book “Aging Artfully.” She is organist and music director at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley and teaches private voice and piano and general music classes for schools in the Bay Area. She thoroughly enjoys her association with Berkeley Community Chorus - some of the finest people she knows.