Gretchen Collins serves as Co -Director of Music Ministry at South Congregational Church in Hartford. She studied conducting with and sang under the direction of Marguerite Brooks at Yale University. For five years she worked at Salisbury School as Director of Music. Gretchen was a charter member of the critically acclaimed a cappella group, the Woodland Scholars, directed by Larry Allen and has sung with CONCORA, directed by Richard Coffey. She also enjoyed a long association with Gaudeamus, directed by Paul Halley, of which Gretchen has served as the Assistant Conductor. Gretchen and her husband Floyd Higgins, a tenor with Voce, reside in West Hartford with their son David.