Artistic Staff
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 and Orchestral Activities. In addition to his school duties, he serves as Director of Music Ministries at Northminster Presbyterian Church, Choirmaster at Congregation Shaarey Zedek and is the Artistic Director for Madrigal Chorale.
He holds degrees from Southern Oregon University and Michigan State University, where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting in 2013. Dr. Ulrich frequently presents sessions at conventions, and is called upon as a vocal and instrumental clinician and adjudicator across Michigan. He has served on the MSU College of Music Alumni Board of Directors and the Michigan School Vocal Music Association Executive Board.
His ensembles have performed at the Michigan Music Conference, ACDA State and Central Division Conventions, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, and 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 both the Stoney Creek Commissioning Project and the Madrigal Chorale Composition Competition, which annually premier several new works. His own compositions and scholarly editions are published through Boosey & 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.
Robert A. Martin, Ph.D., Director Emeritus
Robert A. Martin is a native Michiganian and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Oakland University. His doctorate is in Educational Leadership with a Music cognate.
He is the former Vocal Music Director, Arts and Communications Academy Coordinator and Assistant Principal at Southfield-Lathrup High School, Principal at Thompson Middle School, Leadership Consultant at Oakland Schools, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction for the West Bloomfield Public Schools and Chief of Staff of Utica Community Schools.
Robert was the Artistic Director of Madrigal Chorale from 1990 until 2017 and is the former Director of the Metropolitan Detroit Youth Chorus and the Lighthouse Singers. In 1991 and 1999, Robert’s peers elected him to conduct a State Honors Choir and in 1999 they voted him Michigan School Vocal Music Association’s Teacher of the Year. In April 2017, Dr. Martin was honored to direct Madrigal Chorale while participating in the Carnegie Hall debut of the Stacey V. Gibbs Chorale.
He is currently semi-retired and the founder of Martin, Martin and Associates, LLC, an educational consulting organization. In Fall 2017, Robert became a Visiting Professor at Oakland University specializing in Educational Leadership and, in 2020, he became a full time Special Instructor. In 2022 Martin became a part of the Center for Strategic Leadership’s Teacher Quality Partnership grant with Wayne State University, Mt. Clemens Schools, Hazel Park Schools, and the Detroit Public Schools Community District.