About Us
C# is an organization which develops programs that contribute to the growth of a supportive musical community: a place where members are encouraged to unwind from academics by challenging themselves as singers, performers, and leaders. This community is home to the C# Singers, our competitive a cappella group, and the D♭ Singers, our serious choir group. Each group is comprised of students dedicated to growing as musicians and fostering the musical community at CMU.
Founding
C# began in Fall 2012, when 5 SCS freshmen ended stressful late nights in Gates with music and video games. As the year went on and their love for music grew, the party decided to continue singing under the name C# as a tribute to... well, you get the idea. In Fall 2013, Emily Yeh and Ivan Wang founded C#, inspired by the quirky community at CMU and encouraged by the efforts against stress in SCS.
Music
C#'s music selection ranges from classics and pop artist mixes to video game compositions and modern mashups. Recent songs range from Worry About You, Can't Help Falling in Love, and an Ariana Grande Medley to Russian tongue twisters and in-house compositions.
Mission
C# is a guild of competitive and performance groups that develop collaborative learning, support, and vocal performance opportunities and programs that contribute to the growth of a supportive learning community. The community is built as a platform for pursuing the cooperative growth of casual and experienced vocal performers and groups.
Directors & Cabinet
Gabriel Krotkov - President
Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
"He will countercoil your ass" - Jacob Feldgoise
Mary Kate Cooke - Vice President Internal and Technical Director
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Engineering major from Chicago who loves music, her dogs (Do you want to see them?), and dabbing. A chaotic neutral fueled by coffee that can be found napping around campus wearing one of seven beanies.
Jacob Feldgoise - Vice President External and Photographer
Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Hailing from Massachusetts Jacob was shocked to discover, upon coming to CMU, that there's a political party called the GOP. An aggressive pedestrian and self-defenestrator, Jacob takes meme-worthy snips for the benefit of glorious C# republik.
Christina Chi - Concert Group Director and Design Chair
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Major: ECE | Home State: NJ | Likes: small dogs, succulent plants | Hobbies: crafting, cosplay, playing the piano | Favorite Key: c minor | Blood Type: tea
Rie Ohta - C# Singers Director
Alto - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
CS major from California who loves to dance, sing, nap, and eat. Usually found potatoing in bed; can sometimes be spotted socializing in the wild (rare!!).
Kat Strickland - D♭ Singers Director
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Freshman in Civil and Environmental Engineering. One of my favorite hobbies is collecting images of clarinet players, like our conductor Christian.
Melody Olvera - Concert Group Conductor and Webmaster
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Former bass section leader; still making sure our section is always heard. Because the real Melody is always in the basses.
Tina Chou - C# Singers Conductor
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2018
CS major | Seattle
Christian Bernard - D♭ Singers Conductor
Tenor - Freshman - Joined Fall 2015
Christian is a Music Major in oboe performance, studying conducting. Basically, you can say he's dedicated to making music any opportunity he gets.
Jocelyn Gao - Treasurer and C# Social Media Chair
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Jocelyn Gao is a sophomore in the Tepper School of Business. She is aka female Bryant🙏🏼
Gabriela Perez-Lozano - Secretary
Soprano - Senior - Joined Fall 2017
Mechanical and biomedical engineering major from Houston, TX. Was in choir throughout high school and joined C# to sing, make friends, and stay sane in college.
Yelim Kim - Choreographer
Soprano - Senior - Joined Spring 2017
Art major lugging around camera equipment half the time you see her
Jon Goodstein - Fundraising Chair
Bass - Junior - Joined Fall 2018
A chem major from York, PA (a.k.a. middle of nowhere). Cooks, bakes, exercises, and spends time outside when not stuck in lab. Travels whenever possible.
Bryant Chung - Recruitment Chair
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
A Material Science/Biomedical Engineering double major. Biggest hobbies are listening to K-Pop, playing video games, and hanging out with/roasting friends.
Sabrina Zanello Jackson - D♭ Social Media Chair
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
BFA Dramaturgy major from Houston, Texas, who hopes to get her PhD in Vine. Lover of dance, puppers, food, summer sun, and puns.
C♯ Singers
Bryant Chung
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
A Material Science/Biomedical Engineering double major. Biggest hobbies are listening to K-Pop, playing video games, and hanging out with/roasting friends.
Christine Wu
Alto - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
CogSci/StatML double from California who hates the weather in Pittsburgh but loves the people!
Emma Parks
Soprano - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Hello! I'm a pre-med Chemical and Biomedical Engineering double major. I love to sing, volunteer, run, and read. If you're interested in our organization, contact us! We're so excited to sing with you <3
Gabriel Krotkov
Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
"He will countercoil your ass" - Jacob Feldgoise
Jessica Hutchison
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Jocelyn Gao
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Jocelyn Gao is a sophomore in the Tepper School of Business. She is aka female Bryant🙏🏼
Kat Strickland
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Freshman in Civil and Environmental Engineering. One of my favorite hobbies is collecting images of clarinet players, like our conductor Christian.
Kevin Shim
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
From Seoul and Los Angeles, I'm a big ol' Korean bassy boi BAH
Mary Kate Cooke
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Engineering major from Chicago who loves music, her dogs (Do you want to see them?), and dabbing. A chaotic neutral fueled by coffee that can be found napping around campus wearing one of seven beanies.
Max Yeh (Bryant 2)
Baritone/Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Born and raised in New Jersey. Social and Decision Sciences. Self-proclaimed meme connoisseur. BariTenor boi.
Neeraj Sathe
Tenor - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
A CS/Comp Bio double who's biggest personality trait is being from California. You will almost always either see him complaining about being a tenor, doing bhangra, or being decimated by the weather.
Rie Ohta
Alto - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
CS major from California who loves to dance, sing, nap, and eat. Usually found potatoing in bed; can sometimes be spotted socializing in the wild (rare!!).
Ryan Liu
Baritone - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
CIT student with roots from both Palo Alto and Beijing. Aspires to improve his singing skills, but most of all, to make many friends in the process : )
Tina Chou
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2018
CS major | Seattle
D♭ Singers
Adrian Kelesoglou
Bass - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
A Greek CS major from Istanbul, Turkey. Interests include eating and cooking food, music that satisfies your soul at the moment, tennis, and cars.
Alec Church
Bass - IMB Student - Joined Spring 2016
Alec hails from the far away and mysterious land of Southern California. He likes long walks in the park, books, playing fetch, chocolate, and belly rubs. To describe him in four words: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl.
Alisha Singh
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Angel Peprah
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
I do not enjoy long walks on the beach but I will talk to anyone about soundtracks for literally hours.
Avanti Pandit
Soprano - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Avanti is a chemistry major from Portland, Oregon! It's too easy to make her laugh or smile (bad jokes work well). Her ultimate aspiration is to turn lead into gold in an unbearably tepid cave full of magma far beneath the ocean floor, because why not.
Carmel Baharav
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Carmel is a freshman majoring in ECE. She's from Palo Alto, California, and loves dogs, pastries, and puns!
Christian Bernard
Tenor - Freshman - Joined Fall 2015
Christian is a Music Major in oboe performance, studying conducting. Basically, you can say he's dedicated to making music any opportunity he gets.
Christina Chi
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Major: ECE | Home State: NJ | Likes: small dogs, succulent plants | Hobbies: crafting, cosplay, playing the piano | Favorite Key: c minor | Blood Type: tea
Doug Heymann
Bass - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
StatML major from Portland, OR. Enjoys swimming, singing, and laughing at inopportune times. Probably has more boxes of cereal in his room than do most American families.
Estella Dentinger
Alto - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Business major made in Ohio. A friendly, wholesome smol bean who turns sassy when people are late to rehearsal. Metas del escuadrón.
Gabriela Perez-Lozano
Soprano - Senior - Joined Fall 2017
Mechanical and biomedical engineering major from Houston, TX. Was in choir throughout high school and joined C# to sing, make friends, and stay sane in college.
Gabriel Krotkov
Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
"He will countercoil your ass" - Jacob Feldgoise
George Yu
Tenor - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Hannah Chan
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Isha Gadgil
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
A spicy BME/ChemE freshman who will harmonize with anything. Amazing hair, great shoes, and a singular fuzzy hat. Passions include collecting trees and paper clips. She is sarcastic because she loves you.
Isolde Moyer
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Stat/ML major from Maryland. I love singing, satiating my addiction to fiction novels, and drinking tea with too much honey in it.
Jacob Feldgoise
Tenor - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Hailing from Massachusetts Jacob was shocked to discover, upon coming to CMU, that there's a political party called the GOP. An aggressive pedestrian and self-defenestrator, Jacob takes meme-worthy snips for the benefit of glorious C# republik.
James Biltz
Tenor - Freshman - Joined Spring 2016
Wants to win Survivor and own a pinball machine. Knows a lot of fun facts about themeparks. Thinks Cars 3 is a great film.
Jason Gong
Bass - Senior - Joined Spring 2017
I'm a computer science major in Db singers, with a minor in Engineering Studies(i.e. I transferred super late into CS and had a bunch of extra CIT credits lying around). Currently into rock climbing and DnD.
Jessica Fang
Soprano - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
CS and Japanese double major from Maryland. Hobbies include fashion, drawing manga, watching k-dramas, k-pop.
Jessica Hutchison
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Jon Goodstein
Bass - Junior - Joined Fall 2018
A chem major from York, PA (a.k.a. middle of nowhere). Cooks, bakes, exercises, and spends time outside when not stuck in lab. Travels whenever possible.
Kat Strickland
Alto - Junior - Joined Fall 2017
Freshman in Civil and Environmental Engineering. One of my favorite hobbies is collecting images of clarinet players, like our conductor Christian.
Lucy Altus
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Spring 2019
Voice major from New York who struggles to hear the difference between a perfect 5th and a perfect octave. Enjoys New Girl, saying "go off," and performing the one breakdancing move she knows at random times.
Mary Kate Cooke
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Engineering major from Chicago who loves music, her dogs (Do you want to see them?), and dabbing. A chaotic neutral fueled by coffee that can be found napping around campus wearing one of seven beanies.
Melody Olvera
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Former bass section leader; still making sure our section is always heard. Because the real Melody is always in the basses.
Michalina Lacheta
Soprano - Sophomore - Joined Spring 2019
Ned Rowland
Bass - Senior - Joined Fall 2016
Junior in MatSci. Fun fact: I just had a very tasty dinner and am looking forward to another one tomorrow.
Peter Shi
Bass - Senior - Joined Spring 2018
CS + math major from Nanjing, China. Loves solving challenging math problems. Interested in guitar, billiards, Chinese calligraphy and everything about my hometown :-)
Sabrina Zanello Jackson
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
BFA Dramaturgy major from Houston, Texas, who hopes to get her PhD in Vine. Lover of dance, puppers, food, summer sun, and puns.
Thomas Cho
Baritone - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
A freshman math and philosophy major whose voice is a bit too low compared to his height. Will lecture you on meme semantics and philosophy for hours if given the chance.
Victoria Shiau
Alto - Sophomore - Joined Fall 2018
Yelim Kim
Soprano - Senior - Joined Spring 2017
Art major lugging around camera equipment half the time you see her