Sandra Dibble (President) - Sandra Dibble is a longtime journalist who has covered the Tijuana-San Diego border since 1994, and has been active in Tijuana music circles, primarily as an audience member but also as an alto. She sang with the Tijuana Opera chorus, performing scenes from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. More recently, she has been singing with Meraki, an all-female a cappella ensemble in Tijuana led by the Cuban director Daria Abreu. Over the years, she has built a broad network of contacts in the city’s classical music community and has had the pleasure of bringing together musicians from both sides of the border to perform together.

Aaron Humble (Secretary) - Described as remarkably virtuosic by the Columbus Republic and transcendent by the Daytona Beach News Journal, tenor and conductor Aaron Humble originally hails from Northeast Ohio.  Aaron has enjoyed solo appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Columbus Philharmonic, the Mankato Symphony, and the Boston Pops and chamber music appearances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and The Chautauqua Institute.  During his tenure with Cantus, Aaron sang nearly 1000 concerts and recorded 10 albums with one of the nation’s premier vocal ensembles.  Aaron has recently sung as a soloist and ensemble singer with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Tucson’s Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices, and Orchestra, and The Grammy-Nominated South Dakota Chorale while also remaining active regionally and nationally as a soloist in recital and oratorio. An Assistant Professor of Music, Aaron was recently appointed to lead the vocal and choral area at California State University San Marcos.

A graduate of Millikin University, Aaron holds the Doctor of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. As Aaron directs his focus toward teaching, he continues to perform as a recital and concert singer as well as maintaining his work as a clinician in a variety of vocal and choral settings including his work as a cantor at St. Joseph Cathedral in San Diego. An avid gardener and home improvement devotee, Aaron and his husband Xu, make their home in New York and San Diego with their two cats, Chopstick and Toothpick.

Stephanie Weaver Yankee (Treasurer) - A native of Canada, pianistStephanie Weaver received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance and literature from the University of Western Ontario and her Doctor of Musical Arts, also in piano performance and literature, from Michigan State University. She has served on the faculties of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Grand Valley State University and Concordia University. From 2011 – 2019 she was the Executive Director of the Cape Conservatory, following the 2010 merger of the Cape Symphony and Conservatory. Prior to her tenure on Cape Cod, she was the Executive Director of the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts, one of more than 800 educational centers across the nation affiliated with the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. Dr. Weaver is currently the Executive Director of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, having recently relocated to San Diego CA. Weaver’s ongoing mission is to make the arts more accessible to music lovers of all ages and to make the performing arts a continual source of inspiration—inside the classroom and out in the community.

Daria Abreau Feraud - Daria began her musical studies in 1983 at the José María Heredia Vocational Art School in Santiago de Cuba, specializing in violin. She later attended the Esteban Salas Conservatory for her high school studies, where she focused on choral conducting with Anarelis Garriga and Electo Silva.

In 1995, she launched her musical career as a singer and assistant conductor for the Orfeón Santiago Choir in Santiago de Cuba. That same year, she began teaching choral conducting and solfege at the Esteban Salas Conservatory. She also began directing the Sirenas Women’s Choir.

In 2008, she graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, under the tutelage of the Cuban composer and orchestra conductor Guido López Gavilán. In 2017, she earned her Master of Science Degree in orchestral conducting from the Universidad de las Artes in Havana.

Among the orchestras she has conducted are: the Esteban Salas Conservatory Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Esteban Salas Camerata, and the Camagüey and Villa Clara Symphony Orchestras, the Oriente Symphony Orchestra, and the Baja California Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, she conducted the famous U.S. soprano Barbara Hendricks with the Oriente Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2009, she has been a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Until 2021, she served as a member of the Program for the Development of Choral Music in Cuba. Throughout her career, she has attended various courses and master classes with maestros such as Carl Högset, Javier Busto, Dante Andreo, María Felicia Pérez, Cristian Grases, Frank F. Eychaner, among others. With the Orfeón Santiago Choir, she has toured extensively both nationally and internationally, including Mexico, Spain, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and France.

She has participated in several festivals such as: El Cervantino, Karu Koral, América Cantat, Corhabana, the “Les Voix Humaines” Festival, the Turrialba Choir Festival in Costa Rica, Coralifornia, Tlaxcala Canta, and the 2nd Edition of the International Festival of Women’s Choirs of Latin America (FICFE) held in Guadalajara.

She has taught workshops in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica, and at the América Cantat 8 International Festival held in the Bahamas in 2016. In 2025, she participated in the premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York City of the work Xantolo by composer Julio Morales.

Since 2018, she has been the Artistic Director of Promotora de las Bellas Artes in Tijuana, Baja California, and Director of the Estorninos Selection Choir and the Meraki Women ‘s Choir.

Dzaya Castillo Jiménez - Graduated with a degree in singing from the Higher School of Music of the National Institute of Fine Arts of  Mexico. She has a postgraduate diploma in Mexican Ethnomusicology and studied in the Voce in Tempore Choral Conducting Diploma. 

From 2014 to 2023, she served as coordinator of the Choirs “Redes 2025” from the Community  Orchestras and Choirs Program of the BC Musical Arts Center. In this year, she continues her work  as director of the Coros Redes now as part of the State Music System of the Baja California Institute  of Culture. She also directs the Wa-Kuatay Choir of the Rosarito State Arts Center and the Choir of  the Tijuana Security Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute.  In 2018, together with choral directors from the region, she created and directed the Coralifornia  International Festival. A Song without Borders, which in 2023 already celebrated its fifth edition. 

She is the delegate of Baja California to the National Network of Choir Directors in Mexico. She has been assistant facilitator of doctors Andre de Quadros and Emilie Amrein in working with  the Empowering Song! Methodology in Migrant shelters in Tijuana, Baja California. From November 2010 to December 2013 she was the academic head of the Trainers of Trainers of  Ah, Que la Canción! Mexican Music in the Community of the RedeseArte Culture of Peace Program  in the cities: Ciudad Juárez, Nogales, Tapachula and San Luis Potosí. Collaborator in the publication  of the Activities Guide Ah, that song! Coordinated by Doctor Lucina Jiménez; which links the songs of the Mexican music songbook prepared by CONARTE with the thematic axes of the elementary  school curriculum; In addition to guiding classroom teachers in vocal work and song assembly, she teaches classes on the History of Mexican Music and singing for the bachelor’s degrees at the Musical Arts Center. 

She belonged to the cast of the National Children’s Program “Alas y Raíces” of CONACULTA and for  11 years to the artistic cast of the “Música a la Escuela” program of the Secretary of Public Education  in Mexico City, where she has performed countless concerts for children and young people in México.  

Yewon Lee - Dr. Yewon Lee is a much sought after conductor and collaborative pianist on the operatic and concert stage. Prior to relocating to San Diego, Dr. Lee was Assistant Music Director of Opera at Baldwin Wallace University and Adjunct Professor at Kent State University. In the operatic world, Dr. Lee coached at Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater, National Opera Center, Aspen Opera Theater Center, and International Vocal Arts Institute in Israel, France, Italy, and Japan. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Lee received a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Seoul National University, completed her Master of Music degree in Vocal Accompanying at Manhattan School of Music and earned an Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano from the Juilliard School. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is a music director of the San Diego Festival Chorus and the San Dieguito United Methodist Church. She also serves as the Far South Representative for the California Choral Directors Association.

Kevin Wright - A longtime member of the choral community in San Diego, Kevin Wright is excited to take on a more direct role in the operations of the Choral Consortium of San Diego. He most recently served as Vice President of Encore Vocal Ensemble, an organization deeply committed to its membership in the Consortium. In that role, he also acted as Encore’s representative to CCSD, making board service a natural extension of his work. Kevin brings a strong belief in organizational collaboration, cross promotion, and active committee engagement. He is passionate about supporting both new and existing initiatives that strengthen connections across the choral community. His experience has shown that engagement and investment go hand in hand, and that empowering individuals to contribute their unique talents fosters a more vibrant and energized organization. He is particularly committed to deepening relationships among community choirs, recognizing that these groups are often each other’s greatest supporters. Kevin looks forward to helping expand community events, enhance communication between organizations, and ensure that the collective impact of CCSD continues to be greater than the sum of its parts.