Staff

Dr. Chris Wild is proud to serve the excellent music students of Indiana’s Wabash River Valley as Artistic Director of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony. Before moving to Indianapolis with his wife, Chris worked in Chicago and southwest Michigan, spending four years as Orchestra Director of the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra. While in Michiana, he also taught cellists at the University of Notre Dame and was cellist of the Euclid Quartet.

Many years prior, his musical studies began as a cellist in Vancouver, Canada. A dual citizen, he moved stateside to attend the University of Michigan, graduating with a BM and MM in cello performance and music education. Upon graduation, Chris moved to Chicago where he worked in parallel as Orchestra Director for the DeKalb school district and as cellist for Ensemble Dal Niente, and still performs with Dal Niente to this day. Eventually, he returned to school to complete a DMA in Orchestral Conducting at Northwestern University and has since relished his many adventures with pre-professional orchestras.

Carol Letcher has been a West Lafayette resident for over 20 years.​

Originally from Colorado, she received her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Colorado Boulder, Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and worked on a Doctor of Arts in Voice at the University of Northern Colorado.

She is currently a music teacher with the West Lafayette School Corporation and has taught previously in Colorado and Kansas, in addition to church music positions in Valparaiso, Indiana, California, Illinois and the Kansas City area.

Wesley Mui is an alumnus of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony having participated as a violinist and a violist for 6 years. After receiving a Music Education Degree from Indiana Wesleyan University, Wesley taught general music and orchestra at Sunnyside Intermediate School and currently teaches orchestra for grades 4 through 12 within West Lafayette Community School Corporation.