Carole Tomhave is a 1982 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California, with a bachelor degree in Music Education.
Her conducting and teaching experience is wide and varied, including 33 years of music ministry in Unity, Methodist, and Lutheran churches. She has also taught choral, general and instrumental music in California, Maryland and Virginia. Additionally, she is a chorister with the Blue Ridge Singers based in Front Royal VA. Singly and with members of New Day, she has led workshops in various aspects of music ministry at regional and national Unity conferences since 2007, and has organized numerous concert series, retreats and festivals.
Carole’s performance experience includes 11 years as a professional member of the Paul Hill Chorale and the Washington Singers.
She also has sung choral masterworks with the Washington Ballet, the National Symphony, Harlem Dance Theatre, and Pacific Northwest Ballet, at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. She has conducted many great choral works with orchestra, and was music director for productions of “Oliver!”, “The Sound of Music,” and “Carousel” in California.
A mother of three and a stepmom of two, in her spare time Carole enjoys playing folk and world music, reading, canoeing, skiing and hiking.