Sarah Inendino

Director, Cantabile

Sarah Inendino is originally from Northern Michigan, where she graduated with high honors from Interlochen Arts Academy and studied voice. She attended Northwestern University where she earned a Bachelors of Music in Music Education with a specialization in choral education. Sarah completed her Masters of Arts degree at Columbia University in New York City. Her specializations include choral conducting, voice pedagogy, and elementary general music.

Sarah began her career by conducting children’s choirs in Wilmette, Illinois and teaching private voice lessons. Afterwards, she taught 3rd-5th grade general music and chorus for eight years in Glenview, Illinois. Sarah left her position in Glenview to purse a PhD in Music Education, and recently completed her second year at the University of Michigan. While at the University of Michigan, she specialized in choral conducting, spending the last two years as the assistant choral conductor for the Michigan Youth Ensembles. Sarah also works with the Harper Festival Chorus as their assistant conductor, and as a private voice instructor at high schools in the Chicago suburbs. Additionally, Sarah is also active in musical theatre, as a performer, vocal coach, and music director.

In addition to her teaching, Sarah has served on the Illinois American Choral Directors Association State Board, and currently services on the Elementary General Music Divisionary Council for the Illinois Music Education Association. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, spending time with family, bird watching and yoga.

Tim Koll

Director, Schaumburg Choral Artists

Tim Koll teaches at Conant High school in Township High School District 211. At Conant he directs all curricular choirs and serves as the department chair of music. He is also the director of the variety show and music director of the musical. 

He completed his undergraduate degree in Music Education with an emphasis in vocal music from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. Additionally, he completed a Master of Music Education degree from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, IL and a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Principal Preparation from Concordia University in River Forest, IL. 

Erin Kozakis

Director, Prelude

Erin Kozakis is an enthusiastic and passionate music educator and performer.She is the general music teacher and choir director at Prospect Elementary School in Hinsdale/ Clarendon Hills District 181.A strong believer that singing is the basis of all music learning, she specializes in teaching through active music-making, weaving Orff and Kodaly principles together in the classroom.

With over 10 years of teaching experience, Ms. Kozakis previously taught at Hoffman School in Glenview, where she taught general music and led a choir of over 125 students, and at Franzen and Benson Schools in Itasca, IL.

Equally at home in the classroom or on the stage, Erin also serves as principal bassoonist with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with the Elgin, Rockford and Quad City Symphonies, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Ms. Kozakis has specialized training in the Orff and Kodaly methods of music education, as well as children’s choral conducting and instructional technology.She holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music, a MM from DePaul University, and a MMEd from Northern Illinois University.

A native of Geneseo, IL, Ms. Kozakis currently lives in Schaumburg with her husband, Michael, and two children.She can often be found on the bike trails of Schaumburg with her family, often singing as they ride!

Meagan Zahora

Director, SCA2

Meagan Zahora graduated with her Bachelors in Choral Music Education from Illinois State, where she was an avid member of the ISU Madrigals, Concert Choir, and founding member of "On the Brink of Normal." She was also one of four US singers accepted into Orvieto Musica (2011) - a chamber music program in Italy. She began her first career at Morrison High School, in Morrison, IL, where she was the Director of Choral Activities for three years. In 2016, she accepted the Director of Choral Activities position at Elgin High School, and later inherited the theatre program as well, inspiring her to obtain her Masters in Theatre Directing from Roosevelt University in 2023. Ms. Zahora directed five curricular choirs, a number of musicals and straight plays, and she taught 4 curricular choirs and two theatre classes at EHS. She has also served as the Fox Valley Music Festival President, an IMEC clinician, and she continues to freelance direct theatre productions in the Chicagoland area (most recently, Big Noise Theatre's upcoming production of Freaky Friday the Musical). Ms. Zahora is also an enthusiastic performer. She is currently a part of the Schaumburg Choral Artists, and she fronts an Indie-Rock band with her partner, TJ.