Dr. Brandon Ulrich, DMA, Artistic Director 

Dr. Brandon Ulrich has been teaching at Stoney Creek High School since the school's inception in 2002, where he currently serves as Director of Choral Activities at Stoney Creek and the Tenor/Bass Chorus at Hart Middle School. He also serves as Choirmaster at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Director of Music Ministries at Northminster Presbyterian Church and is the Artistic Director of the Madrigal Chorale.  

He holds degrees from Southern Oregon University and Michigan State, where he completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting in 2013. Dr. Ulrich frequently presents sessions at conventions, and is called upon as a clinician and adjudicator across the state for both MSVMA and MSBOA. He has served on the Michigan State University College of Music Alumni Board of Directors, and currently serves on the MSVMA Executive Board as Repertoire and Sight Reading Chair.

His ensembles have performed at the Michigan Music Conference, ACDA State and Central Division Conventions, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, frequently perform with the Detroit Symphony and the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, in addition to biennial international tours.  

Dr. Ulrich is an advocate for new music, establishing the Stoney Creek Commissioning Project which annually premiers several new works. His own compositions and scholarly editions are published through Boosey and Hawkes, MusicSpoke, Colla Voce Music Inc. and Musicatus Press.

Betsy Marsh, Associate Director

Betsy Graham Marsh has a BA in music from Albion College and a MM in Choral Conducting from Oakland University, where she studied with Dr. Michael Mitchell.

She was elected by her peers to direct three State Honors Choirs (most recently in 2014) and during her 36-year career as a choral director was twice honored as Rochester Middle School Teacher of the Year. She was also a finalist for the Michigan School Vocal Music Association Teacher of the Year and was honored with an MSVMA Emeritus Award. Still active as an adjudicator and clinician, she is associate director of the St. Paul's UMC Choir and teaches private voice lessons. She was Bella Voce editor for ACDA-MI from 2009-15 and directed the Macomb Children's chorus select ensemble from 2010-2020.

In her retirement, she has become a professional artist. Her favorite cheerleaders are her husband Peter, daughter Darcy, son-in-law Devin and two of the most adorable grandsons ever.

Yaroslav Daniels, Pianist

Ukrainian native Yaroslav Daniels is a concert pianist and winner of numerous international music competitions in the United States, Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is a performing member of Tuesday Musicale of Detroit including concerts at Steinway Music Galleries, the Comic Opera Guild, and LaCorda music associations. Yaroslav earned his Master’s degree in Piano Performance in the United States and his Bachelor’s and another Master’s degree in the prestigious Dnipro Academy of Music in Ukraine. Yaroslav was a soloist of Dnipro State House of Organ and Chamber music, frequently performing with prominent symphonic orchestras and on International music festivals. He currently gives solo and collaborative concerts with prominent musicians, choirs and bands in concert tours across the United States and Europe. Since Feb 2022 Yaroslav organized or participated in more than 25 Benefit Concerts for Ukraine raising thousands of dollars in humanitarian help for Ukraine.