Mary Anne Sims
(Music Director/City Voices Executive Director)

Mary Anne Sims is the founder/director of City Voices, a non-profit offering free music lessons to disadvantaged students. She is an accomplished accompanist and continues to work as an adjudicator, consultant, and choral arranger, having written commissions for several schools and organizations including the World Food Prize and Bravo Greater Des Moines. She has teaching experience at every level, including 13 years at Des Moines Roosevelt High School. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Ohio State University, focusing on urban music education. Mary Anne is the current diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) chair for the Iowa Music Educators Association.