Chester
S. Vance
- WWII Vet; toured as pianist with USO Shows
- Former pianist in the Oklahoma String Quartet (piano - string quartet)
- Concertmaster with various school and civic orchestras
- Former Chairman of the Keyboard and String Departments at Quigley Music Studios, at that time the largest private music studio in the Midwest
- Studied choral conducting with Clayton Krebiel and Robert Shaw
- Artist pupil with Jan Chiapusso (piano, Bach), E. Laurel Anderson (organ, theory), Raymond Cerf (violin), and T. Burns Westman (viola)



