Our Musicians

Rob oversees the music program at Saint Cecilia and also serves on the faculty at Brandeis University as associate professor of the practice of choral music. At Brandeis University Rob oversees the vocal program, conducts the Brandeis choral ensembles, teaches conducting and choral methods, and serves as the performance track adviser for vocalists. Rob has served on the faculties of Dartmouth College, Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, and Mount St. Mary’s College. He holds degrees in conducting, piano, and voice from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Temple University, and the University of Southern California. Additionally, he served as director of music for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. An active commissioner of new music, Rob has given several world premieres of works for both orchestral and choral forces. He served as counsel to the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and is the past president of the Eastern Region of the American Choral Directors Association.

Tyler is a Boston-based vocalist, voice teacher, and professor who specializes in the teaching and singing of diverse and versatile repertoire. He holds a Master of Music from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Vocal Pedagogy as well as a Bachelor of Music from Westminster Choir College in Music Education. Tyler has held numerous positions as soloist/cantor, chorister, music director, and teacher at various churches and schools in the greater Boston and Philadelphia areas. Tyler has been a featured soloist in many major works and operas including Bruckner’s Requiem and Te Deum, Cesar Frank’s Messe à Troi Voix, Basillio in NEMPAC Opera Project’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Romboidal in Boston Conservatory’s L’île de Tulipan. He is extremely honored to be a part of the musical program at Saint Cecilia.

Daniel, a native of Chicago, is a Roman Catholic convert who went through the RCIA program at Boston’s Paulist Center in 1983. Daniel received an undergraduate degree from Brown University and graduate degrees in organ from Syracuse University and in harpsichord from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. He has given organ recitals throughout the United States, including local venues like the Church of the Advent, and multiple appearances at Trinity Church, Copley Square, and the Methuen Memorial Music Hall. In addition to holding organist positions in different parishes in the Archdiocese, he spent twenty years on the faculty at Stonehill College. He also taught at the Longy School of Music and Northeastern University and has been a piano accompanist for ballet and modern dance classes at Emerson College and the Walnut Hill School. Now semi-retired, he continues as one of the pianists at the Symphony Café at Symphony Hall, Boston. Daniel was interim organist at Saint Cecilia in 2019 and became a parishioner at that time. He is delighted to return!

Kayleigh is a Boston-based mezzo-soprano vocalist and voice/piano teacher. She received her Masters in Vocal Performance with a concentration in opera at New England Conservatory, where she studied with Jane Eaglen. She received her Vocal Music Education and Music Performance majors from Moravian College, where she studied with Megan Durham and Suzanne Kompass.

In 2019, her 115-page academic article on the operas of Puccini was granted honors and is currently displayed in Reeves Library. In 2021, she performed the role of Lena in Svadba, a Serbian, a capella opera by Ana Sokolović. Ms. Bennett was invited to sing the role of Mrs. Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai with the Up North Vocal Institute for their 2019 season. She has performed as the soprano concert soloist in Arvo Pärt’s Stabat Mater, Christopher Tin’s Calling All Dawns, Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, and Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla.

Rachel Klippel (she/her) joins the St. Cecilia choir as the Soprano Section Leader. After touring with the parish in Italy for Jubilee, Rachel joined the faculty in the Vocal Arts department specializing in Musical Theatre at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is on Voice Faculty at Walnut Hill, serves as the NATS Boston Student Auditions Co-Director as well as maintains a private voice studio. She completed her MFA in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy from Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2025.

Prior to moving to Boston, Rachel lived and worked in Chicago as an adjunct voice professor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Selected theatre performance credits include include: Ms. Barley in Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder (Porchlight), Clara in The Light in the Piazza (Theo Ubique), Joanna in Sunset Boulevard & Sweeney Todd (Drury Lane Oakbrook), Celeste I in Sunday in the Park with George & Aggie in The Game’s Afoot (Peninsula Players), and Rita/Young Julia in James Joyce’s The Dead (Court Theatre). Rachel lives in the Boston area with her husband and three feline fur babies.