About the Choir Directors
Hunter Chadeayne
Director, Warren County Community Singers
Hunter Chadeayne is a 2005 graduate of Phillipsburg High School. He continued his education at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA. In 2009, Hunter graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a concentration in Music Education. Hunter was a first-place finalist for the Allegheny Chapter of NATS (National Association of Teaching Singing) in 2008 and 2009. While attending LVC, he had the opportunity to perform with the Harrisburg Opera Society, as well as travel abroad to sing in Austria, Prague, Budapest and Salzburg. Since 2010, Hunter has served as Organist and Director of Music at Belvidere United Methodist Church in Belvidere, NJ. He also teaches music in Quakertown, PA and has musically directed in many High Schools all over the Lehigh Valley, participating in The Freddy Awards. In 2012, Hunter joined the Warren County Community Singers as a member of the Tenor section under the direction of Bob Riday. In 2014, he became the artistic director and conductor of the group seeing them through their 25th Season celebration in 2017.
Hunter has performed regionally in the tri-state area in shows, concerts, cabarets, and recitals. Hunter is a 5 time nominee and 2 time winner within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Theatre Alliance for his music and vocal direction. In the summer of 2021, Hunter was nominated for a broadwayworld.com award for his musical direction and work at the historic Shawnee Playhouse, located in the Pocono Mountains. Hunter also has a voice studio of students out of his home in Norristown, PA, where he lives with his Husband, Paul.
Mariah Adams
Director, Children's Choir of Warren County
Mariah is a graduate of Lock Haven University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a concentration in Vocal Performance. She received her K-12 Teaching certificate through The Pennsylvania State University. She has been teaching Music for the Allamuchy Township School District since 2002. The Allamuchy Township School Chorus has participated in the High Note Music Festivals, the 6abc Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the WSUS Kids Christmas Concert Series.
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Mariah has been featured in “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers,” and “Who’s Who in America”, representing music educators from NJ. In 2011, she was selected Allamuchy Township School’s “Teacher of the Year.” Mariah enjoys performing with the Warren County Community Singers, as well as acting with community theater groups in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mariah is a cantor for St. Patrick’s Church in Belvidere, and sings with the choir at the Belvidere United Methodist Church.
Ann Hoyt
Associate Director and Accompanist,
Warren County Community Singers
Ann is a graduate of Westminster Choir College (now of Rider University), Princeton, NJ, with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education majoring in organ performance. There she sang in the Symphonic Choir with many notable conductors and in many renowned concert halls such as David Geffen (formerly Avery Fisher Hall) in NYC and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Ann has been active in church music ministry for 50 years. She has served the Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal and Catholic denominations. Currently she is the Organist and Music Director at St. Patrick RC Church in Belvidere, NJ and St. Rose of Lima Church in Oxford, NJ. She is retired as a vocal and instrumental public school music teacher and has been active in community theater groups as an accompanist and music director as well as on stage.
Ann was an integral part of the 1993 founding of the Warren County Community Singers and has been the Associate Director and Accompanist for 30 years. She considers herself to be very blessed to be actively involved with two passions of church music ministry and community music making.