Former Members


Former Members of RCR


Director

Adam Syed

Adam majored in Music Composition at Trinity University...

Amy Roberts

Amy enjoys doing counted cross-stitch and collecting teapots...

Bethany Hirota-Mabry

Bethany is the hand bell director at Travis Park UMC...

Cathy Norwood

Cathy began ringing with River City Ringers in the fall of 2015...

Cindy Valentine

Cindy is a "bell junky" and currently rings at University UMC...

Claudine Loyd

Claudine knows a little American Sign Language and aspires to learn Cherokee ...

Daniel Long

Dr. Long has devoted much of his professional life to the study of historically informed musical performances...

Debbie Andrews

Debbie enjoys taking care of her grandchildren, reading, playing the piano and hanging out with friends ...

Eric Ficke

Eric's research areas include intrusion detection and cyber security metrics ...

Heath Baxter

Heath loves to ring the low bass bells, and also plays clarinet in the USAA band ...

Heather Westerfield

Heather has been a singer and musician as long as she can remember...

Percussion Guru

James Martinez

James has been the River City Ringers percussion accompanist for the past 13 years ...

Joy Norene

Joy is a true Georgia peach! She is an adjunct professor at Wayland Baptist University ...

Judy Rittimann

Judy has been involved with music since the age of 8 and includes piano, saxophone, marimba and steel pan drums...

Kambi Deuel

Kambi has been a member of the Festival Bells Jubilee and Chancel Choirs at Coker UMC since moving to San...

Karen Andrews

Karen has taught children's handbells and helped to establish a handbell ministry at Bracken UMC ...

Karina Bharne

Karina works for the San Antonio Symphony and is the trombonist of the Olmos Basin Brass brass quintet ...

Katelyn Reilly

Katelyn is a biomedical researcher for a small wound care company in San Antonio ...

Kathy Horejsi

Kathy has been the choir director at Kitty Hawk Middle School in Judson ISD since 1998 ...

Katie Robyn

Katie grew up in Atlanta GA and began playing bells at age 10 ...

Keri Robertson

Keri teaches 5th grade at Randolph Elementary School and started playing handbells at the age of 10 ...

Kimberly Braswell

Kim has been ringing for most of her life, most notably with Carillon of The University of Southern Mississippi ...

Lacey Ward

Lacey is in the U.S. Navy, which has allowed her to play with 10 different handbell choirs across 6 different...

Laura Kaarlsen

Laura's day job as an elementary Art teacher is the best in the world ...

Linda Smith

Linda currently directs five bell/chime choirs for persons age 9 through 89 at University UMC ...

Mary Bull

Mary was a member of the very first handbell choir at Trinity University in the late 70s ...

Michael Hardy-Holley

Michael enjoys photography and going to car shows...

Natalie Belew

Wherever she goes next, Natalie plans on finding a way to do something musical...

Patsy Pelton

Patsy enjoys historical research and in 2004 wrote the 80-year history of the San Antonio Girl Scout Council ...

Phil Lambert

Phil enjoys composing and arranging music for various vocal and instrumental groups ...

Richard Garrett

Richard is a graduate of Texas A&M and was a proud member of the Fighting Texas Aggie Band ...

Stephanie Daniel

Stephanie is an Orff Certified music and movement teacher at Rose Garden Elementary ...

Stephanie Eickman

Stephanie taught music for 6 years before switching to teaching 2nd graders ...

Tara Lewis

Tara was a member of the Austin Handbell Ensemble for 3 years, which fueled her desire to start a community...

Todd Slack

Todd began ringing handbells 10 years ago at First UMC in Cedar Falls, Iowa ...

Trish Kauhaahaa

Trish is originally from Alberta, Canada and currently directs the Middle School Bell Choir at UUMC ...