Dr. Doyle Preheim is Professor Emeritus of Music, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana where he taught music for thirty years and served as Music Department Chair for fifteen years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from Bethel College (KS). The Master of Music in Church Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Music were received from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Preheim studied conducting with Charles Hirt, James Vail and Daniel Lewis at the University of Southern California. Further choral training was done with Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling and John Alldis. Dr. Preheim is also a vocalist, having trained with Walter Jost (Bethel College), William Vennard, James Lowand and Gwendolyn Koldofsky (USC), Ron Combs (Chicago), and Norman Shetler and Frau Rössel Majden (Vienna).

Dr. Preheim's choirs have performed at the Indiana State Music Educators Conference and the Regional Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. In 1988, a Goshen College Choir under Dr. Preheim's direction participated in the First International Choral Festival in Cambridge, England, and in 1999, his Goshen College Chamber Choir performed a solo concert in Carnegie Hall. Dr. Preheim and his wife, Mary Jo, have also led three Goshen College Alumni Choir Tours to Central Europe and Scandinavia. In 1983, Dr. Preheim founded, and for fourteen years conducted, the Goshen Community Chorale. He has also served as conductor of the Elkhart County Camerata Singers and the Elkhart County Symphony Chorus.

Dr. Preheim has been heard widely as bass soloist in oratorio roles, including Elijah by Mendelssohn, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Bach's B-Minor Mass. He has sung the Mozart roles of Don Giovanni, Guglielmo and the Count, as well as Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme. Together with his wife, pianist Mary Jo Preheim, he has presented solo recitals in various venues in the Midwest and parts of Canada.

Doyle and Mary Jo moved to Santa Fe in 2003.   He was appointed musical director of Sangre de Cristo Chorale in Spring of 2004.   He was hired as instructor of voice at College of Santa Fe in January of 2006 and also has a private voice studio in his home.   Dr. Preheim has appeared in concert with Pro Musica of Santa Fe and with Canticum Novum.

A native of Newton, Kansas, Mary Jo Preheim holds the Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio, and the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. At K.U. she completed course work toward the Doctor of Musical Arts degree and performed as a regular participant in master classes with Leon Fleisher (four years) and with Claude Frank (two years).

Mrs. Preheim has taught applied piano at Bluffton College, at Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, Texas), at Prince Georges Community College (Largo, Maryland), and at Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) where she also taught music theory. She also maintained a full-time private piano studio in Goshen, Indiana.

Mrs. Preheim has maintained an active performing schedule as accompanist for the Goshen Community Chorale, the Goshen College Chamber Choir, as a chamber musician, and as accompanist for many instrumental and vocal soloists, most notably her husband, baritone Doyle C. Preheim. Together the Preheims have performed throughout the Midwest and in Ontario, Canada. They served as leaders for three Goshen College Alumni Choir Tours visiting a total of 11 countries in Europe, including Russia and Scandinavia.

Since June 2003 Mary Jo and Doyle have made their home in Santa Fe, where she works in the Santa Fe Public Schools, and serves as accompanist for the Sangre de Cristo Chorale and for various local soloists.