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Detroit School of Arts First Community Church
Concert Choir Marble Cliff Singers

The Detroit School of Arts Concert Choir is the The Marble Cliff Singers was formed in the fall of
premier vocal ensemble of the Detroit School of Arts, 2021 and is one of three adult-aged ensembles com-
a nationally recognized fine and performing arts high prising singers from our two choirs who sing for weekly
school in Midtown Detroit. Under the direction of Ju- worship services at First Community Church in Colum-
lian Goods, the choir has earned consistent superior bus, Ohio. The singers range in age from twenty-one to
ratings at MSVMA festivals and received top honors seventy, with varying levels of music experiences. The
at the 2025 WorldStrides Heritage Festival in NYC, choir performs repertoire that is musically challenging
including Best Concert Choir and the Choral Sweep- and in which the message is one of inclusion and ac-
stakes Award. They have performed with the Detroit ceptance. They sing for special projects throughout the
and Lansing Symphony Orchestras and the University church year, provide music for the annual Good Friday
of Michigan Men’s Glee Club (2022, 2024). Featured worship service, and perform on the annual Carols for
appearances include the Kennedy Center, Michigan Christmas concert.
Youth Arts Festival, and Abyssinian Baptist Church.
C. Andrew Blosser, DMA, is an assistant
Julian J. Goods is codirector of choirs at teaching professor at The Ohio State
the Detroit School of Arts and artistic University, where he also serves as the
director of Rackham Choir. At DSA his area head of the voice department. An
ensembles have earned consistent supe- active performer, he has presented mas-
rior I ratings at MSVMA festivals, per- ter classes and recitals throughout the United States
formed with the Detroit and Lansing Symphony Or- and internationally. Blosser served as cantor for ser-
chestras, and won top honors at the 2025 WorldStrides vices at the Berlin Cathedral and as soloist for Mozart’s
Heritage Festival. A University of Michigan graduate Missa Longa at the Salzburg Cathedral. Highlights as
(BM, MM), he teaches at Lutheran Summer Music a featured soloist include Vaughan Williams’s On Wen-
and serves as organist at Hartford Memorial Baptist lock Edge (Carpe Diem String Quartet), Handel’s Mes-
Church. Goods has conducted Messiah and led the Illi- siah (Columbus Symphony Orchestra), and Bach’s St.
nois ACDA Join Voices Festival. His performance cred- Matthew Passion (Bach Society of Dayton). Blosser has
its include St. John Passion, Faure’s Requiem, and Porgy and also served as the director of music at First Community
Bess. He is a recipient of the MLK Spirit Award and Church in Columbus, Ohio, since 2019.
the Earl V. Moore Award.

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