Colla Voce's music director, Steve Ng, draws from over 20 years of experience in making
voices sing. He has been involved with the gay choral movement since 1981. In 1985, he
co-founded Spruce Street Singers in Philadelphia. In 1990, the City Council of Philadelphia
passed a resolution recognizing the ensemble for its incomparable singing and for being the
only such ensemble to donate all of its proceeds back to the community. Steve joined the San
Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in 1990 and founded the select ensemble, Nota Bene, in 1992. He led
the ensemble for ten years, guiding it to new heights, including its first CD, Sing Me to Heaven.
He is extremely thrilled and excited to be working with Colla Voce making music
and supporting the community.

Doug McGrath was born to country-and-western parents. That he fell in love with
classical and choral music may lend argument to nature versus nurture, but that's a
story for a different time. Born in Colorado and growing up on a farm in western Kansas,
he was drawn to piano at an early age, but didn't start lessons until the ripe old age of
13. Since moving to California and adapting to color, he's accompanied the Silicon Valley
Gay Men's Chorus (SVGMC), the Rainbow Women's Chorus, and Opus Q. He appears on two recordings
with SVGMC, and in addition to choral accompanying, occasionally appears in the pit
band for musicals, and used to play vaudeville theater regularly. Software engineering
supports his other habits, and when not at the piano or playing with computers, he can be
found underwater with the Northern California Rainbow Divers. He also serves as webmaster
for Colla Voce.