Children & Youth

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Chelel is a versatile artist equally at home in solo, ensemble, and operatic repertoire. She has served as a Choral Fellow at Old South since 2018, and recent performance credits include work with Odyssey Opera, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), and Nightingale Vocal Ensemble. In the 2024-2025 academic year she served as an artist in residence at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music, collaborating with student composers and singers to record and perform new vocal works.

Rory was baptized at Old South Church in 2007 and has served as a volunteer in a number of different capacities including Bible study leader, search committees, the Board of Ministers and deacons, church school, and at the front desk. For his day job Rory works in the accessibility industry as a business manager.

A native of China, pianist Yuexuan Wang (Joyce) began her musical training at age of five with
her mother, a singer and choral conductor with a passion for Chinese folk music.

Summer became the Director of Old South Preschool in 2021, after transitioning from her long-time role as a Green Room teacher, which she began in 2002. In many ways the school feels like home to her, and she strives to make sure it feels that way for her students as well. Prior to Old South, she taught at a preschool in Newton as well as at a school for children with autism in Southborough. It was summertime when she interviewed for a job at Old South, so the classrooms were empty when she visited, but something about the building and the space just felt right.