🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome Casey Eaton and Jeremy Tucker into their new roles as our Co-Oak Choir Directors!

Casey Eaton, Raleigh, NC native, currently serves as the Music Teacher and Choir Director at Lead Mine Elementary School (and previously as the Acorns Director with Raleigh Youth Choir for two years). She began her teaching career in Waco, Texas before returning to Wake County three years ago. Her passions as a director lie in community: creating and cultivating one with her singers, and plugging in to the one around them. As a result, her choirs have tripled in size over the course of two years and performed at multiple festivals and invitationals across the county. In addition to teaching, she has over a decade of experience teaching private voice—ages 6 to graduate level—and remains an active performer and soloist across the Carolinas. Mrs. Eaton holds degrees from Baylor University (M.M. Voice Performance), where she taught private voice as a graduate assistant and performed in choirs under the direction of Drs. Brian Schmidt and Lynne Gackle, and East Carolina University (B.M. Voice Performance and Music Education, dual degree), where she sang with the internationally-acclaimed Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Andrew Crane. Mrs. Eaton currently resides in Raleigh with her choral director husband Andy, 4 year old Henry, dog (Stella), and cat (George). ——— Jeremy C. Tucker has served as the RYC Artistic Director since 2014 and has focused on collaboration with ensembles, including the North Carolina Symphony, Carolina Ballet, and North Carolina Master Chorale. A native of North Carolina and Director of Arts Education for the Wake County Public School System, he holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in music education, is a Nationally Board-Certified Teacher, and a winner of the North Carolina Schools Regional Teacher of the Year, as well as the North Carolina Symphony’s Maxine Swalin Outstanding Educator Award, and the 2020 Raleigh Medal of Arts. He is the past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Please join us in giving Casey and Jeremy a warm welcome