Board of Directors

Nicole de Naray, Co-President

Nicole has lived in Colorado Springs since 1986. Her professional life was spent in various forms of financial management, inclusive of banking, government, small business, and non-proﬁt accounting. Since her retirement from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic in 2010, she has served on various Boards—Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, Home Front Military Network Advisory Board, her HOA, and as a Mt. Carmel Community Ambassador. She studied piano as a “military brat” in Germany & France and continues to play. Her husband of 45 years, Andy, passed in 2020. She feels blessed to have her son, Andrew, and family nearby.

Kim Gunderson, Co-President

Kim has served the community in Colorado Springs for over 30 years, most recently with Tiemens Private Wealth Management Group. Formerly in the senior services industry, Kim has served as a volunteer and board member with several organizations, including the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Guild and the Community Development Committee at the UCCS Center on Aging. Kim currently splits her time between Colorado Springs and Summit County.

Dr. Susan Rae Jensen, Past President

Dr. Jensen is a pioneering interventional cardiologist here in Colorado Springs, the first woman in that specialty in Colorado. She has been a longtime advocate for women's heart health & past featured American Heart Assoc. speaker about risk factor management. Named a Top Doc in Colorado Springs, she is also a classically trained soprano and Metropolitan Opera audition finalist who has performed as soloist or featured soloist in over 100 concerts in our community and region.

A five-year President of the Pikes Peak Opera League, she now sits on the Board of Directors for Opera Colorado. Also, she currently sits on the CS Philharmonic Guild Board as Vice President & Program Chair. Susan has received awards of recognition & appreciation from Santa Fe Opera, PPOL, OTR, Colorado Opera Festival, and the Colorado Springs Symphony & Guild and she's a lifetime award member of PPOL. She is a devoted and unwavering supporter of the arts in Colorado Springs and our region, especially for scholarships and artist apprentice programs.

Lynne Lange, Secretary
Lynne has been a resident since 2020 and was delighted to find Colorado Springs such a rich music and arts environment. Her management career in the public sector, followed by sales to the public sector, left little time to support live music but she’s making up for lost time by attending as many events as possible, often with her 2 grandchildren. “When I discovered PPOL I found a cooperative group that welcomes everyone to share their love and support of the vocal arts, plus provides assistance and opportunities to the next generation of performers and audiences – all for the benefit of the community at large.” Lynne hopes her energy will help PPOL continue to increase access to a wide range of opera and vocal arts lovers and even more importantly, to those who don’t yet know they are.

Sol Chavez, Treasurer

Solomon is retired from his consulting engineering business, CTA Engineering Corporation (est. 1979). He has served on the boards of numerous technical and civil organizations including the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, Colorado Springs Planning Commission, Colorado Springs Civic Theatre, the Pikes Peak Flyfishers, the Star Bar Players, and the Millibo Art Theatre. As an avocation, Sol has worked in numerous theater productions as a performer and in many technical capacities for over 60 years. Filmmaking, with his wife, Eve Tilley, is his current passion.

Eve Tilley-Chavez, Director

Eve, whose parents were visual artists, grew up in the Colorado Springs arts scene, hanging out with painters, writers, and musicians. A student of J. J. Baird, she was in the chorus of several Colorado Springs Opera productions meeting several friends who also continue to support the vocal arts & PPOL. She has a BA in English and a Masters of Arts in Teaching, both from Colorado College. Eve was President and general factotum of The Star Bar Players in the 1980’s and the Pikes Peak Arts Council from 1996-2009. She is a “terrible singer,” but enjoys acting and directing in the theater, making pop-up cards, and paints a little, and loves attending various arts performances and cooking with her husband, Sol Chavez.

Susan Stiff

Susan Stiff is honored to serve on the Pikes Peak Opera League board, returning to the opera world she first connected with while working at The Broadmoor in the late 1980s. After moving to Denver, she became a longtime volunteer with Central City Opera—now more than 35 years—and a regular supporter of Opera Colorado. She looks forward to contributing to PPOL’s 2026 activities.

Susan’s professional background includes leadership roles in the hospitality and arts sectors, with positions at Westin Hotels & Resorts/Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the JW

Marriott Denver Cherry Creek, The Broadmoor, Club Corporation of America, Colorado Ballet, Tulsa Opera, and Garden of the Gods Resort & Club.

She has also been an active volunteer with organizations such as the Denver Center Alliance, Castle Pines Garden Club, Junior League of Denver, Lone Tree Arts Center, Cancer League of Colorado, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. A graduate of Kansas State University, she is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority.

Robyn Hamilton

Robyn has been a member of the PPOL for the past 7 years. She served on the PPOL Board previously. As far as opera is concerned, Robyn is more of a dilettante than connoisseur, but she has enjoyed attending the wonderful programs and events the PPOL has to offer.

In her previous life, Robyn practiced civil trial law in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied piano and voice growing up and sang in her church choir for a number of years. Robyn and her husband, Grant Langdon, recently wound up their business Reunion Homes and have spent the past few years enjoying retirement and travel.

Robyn has served on various boards and fundraising committees in the past. She served on the board of the Colorado Spring Philharmonic Guild for 4 years and is past president and board member of the Cheyenne Mountain Newcomers Club. Robyn is very much looking forward to re-joining the PPOL Board.