Our Mission
To broaden the greater community’s understanding of Pagan beliefs and influences through innovative choral experiences.
Who We Are
Orpheus Pagan Chamber Choir (OPCC) is located in Denver, CO and performs 3-4 concerts each year.
Orpheus consists of both professional musicians and those who sing just for the love of the music.
Our History

Orpheus Pagan Chamber Choir was founded in 2009 to celebrate the many earth-based spiritual traditions through song. Beginning with 15 singers, the choir’s first performance was at the 2010 Beltania Festival in Colorado. Its first official season featured three concerts: a sold-out 12th Night Yule Concert and Viking Feast, a spring concert, and a second Beltania performance.
Orpheus soon expanded its concert season with a Rite of Remembrance and a Friends and Family Concert. Additional concerts in 2018-2019 included one at the Denver Public Library, as well as being presented on the Westside Live Presents concert series in Golden, CO.
From its humble beginnings in a beautiful backyard, the Orpeus MeadFest has become the premiere showcase for Colorado’s burgeoning mead industry. The Orpheus MeadFest Competition has grown into one of the largest mead competitions in the country, attracting competitors from around the world.


Artistic Staff
Andrew Adams, Founder & Music Director, has been music director of numerous churches and temples in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. As a professional singer, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Opera Ensemble of New York, the St. Thomas Choir, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Spoleto Festival USA, Festivale dei Due Mondi, Italy; and in concert and recital in the US and Germany. As a soloist with the Westminster Choir, he performed frequently with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and others under Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur, and Robert Shaw.
Mr. Adams holds two graduate degrees from Westminster Choir College, is a published composer/arranger, and maintains a private voice studio in Denver.

Molly Moran, pianist, has received praise as “a musician and pianist of uncommon insight and versatility” with an “intuitive grasp of the intentions of her colleagues.” Molly Moran is one of the Front Range’s most sought-after collaborative pianists. Since graduating with honors from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, Molly has performed with several of Colorado’s orchestras, chamber groups, and choirs. She is the preferred partner of some of the finest singers in Colorado.

The Choir
Sop 1
Cyrissa Anderson*
Sarah Blackwelder (Fall ’24)
Tiffany Blackwell
Maria Forlenza
Michelle Kellogg
Angela Shelley
Sop 2
Sara Cummings
Amelia Davis
Gretchen Ela
Allison Gressett
Amethyst Kellogg
Jade Tiller
Jen Winters
Alto 1/Sop 2
EC Jarecke (Spring ’25)
Alto 1
Jeannette Auman
Andrea Davis
Sarah Davis
Laura Grant
Sam Henderson* (Fall ’24)
Christie Rewey
Lisa Steinman
Alto 2
Sonia Ellison
Barbara Ludwig
Chip Onduto
Cori Siekert
Scotty Tremaine
Ashley Troester* (Spring ’25)
Marti Wedewer
Tenor 1
Heather Austin
Christopher Ellmann
Bonita Lahey
Catherine Mock
Aaron Shelley
Tenor 2
David Carpenter
Brian Bickham
John Bickham
Doug Warburton
Baritone
Alex Breed
Richard Cornelius
Xavier Martinez
Cameron Yanoscik
Bass
Brad Davis
Matthew Kellogg
Justin Nickerson*
Rory Sullivan
*Denotes Section Leader
This is Orpheus


Orpheus Board of Directors

Micayla Bellamy Adams
President

Bonita Lahey
Vice President

Michelle Kellogg
Secretary

Laura Grant
Treasurer

Andrew Adams
Artistic Director

Marti Wedewer
Member-at-Large

Aaron Shelley
Interim Member-at-Large


Micayla Bellamy Adams
President

Bonita Lahey
Vice President

Michelle Kellogg
Secretary

Laura Grant
Treasurer

Andrew Adams
Artistic Director

Marti Wedewer
Member-at-Large

Aaron Shelley
Interim Member-at-Large
Our Non-Discrimination Policy
Orpheus affirms its commitment to an open, welcoming envirornment, and equal opportunity for all by not discriminating in its Board of Directors’ policies, administrative actions, programming operations, and public participation in all its activities on the basis of race, ancestry, sexual orientation and identiy, religion, policitcal affiliation, or any other status prohibited by applicable U.S. law.