UWSP - Music Department

For Alumni and Friends

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Alumni Accomplishments

  • Gina Anderson (BM ' 01) - performs with the Beloit-Janesville Symphony and the Edgewood Chamber Orchestra
  • Jeffrey Bakken (BM ’ 07) - WI NATS winner 2005 & 2006, soloist/apprentice with professional opera companies in WI and FL
  • Elizabeth Barton (BA ' 00) - performs with the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra.
  • Diane Birr, Piano Faculty (BM ’77), Ithaca College, NY
  • Susan Breitner (BM ' 87) - Piano Preparatory Faculty, Wheaton College, Ill.
  • Gunnar Bruning (BM ' 99) - First Trumpet, United States Navy Band
  • Sarah Cain (BM ' 04) - toured in Germany with Helmut Rilling, summer 2006
  • Tim Crain (BM ' 92) - Music literature faculty, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
  • Daniel Ebbers (BM ' 87) - Assistant Professor of Music – Voice and Opera, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
  • Catharine Watkins Estes (BM ’ 91) - performs as oboist in the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Stephen Ferguson (BM ’ 07) - has performed in the horn section with the Las Vegas Music Festival and the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific.
  • Paul Gregg (BM ’ 97) - choral music education, received his MM in choral conducting from the University of Iowa and is currently the choir director at Luxemburg-Casco High School.
  • Sam Handley (BM ' 98) - Santa Fe Opera Apprentice, finishing his DMA in performance at University of Houston, TX
  • Chris Hankes has taken a position as head of percussion product development for Jupiter Instruments/KHS Manufacturing
  • Matthew Hellenbrand (BM ' 05) - winner of the 2006 Midwest Horn Workshop Natural Horn Competition. He has performed with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Quad Cities Symphony and the Cedar Rapids Symphony.
  • Allison Kokkeler (BM ' 05) - completing her master’s in vocal pedagogy at UNC – Greensboro
  • Wendy Krause (BM ' 03) - MM, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
  • Stephanie Krueger (BM ' 00) - Principal Horn with the Green Bay Civic Symphony
  • Brenda Luchsinger (BM ' 04) - was featured horn soloist with the Lakeshore Wind Ensemble. She has also won auditions with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, Macon Symphony Orchestra, Central Florida symphony Orchestra and recorded for Pepper Music
  • Marlin McKay (BM Jazz Studies ‘ 07) - Chosen to participate in prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., fellowship to study at University of Indiana
  • Dan Mitchell (BM Jazz Studies ' 06) - 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Competition (2nd place), winner of 2005 National Wind Ensemble Composition Competition
  • Andrew Naumann, (BM ' 92) - Owner/President of Schilke Music Products, Chicago, IL
  • Michael Wall (BM ' 06) - second prize in the 2006 Midwest Horn Workshop Natural Horn Competition.
  • Benjamin Peterson (BM ' 02) - First Trumpet US Air Force Band of MidAmerica
  • Wayne Salzmann (BM Jazz Studies ' 06) - Awarded UWSP Student Research grant to study with New York drummers Joey Barron, Bill Stewart and Billy Martin.
  • Justin Schwartz (BM ’07) – Principal Oboe in the 2006 National Wind Ensemble
  • David Story (BM ' 04) - Assistant Professor of Music – String Bass, UWSP, Stevens Point, WI
  • Desiree Wattelet (BM ’ 00) - completed her DMA in vocal performance at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Holly Wrensch (BM ' 93) - Professor of Music – voice, Concordia College, MN