Amber Lauridsen / Artistic Director and COnductor

Amber holds vocal performance degrees from Chung-Ang University in Korea and Indiana State and earned her MM in Conducting at South Florida University and her DMA in Sacred Music from the University of Southern California. While studying with Don Neuen at UCLA she was co-conductor of the Chamber Singers and UCLA Symphony’s winter concert series and at USC was co-conductor of the Oriana Women’s Choir. She also served as assistant Conductor of the Angeles Chorale. 

Amber founded the San Juan Master Chorale in 2022 and the youth chorus NovaStella in 2024, has been the music director for several productions at San Juan Community Theatre, and is the piano accompanist at Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church