Tuscany Choral Experience

Dr. Jennaya Robison is in demand as a conductor, clinician, and soprano throughout the United States. She currently serves as the Artistic Director for the National Lutheran Choir (Minneapolis, MN) where she is the third artistic director in the organization’s 37-year history. Robison most recently served as Director of Choral Studies in the Conservatory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has held previous positions at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. She has held state, regional, and national leadership roles with the American Choral Directors Association.

Robison has conducted and taught courses in choral singing and global connection in the United States, Namibia, South Africa, and Germany and currently serves as the Artistic Dean of the Zephyr Point Summer Music Festival at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. She has served as an invited conductor and clinician for numerous all-state festivals and honor choirs throughout the United State and has presented at national, regional, and state ACDA, NAfMe, and NATS conferences.

Her choral series is published with Pavane Publishing, and she serves the editor of the National Lutheran Choir series through Morningstar music. Additional arrangements and compositions are published by Kjos Music, Morningstar Music, and Galaxy Music.

Dr. Brett Robison has conducted choirs and orchestras for the past twenty-five years and is currently in his third season as the artistic director of the Topeka Festival Singers.

Dr. Robison is the executive director of the Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, a performing arts organization that presents performances from the world’s top solo and chamber musicians. He previously served as the executive director of the Topeka Symphony. Dr. Robison founded the music nonprofit organization Scottsdale Musical Arts and served as the artistic and executive director. He also directed the youth symphony and adult orchestra programs while also serving as the assistant director of the children’s choirs and professional adult choir, Scottsdale Choral Artists. Dr. Robison served as the Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Viterbo University and Waldorf University. He taught conducting, choral methods, and private voice lessons. Dr. Robison has served church music ministries for over twenty years and is currently the choir director at Trinity Lutheran in Mission, Kansas.

Dr. Robison received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Luther College, a Master of Music in Conducting from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Business Administration, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Arizona.

William Kyle and Alex Hay founded Resonate Tours based on their shared passion for music and travel.

William connected with music singing in choir and "graduated" to handbells becoming an integral part of the local, national and international handbell community. He founded Handbell Ventures, was Music Director of Bay Bells, rang with Velocity Handbell Ensemble, and has published original compositions and arrangements for handbells and chorus. He served as Assistant Music Director at Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos for 13 years.

Alex has played violin with community orchestras across the United States, including the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, the San Francisco Civic Symphony and the Lexington Community Orchestra. As a handbell musician, he rang with pop-cover handbell band Bell Appeal, known for creativity in music programming and audience engagement.

A life of living in various cities in multiple countries has led William and Alex to reside in Lisbon, Portugal, a 21st-century intersection of world cultures.