Meet our Director Mimi Gass has been directing the Troy Community Chorus since 1999.  She retired from teaching after having taught music and English at Ferndale High School for 29 years, and vocal music at Shrine High School for three years. She holds a theatre and music degree from Albion College and a Master’s degree in education from Michigan State University. As a member of the Langsford Singers, she traveled to Wales to compete in the International Musical Eisteddfod competition. Mimi is the director of the Twelfth Night Singers, an adult a cappella singing group that performs locally at civic and private functions. Memorial Day weekend of 2008, she performed , the Rutter Requiem with a large chorus, under Rutter's direction, at Carnegie Hall in New York. Mimi lives in Royal Oak and spends her summers in Glen Arbor, often visiting nearby Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she participated as both camper and counselor.  She credits her high school choir director, Mr. Otto Brown, for her lifelong interest in music.

Meet Our Accompanist Min Sook Chung - Playing piano and organ has been an important part of Min’s life since she was six years old.  She majored in organ performance at Yeon-Sei University in Seoul, South Korea.  From 1985 to 1990, she accompanied the Word-Vision Korea Children’s Choir. In 1990, Min visited the U.S. for the first time, and played at Carnegie Hall as organist when her Young-Nak Presbyterian Church from Seoul had a concert tour in North America.  In 1997, she won 3rd place in an organ playing competition at the 37th Annual Conference on Organ Music, held at the University of Michigan School of Music.  Currently, she serves as an organist and all-around accompanist for the First Baptist Church of Royal Oak.  She is the mother of two children and her husband teaches at Lawrence Technological University.