Jerry Rubino was appointed music director of Voices of Experience in 2011 and serves on the MacPhail faculty in the voice and piano departments.  He holds piano, voice, music education, and conducting degrees from Temple University and the University of Minnesota. He has taught at Northwestern, Augsburg, and Carleton Colleges.  A native of Philadelphia, he attended Curtis Institute as a cellist.  He serves as Minister of Music at Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and is a staff conductor and professional singer with the Minnesota Chorale.  Rubino worked for twenty-three seasons with the Dale Warland Singers as associate conductor, director of special projects and music education, pianist, singer, and arranger.  His credits include honors choirs in Australia, Taiwan, Hawaii, and Europe, and he is a series editor and workshop presenter for Oxford University Press and the Hal Leonard Corporation. 

Recognized for her exacting standards in choir training, Romey has led the Chorale in performances across local, national, and international platforms. She has prepared the ensemble for collaborations with esteemed conductors and orchestras, including the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Romey also spearheads the Bridges series, a celebrated community engagement initiative to foster musical and social connections, expand the choral canon, and address societal needs through choral music.

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Bryon Wilson is a freelance pianist based in Minneapolis. Bryon divides his time between teaching, coaching, and performing. He has appeared with numerous artistic organizations, including Schubert Club, Source Song Festival, Thursday Musical, NATS, Mill City Opera, Out of the Box Opera, and River Sounds in Ft. Lauderdale. In 2015 Bryon performed in the world premiere of Minnesota Concert Opera’s La Divina, a one-woman play about Maria Callas. Bryon also studies and performs music composed by holocaust prisoners in Theresienstadt and recently presented a lecture-recital on the topic as part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas series on Holocaust survivors in Minnesota.

Bryon maintains an active piano studio, and his students have entered music programs at Indiana University, New York University, Boston University, and Interlochen Arts Camp. During his Master’s and Doctoral studies in Collaborative Piano at the University of Minnesota, Bryon studied with Timothy Lovelace, Noriko Kawai, Debra Bakland, and Margo Garrett. Bryon is the pianist for The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists, on the faculty of Macphail Center for Music, and is an organist at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Edina, MN. Bryon also spends two months every summer commercial salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, AK.