Music Staff

Music Director: Carole Tomhave

Carole Tomhave is a 1982 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California, with a bachelor degree, in Music Education. Her conducting and teaching experience is wide and varied, including 28 years of music ministry in Unity, Methodist, and Lutheran churches. She has also taught  choral, general and instrumental music in California, Maryland and Virginia.  Additionally, Carole is Music Director of the Blue Ridge Chorale based in Culpeper, VA, and serves on the national Music Ministry Team for Unity Worldwide Ministries.  Together with members of New Day, she has led workshops in various aspects of music ministry at regional and national Unity conferences since 2007.

Carole's performance experience includes 11 years as a professional member of the Paul Hill Chorale and the Washington Singers. She also has sung choral masterworks with the Washington Ballet, the National Symphony, Harlem Dance Theatre, and Pacific Northwest Ballet, at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. She has conducted many great choral
works with orchestra, and was music director for productions of "Oliver!", "The Sound of Music," and "Carousel" in California.

A mother of three and a stepmom of two, in her spare time Carole enjoys playing folk and world music, reading, canoeing and hiking.

Our Accompanist: Marianne Tagge

Marianne Tagge has received a BS in Music Education from the University of Illinois and her
MA in Music/Accompanying from George Mason University.  Her performing and teaching
experience is wide and varied. 

She has spent over 30 years in the church music ministry where she has served as the Director
of Music for the various Military Bases where she has lived.  She now serves as the accompanist
for the adult choir at Unity of Fairfax. 

She has also taught general music in the Fairfax County Public Schools for 20 years.  She presently teaches at Beech Tree Elementary. 

A mother of two, in her spare time she enjoys other musical activities from accompanying children for solo and ensemble contest and other various recitals to playing with her 3
(soon to be 4) grandsons.