Kevin Fox
Founding Music Director, Troubador Director, math instructor
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Mr Fox has been involved with boys choirs since the age of eight. He holds degrees in Music (with Honors) and Economics from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, where he studied voice with tenor Wayne Rivera, conducting with Mel Strauss, composing with Neely Bruce, and received the Lipsky Prize for outstanding scholarship in choral studies. He studied music at Oxford University, England, with Edward Higginbottom, and choral conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton with Jim Jordan and Vincent Metallo. He has served as Proctor for the American Boychoir, working with Jim Litton and Craig Denison, and has sung with the choirs of Trinity Church in New Haven, Trinity Church in Princeton, American Bach Soloists, the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, and the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys in San Francisco, where he also worked as Interim Assistant Choirmaster.
Under his direction, the Pacific Boychoir Academy has grown from six to 120 choristers in four treble choirs and one alumni choir. Working with the PBA staff, Mr. Fox has developed a proprietary music reading and music theory training program comparable to university-level music classes. In 2002, Mr. Fox developed a business plan for the choir school, a comprehensive document compiling the ideas of staff and board members in preparation for the opening of the school in the fall of 2004.
Mr. Fox has been on over 30 tours with boys choirs to almost all 50 states including Alaska and Hawai'i, as well as to Taiwan, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, England, Wales, Ireland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, and Spain.

Pamela Weimer
Head of School; Math and Science instructor
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Mrs Weimer has been a teacher for over 15 years. In addition to teaching classes in psychology and child development at the junior college level, she has taught in the Oakland Unified School District, in private schools in Oakland, and most recently has been teaching fifth grade at Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. Mrs Weimer has served as interim Upper School Head for St Paul's School in Oakland. She has an MA in Psychology and Child Development from San Francisco State University, and a BA in Psychology from UCLA.
Mrs Weimer's business background is extensive, working the restaurant and building fields. This experience has contributed to her success as Managing Director of the after school program of the PBA, a position she has held for five years.

Andrew Brown
Associate Music Director, choir school Music, Cantori Choir Director
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Mr. Brown has taught children and adults, instrumental and vocal music in California and Connecticut for 16 years. He studied instrumental conducting with Harold Farbermann at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, Dr. Jon Robertson of the Redlands Symphony, and choral conducting with Dr. Ronald Keen. As a conductor and educator Mr. Brown has served on the faculty of numerous music organizations including the Southern California Young Artists Symphony, Riverside Master Choral, Hartford Conservatory, La Sierra University Community School, Golden Gate Boys Choir, Loma Linda Academy and Pacific Boychoir Academy.
As a clarinet player Andrew has performed with the Tulare County Symphony, La Sierra Orchestra, Hartt Symphony, Mount Diablo Chamber Orchestra, Hanford Orchestra and the Conductor’s Institute Orchestra. A church musician for over seventeen years, he has served in numerous denominations collaborating in dozens of joint interfaith programs and has lead music for regional and state conventions including a two-year term as a Music Director for the California Nevada Annual Conference of United Methodists.
In addition to his work with the Pacific Boychoir Academy, Mr. Brown is a music teacher at San Domenico School in San Anselmo. He lives in Martinez with his wife, Stella and their two children Katherine and Temerlin.

Dr. David Montgomery
English and History instructor
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David Montgomery teaches English, history, and humanities for PBA. A graduate of St. Louis Country Day School (where he sang in the Glee Club!), David studied English and Russian as an undergraduate at Stanford University, before going on to U.C. Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, focusing on Russian literature but also doing work in political theory as well as other languages. David has taught and substituted widely as an instructor at almost every grade and age level. His experience includes extensive work with middle and high school students in the Piedmont school district, teaching world history, Russian, and Western Civilization at U.C. Berkeley, undergraduate tutoring at Stanford, adult literature courses at U.C. Extension, summer instruction at the American Advanced Academy gifted/talented children's program, as well as other teaching and tutoring work. Other life and work experiences for David include work as a professional writer and extensive travel and work in Russia and the former Soviet Union. David brings energy and enthusiasm to the study and teaching of language, literature, history, and the great ideas, as well as a keen and eclectic appreciation of music, and he is delighted to be a part of the PBA community.

Stella Brown
Associate Music Director, Minstrel Choir Director
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Mrs Brown has a Masters in Early Childhood Music Education with an emphasis in Kodaly techniques from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut. For the past ten years, she has taught music to both adults and children in various settings, as well as piano pedagogy at the University of Montemorelos in Mexico. She currently teaches music in the Contra Costa Unified School District, conducts the Minstrel choir and directs the Orff training for the Boychoir.

Marcia Roy
Assistant Music Director
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Ms Roy is a founding member of the Pacific Boychoir staff. She has a Masters degree in Music from Cal State Hayward, and has been the organist at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland for 15 years. Formerly, Ms Roy served as choral conductor at Holy Names High School in Oakland and at the San Francisco Girls Chorus. She has worked with professional boychoirs in the Bay Area for the past 20 years and has a large active studio for private piano students.
Ms. Roy serves as Music LIbrarian for the PBA's 400+ titles, as well as accompanist.

Fernando Tarango
Consultant for Student Affairs; PE instructor
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After graduating from the American Boychoir School in Princeton, NJ, where Fernando first met Kevin Fox, he was soon asked to be a summer camp counselor for the legendary Camp Gualala of 1999. Fernando has been working with the PBA summer camps ever since and is now the Summer Camp Director. Fernando holds a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, where he sang with the world renowned Michigan Men's Glee Club, and the a cappella subset, the Friars. Fernando currently resides in Oakland, where he continues to sing, write music, and play guitar in the Bay Area.

Carolyn Lord Anglin
Art Instructor
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Carolyn Lord is a graduate of Principia College and watercolor is her primary media. She studied under Millard Sheets, James Green, Rex Brandt, George Post. Travels to paint include Brasil, U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Italy, Denmark, England, and French Polynesia. American Artist, US Art, Watercolor, and Watercolor Magic magazines have published articles on her work. Carolyn is a member of the California Art Club and the National Watercolor Society. Carolyn Lord is represented by Nancy Dodds Gallery, Bingham Gallery, and Thompson Gallery. She participates in the annual Maynard Dixon Country Show, and national plein air events.