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Lakeshore Chorale
Board of Directors
William
Born, President
Dick Fellenz, Vice President
Niki Einer, Secretary
Rick Hoffmann, Treasurer
Linda Adams
John Buteyn
Richard Fellenz
Eleanor Jung
Mary Klein
Bernie Markevitch
Wayne Wildman (ex officio)
Casandra Palmer (ex officio)
Heather Hammond (ex officio)
Penny Kindraka (ex officio)
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Lakeshore
Chorale Music Director/Conductor
Wayne Wildman
Versatile
is the word to describe Sheboygan-born maestro Wayne Wildman. His
musical collaborators range from Yefim Bronfman and Gary Karr to the
Canadian Brass and Dinah Shore. Educated at Lakeland College and the
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wildman is entering his twentieth
season as Music Director of the
Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra.
Wildman has been heard as harpsichord and/or piano soloist with the
Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Sheboygan Symphony, the Manitowoc
Symphony and the Green Bay Civic Symphony, and most recently the
Ocmulgee Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared with members of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra in recitals at Symphony Center and the Art Institute
of Chicago, served as accompanist for the Fourth International Henryk
Szeryng Violin Competition in Toluca, Mexico and performed on Wisconsin
Public Radio’s “Live from the Elvejhem” series. In the summer of 2008,
Wildman made his fourth appearance at the
Washington Island Music Festival,
where he was featured in works by Hummel and J.C. Bach.
An experienced theatrical composer, Wildman scores have been performed
in Nebraska, North Carolina and Florida as well as Wisconsin. Recent
projects include “Blue Harbor Dawn and Celebration,” an overture
commissioned by the Sheboygan Area Youth Symphony to celebrate
their
twenty-fifth anniversary and an untitled work for band currently being
written for the Sheboygan Area School District as part of its Artist in
Residence program.
Wildman also serves as Music Director of
First United Lutheran Church
in Sheboygan and as a music instructor at the University of Wisconsin
where he teaches music theory, aural skills, music appreciation, and
jazz history.
Lakeshore Chorale
Accompanist
Kathy Pedersen
Kathy
Pedersen is a Lawrence University Conservatory graduate with a Bachelor
of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Vocal Music Education.
A Manitowoc
native, Kathy’s accompanying career began when she accompanied her
elementary school chorus at the age of 11.
She has operated the
Pedersen Piano Studio out of her home for
over thirty years. Kathy maintained piano studios in
Monroe,
Wisconsin and Strasburg,
Ohio before moving to Sheboygan and opening her piano studio there
in 1992. She was a singing member
of Lakeshore Chorale for sixteen years, and also served as accompanist
of the Lakeshore Youth Chorale Lyric Choir for five years. This is
Kathy's second year accompanying Lakeshore Chorale.
Kathy is the organist at Zion Covenant Church
in Sheboygan,
where her husband Steve is the senior pastor.
The couple has three grown children. Youngest son Eric, who
was a member of Lakeshore Youth Chorale for five years, was married this
past August.
Kathy
enjoys scrapbooking, working on her genealogy, and camping in Door
County. She has a Shih Tzu named Kia who loves greeting her piano
students.
Lakeshore
Youth Chorale Conductor
Heather Hammond
Heather
Hammond received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Carthage College and
her Master of Music Education degree in choral conducting and literature
from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was employed for eight
years in the Cedar Grove-Belgium School District, where she had the
opportunity to work with grades five through twelve in both vocal and
general music.
Heather
has been seen on stage in the JMKAC’s production of Cinderella,
Broadway Baby Dinner Theater, featured in Spotlight Productions of West
Bend dinner theater, and in recital with Dr. Arthur Johnson.
Heather has a private voice studio in Sheboygan
Falls and is also a singing member of the Lakeshore Chorale.
Lakeshore Youth Chorale Accompanist
Drea Wagner
Drea Wagner is a 2009 graduate of Lakeland College
with a degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. She teaches at New Song
Piano Studio at her home in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where she has been
sharing her love of music with her students since 2004. Her piano
students have won many awards at local and state competitions, and
performed successfully in recitals. Drea is an active member of the
Michibago Music Teachers Association, a local organization in which she
serves as secretary. She has also interned with the Wisconsin Music
Teachers Association, and is a member of Music Teachers National
Association.
Drea is an accomplished performer, arranger, composer,
improviser, and church musician. While in high school she began studying
with Dr. Arthur Johnson, and has since won many competitions and awards,
including the WMTA Badger State Keyboard Competition, and the Lakeland
College 2009 Outstanding Student in Piano Performance and Pedagogy
award. In 2006, she collaborated on a Lakeland College project promoting
the music of Andras Viski in a concert at the Stefanie H. Weill Center
and on a recording, Elismeres. Drea is active in the local music
community, playing in area concerts and master classes, as well as
serving in the music ministry at Manitowoc Baptist Church.

LAKESHORE
CHORALE
P.O. Box 36, Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085
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Lakeshore Chorale
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