Eliza Rubenstein, Director of Music Ministries, has been at Mesa Verde since 1997. She also directs the Orange County Women's Chorus and the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra, and teaches at the Colburn School of Music. Native to Missouri, Eliza now shares her Costa Mesa home with Frances, a beagle mix, and Wilbur, a grey cat.

 

Katie Franklin, Organist and Children's Music Director, joined the MVUMC staff in 2004. She is an accomplished collaborative pianist and a sought-after piano teacher, and an accompanist at the Orange County High School of the Arts.

 

 

 

 

Cara Wilson, Sanctuary Bells director, came to Mesa Verde in 2003. A talented singer as well as a skilled conductor, she studied music at Chapman University and spent two years as a conducting intern with the Orange County Women's Chorus.