Artistic Staff

Shaun Gibbons (he/him/his) is an educator, conductor, and tenor originally from Sayville, New York. Shaun received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Delaware and recently completed his Master’s in Choral Conducting from Georgia State University. At Georgia State, Shaun served as assistant conductor to a variety of choirs, including GSU’s Repertory Singers, Tenor Bass Choir, and Choral Union. Outside of his curricular conducting, Shaun worked with the choirs from Holy Trinity Parish in Decatur, GA. In addition to his conducting, Shaun has experience singing in various solo and ensemble settings, including art songs, opera, oratorio, musical theatre, popular music, and many educational and professional choral settings. Shaun frequently performs with the Delaware Choral Scholars on their international tours to destinations such as Europe and Oceania. In the fall of 2026, Shaun will begin as High School Choral Director at Odessa High School in Delaware. In his free time, Shaun enjoys drinking cortados at local coffee shops, playing video games, hanging out with friends, and seeking new experiences around the globe.

MCC is delighted to announce that Christopher Ponce will be joining us this September as our Collaborative Pianist.

Christopher Ponce enjoys providing music for churches, musical theater, weddings, parties and special events – wherever music is needed. He started at the age of 10 in Florida with private lessons and progressed quickly to playing in church services and accompanying various singing groups, gospel quartets and school choirs/ensembles by the age of 12. After lending his musical talents and accompanying skills in the Central Florida area for 30 years, he relocated to his current location in the MD/DE area where he has served for the past 25 years.

Christopher has been with God’s Power and Light Co. since 2015 playing for musical productions such as “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “Four Tickets to Christmas”, “The First Noel”, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”, “Bah Humbug!”, “The Little Princess”, “Narnia, the Musical”, “Elf, the Musical”, “Oliver”, “Camelot”, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, “The Christmas Story”, etc. In addition, he has provided musical support to various theaters in the way of auditioning singers for productions such as “The Lightning Thief”, “The Full Monty”, “Hairspray” and “The Trail to Oregon” for the Wilmington Drama League. “Anastasia” for the Milburne Stone Theater. “Meet Me in St. Louis” for Mercer County Community College. Musical director for “The Wiz” at the Kuumba Academy. Pianist for “Matilda, Jr.” at St. Mary Magdeline Catholic School.

Aside from his musical credits, Christopher received his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. Through the years he has held positions as Agricultural Microbiological Researcher at the University of Florida and Senior Laboratory Microbiologist at Sherwood Medical in DeLand Florida and Terumo Medical Corporation in Elkton MD. Now upon retirement he will be devoting his full-time efforts to musical endeavors.