Sue Koza, Administrator; Sequoria Dickerson, Program Director; Murray Kidd, Artistic Director

​Artistic Director
Mr. Kidd is the founding conductor of World Voices Youth Choir. As an educator and   
​conductor, he has been awarded grants from the state Massachusetts Cultural
Council, local cultural councils and the Bayrd Foundation. Mr. Kidd has taken part in
many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals including: BBC Proms, Casals
(Puerto Rico), Tanglewood, Ravinia, Edinburgh, All-Beethoven Easter Festival
(Poland), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. He
studied conducting with Simon Carrington, William Dehning and Robert Halseth. His
mentors include Daniel Pinkham, Craig Smith, Martin Isepp, Nico Castel, and Terry
Decima.  
As a choral educator, Mr. Kidd has been very active in a wide range of activities in
Massachusetts. He led the choral department at UMASS Lowell for five years. While
there, the ensembles doubled in size. He has collaborated with Keith Lockhart and
the Boston Pops on a Sony DVD recording of Handel’s Messiah Rocks! by Jason
Howland. He has premiered choral works by Jim Papoulis, Stephen Feigenbaum, and
Joseph Martin. Recently, he held the position of the Director of Choirs at the highly
decorated Oliver Ames High School in Easton and also taught at Middleboro High
School.

Program Director
Sequoria Dickerson has been to over 30 countries studying, working, and praying
with her feet. She is the current Interim Director of Prophetic Resistance Boston, a
nondenominational, nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit that uses the development
of leadership skills to empower citizens to organize their communities and find
solutions to the problems they face. She previously served as a micro-finance
consultant and nonprofit advisor in Cameroon, Central West Africa and spent several
years organizing to change policies that perpetuate the school to prison pipeline and
mass-incarceration in New Orleans, LA. Sequoria has also consulted with nonprofits
on strategic planning and fundraising strategies. She received her B.A. from Dillard
University and is a fellow of the Melton Foundation, the Institute for International
Public Policy, and the U.S. State Department’s prestigious Boren Scholars Program.

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