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| GRC MB Staff Artistic Director - Scott Bosscher
Scott Bosscher is the longest serving of GRCMB's three Directors of Music, having been appointed to lead the choir in 2001. A Grand Rapids native, Scott attended Grand Rapids Christian Schools and graduated with a degree in both choral and solo voice from Calvin College. Scott went on to earn a Master of Music in vocal performance at the Bass Opera School at Oklahoma City University, studying with Dr. Inez Silberg (Leona Mitchell, Chris Merritt, Kristin Chenoweth.) Subsequent teachers include vocal coach John Wustman and voice teacher Diane Forlano, with whom he studied alongside Anthony Rolf Johnson, John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge and James Bowman. Scott studied in Diane Forlano's studio for five years in Chicago and three more subsequent years in London. While in Chicago, Scott sang for six years with St. Luke’s Choir of Men & Boys, Richard Webster, director; five years with His Majesties’ Clerkes (re-named Bella Voce), Richard Childress & Anne Heider, co-directors; and two years with Music of the Baroque, Thomas Wickman, Director.
In 1991, Scott took up a dual post at the Wells Cathedral Music School in Somerset, England, where he taught academic music and trained the boy and girl choristers at Wells Cathedral in weekly voice lessons. He also sang as a soloist and regular member of the Wells Cathedral Choir until his return to the States in 1995. Scott has been a soloist throughout Europe and South America performing with various orchestras, including the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia, singing such roles as the tenor in Britten’s War Requiem and the Evangelist roles in Bach’s St.Matthew and St. John Passions.
In addition to his work as director of the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, Scott is also on the music faculty at Grand Rapids Community College. Scott and his wife Jane reside in Cascade. Their three sons, Ryan, James and Christopher, are former RSCM choristers. Will grandson, Benjamin, be a future chorister? |  Principal Guest Director/Music Advisor - Dr. Martin Neary
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 Organ Fellow - Ken Bos
Kenneth Bos has been the Organ Fellow for the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys since 2001. He is the regular accompanist for the Calvin College Alumni Choir and he also accompanies for Opera Grand Rapids and for the Harbor Choral Festival. During the summer of 2009 he was pianist-in-residence for the “Baroque on Beaver” festival on Beaver Island. He has recently performed as piano soloist with the Calvin Alumni Orchestra, as organ recitalist in the All Saints Church Summer Recital Series, and as harmonium soloist in the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. He also accompanies regularly for the Michigan School Vocal Music Association and the Michigan Youth Arts Festival.
Dr. Bos is well-known as a pianist, organist, and accompanist in western Michigan. He is on the faculty at Grand Rapids Community College where he serves as Music Department accompanist and also teaches applied piano and piano techniques classes. He is the organist and Director of Music at Calvin Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. Bos has degrees from Calvin College and the University of Michigan, and he holds a doctorate in piano performance from Michigan State University.
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 Assistant Director of Music/Music Theory Form Instructor - Gina Becker
Gina Becker has served the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys in many capacities over the past ten years, recruiting, assisting with rehearsals, accompanying, teaching theory, caring for vestments, serving on the Board of directors, chauffeuring, hosting sleepovers, and most importantly, keeping hope alive and the boys singing while the Board was being reorganized. Gina is a graduate of Michigan State University, majoring in both Vocal and Instrumental Music Education. She taught Vocal Music in Ithaca, Michigan. She has homeschooled her six children, three of whom are currently singing in the choir with her husband, Mark.
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 Rehearsal Accompanist/Music Theory Form Instructor- Susan Guerra
Susan Guerra (Boys’ Rehearsal Accompanist) earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in music and performed with the college orchestra as a piano concerto winner in her senior year. She has played fiddle in a folk rock band in New York City and in Ireland and has been a church musician for many years. She has been the Director of Music at Christ Church, PCA, in Grand Rapids since 2000 and enjoys working with the many musicians there. Susan grew up in a musical family and now has a musical family of her own. Her husband and three children are all multi-instrumentalists and her two sons are in the GRCMB.
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 Boys Vocal Coach - Marcia Plyman
Marcia Pylman has been working with children’s voices for over forty years in five different churches, currently at LaGrave CRC where she has been the children’s choir director for the past seventeen years. She also teaches piano at home. Marcia enjoys working with the GRCMB boys and has been involved with them for the past two years including the boys eight week summer camp. She believes that the more she works with children’s voices, the more those children become convinced of the influence they can have on the church as well as on themselves. Children learn to accept responsibility for themselves and for all those involved in the choir.
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 Composer-In-Residence - Chad Dykema
Chad Dykema is a native of West Michigan and resides in Grand Rapids, Eastown. Mr. Dykema teaches elementary music the Wyoming Public Schools and is Music Director for the locally produced children’s television show, Come On Over. He has earned two regional EMMY awards for his music on Come On Over. He has written four musicals for children, several treble anthems, dozens of songs for Come On Over, and music for radio and television commercials. |
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