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BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

Board Member Page

      STAFF

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     BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 

  • Jonathan Winkle    

      PRESIDENT       
      Arts Administrator and Consultant; freelance musician
 

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

  • Brandon Viliunas

    TREASURER
    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Controller
     

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

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

  • ​Rosalie Avery
    Milwaukee Public Schools & Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, ​Music Educator; freelance musician
     

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

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  • ​Morgan Dixon

​     MacDowell Montessori School, PTO President

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

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

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

  • Stephanie Lippert

    Freelance Musician; Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Music Educator
     

  • Michael Poytinger

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

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  • 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
     

  • Monica Thompson
    Accounting Professional 

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  • 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, Employee Band Director

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CIVIC MUSIC MKE supports music education and provides performance

opportunities to young musicians in the Greater Milwaukee area.