Meet our team!

Kevin ​Baker

Kaylee ​Grose

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Kaylee Grose is the Assistant Choir Director at Jefferson City High School and is honored to help her students along their musical journey.  Miss Grose is from Springfield, MO and graduated summa cum laude from Missouri State University with her Bachelor's in Vocal Music Education. She serves as the director for Tonal Uproar and assists the direction of the three JCHS choirs; Concert Choir, Bella Voce, and Chorale. In addition to teaching, Kaylee Grose has a strong passion for performing. Some of her achievements include performing internationally on tours to Scandinavia, Italy, Ireland, and China, participating in professional recording projects, serving as a paid vocal artist with CORO, and performing in several operas. When she is not teaching or performing, Kaylee Grose loves spending time with her family and friends, doing craft projects, and going to the lake!

Cheryl Nichols

Cheryl Nichols is the accompanist for Jefferson City High School and Simonsen 9th Grade Center where she helps with musical, voice lessons, and all the choirs. In the previous performing arts season at Stephens College in Columbia, MO, Nichols will direct and produce Dickens' Victorian Christmas with the Stephens Concert Choir, and will serve as music director, pianist and pit orchestra director for "The Light in the Piazza". Cheryl is an active member of American Choral Directors Association, where she serves as accompanist coordinator for clinics and conventions in Missouri and for the Southwest ACDA division. She has accompanied Missouri's MoCDA-sponsored All State Choir for the last 14 years, and currently serves as church music specialist for Oakland Christian Church in Columbia.