BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

      STAFF

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• Nancy J. Herro

  Executive Director

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     BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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• Pete Lange   
  PRESIDENT 
  Tim O'Brien Homes, Director of Homebuilding Services; Catholic Memorial High School, former Band/Choir Director; performing and recording artist  
   

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

• Brandon Viliunas

  TREASURER
  Maynard Steel Casting Company, Controller
   

• Deborah Musante
  SECRETARY
  Milwaukee County Zoological Society-Development; freelance musician
   

• Victoria Benson Hora
  Cedarburg School District, Retired Music Educator; freelance musician
   

• Jillian Bruss
  Singer soloist and ensemble performer, former voice teacher, middle school, high school and university level
   

• ​Brett Dawsey
  Baird, Vice President
   

• ​Morgan Dixon

​      MacDowell Montessori School, PTO President​

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• ​Donna Dudenhoefer
  Milwaukee Public Schools, Retired Music Educator (Gnrl K-8, Choral & Band)
   

• ​Scott Emmons
  Dean Emeritus, Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee; freelance musician
   

• Rob Engl
  Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin, Executive Director and Conductor; Youth Music of the World, Consultant; Fresh Coast Jazz Festival, Education Chair
   

• Rebecca Furdek
  Husch Blackwell LLP, Senior Associate
           

• Michelle Klotz
  Director of Music and Liturgy, St. Sebastian’s Church
   

• Stephanie Lippert

  Freelance Musician; Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Music Educator
   

• Fran Richman
  Richman Nonprofit Strategies, Consultant; Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Retired Executive Director
   

• Nicki Roman
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Asst. Professor of Saxophone; North American Saxophone Alliance, Board member; Splinter Reeds and Fuego Quartet, Saxophonist
   

• Kent Tess-Mattner
  Attorney of Counsel to Schmidt, Rupke, Tess-Mattner & Fox, S.C.; freelance musician
   

• Monica M. Thompson
  Community focused realtor in SE Wisconsin; member, GMAR Youth Foundation 
   

• Veronica Thompson

     Milwaukee Public Schools, Retired Library Media Specialist/Middle Years 
     Coordinator, International Baccalaureate Organization
 

• Don Weinberg

      Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Assistant Director of Music; Northwestern          Mutual, Retired Project Manager, Consultant, and Employee Band Director

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