BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

      STAFF

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• Nancy J. Herro

  Executive Director

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     BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 

• Kent Tess-Mattner

  PRESIDENT
  Attorney of Counsel to Schmidt, Rupke, Tess-Mattner & Fox, S.C., freelance trombonist

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• Jonathan Winkle    
  VICE PRESIDENT       
  Arts Administrator and Consultant, Musician
   

• Andrew Lato

  TREASURER
  Accountant, Kerber, Eck & Braeckel, LLP
   

• Don Weinberg
  SECRETARY
  Assistant Director of Music, Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church; Employee Band Director and Project Manager and Consultant, Northwestern Mutual, retired
   

• Jane Borden

  Nationally and locally lauded elementary educator specializing in arts integration, retired from Milwaukee Public Schools; founder, Arts and Science Literacy Camp; adjunct faculty, Cardinal Stritch University, Mount Mary College and Alverno College; instructional coach, Arts@Large 

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• Carl Brown
  CEO, Fresh Coast Jazz Festival; Retired CEO, Red Brown Kle’ 
  Marketing and Communications 

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• Morgan Dixon

  President, MacDowell Montessori School PTO
   

• Donna Dudenhoefer
  Retired Milwaukee Public Schools Music Educator  (General K-8, Choral and Band)
   

• Kathy Grogan

  Retired early childhood and reading specialist teacher, Milwaukee Public Schools, Secretary, Woman’s Club of Wisconsin 
   

• Joe Hausch
  Owner, Hausch Design Agency; President/CEO/CCO, PHOTAVIA: The Visual Network
   

• Pete Lange   
  Director of Sales, Tim O'Brien Homes; former Band/Choir Director, Catholic Memorial High School; performing and recording artist, trumpet, vocals     
           

• Stephanie Lippert

  Freelance Professional Musician and Teacher
   

• Deborah Musante
  City of Brookfield, Director, Civic Chorus; Milwaukee Co. Zoological Society-Development; freelance musician
   

• Tina Nogrady

  Registered Nurse, Aurora Health Care
   

• Michael Poytinger

  Retired K-12 Music Chair and Band Director, Waukesha School District; member and Associate Conductor, City of Waukesha Parks & Recreation Band; WSMA Master Adjudicator

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• Fran Richman
  Retired Executive Director, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra

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• Veronica Thompson

      Retired Library Media Specialist/Middle Years Coordinator, International 

      Baccalaureate Organization

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CIVIC MUSIC MKE supports music education and provides performance

opportunities to young musicians in the Greater Milwaukee area.