Administrative staff
Main office
music@music.wisc.edu
608.263.1900
Dan Cavanagh Director director@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1900
Anne Brutosky Department Administrator administrator@music.wisc.edu 608.263.4734
Martha Fischer Associate Director mafische@wisc.edu 608.263.1911
Wendy Johnson Assistant Director assistantdirector@music.wisc.edu 608.263.4018
Gary Barnes Accountant gary.barnes@wisc.edu 608.263.1901
Ben Bell Bern Music Operations Manager musicoperations@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1893
Dan Brice Instrument Technician dan.brice@wisc.edu 608.263.3096
Harry Browne Videographer htbrowne@wisc.edu
Lance Ketterer Recording Engineer ketterer@wisc.edu 608.263.1888
Baoli Liu Piano Technician baoliliu@wisc.edu 608.263.1887
Erin McInerney Graphic Designer emcinerney2@wisc.edu
Eliza Morris Community Music Lessons Coordinator cml@music.wisc.edu
Kerry O’Neill Shipping & Mail Associate koneill5@wisc.edu 608.263.2038
Dann Petersen Music Engagement & Outreach Coordinator meo@music.wisc.edu 608.890.1608
Cat Richmond Music Ensemble Librarian crichmond3@wisc.edu
Greg Silver Production Manager gcsilver@wisc.edu
Mark Ultsch Piano Repair & Tuning Specialist ultsch@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1887
Andrew Vaudt Payroll & Benefits Specialist vaudt@wisc.edu
Diana Wheeler Student Services and Curriculum Manager curriculum@music.wisc.edu
Vacant Financial Specialist
Admissions & Advising
James Doing Graduate Admissions Coordinator gradadmissions@music.wisc.edu 608.263.3220
Marina Drake Graduate Student Coordinator msdrake@wisc.edu 608.263.5016
Jared Jellison Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator admissions@music.wisc.edu 608.263.5986
Jessica Johnson Director of Graduate Studies dgs@music.wisc.edu 608.262.9295
Todd Reck Undergraduate Advisor ugradadvisor@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1918
Communications/Media contact
Eric Murtaugh Communications Manager ebmurtaugh@wisc.edu 608.263.5615
Ensemble Coordinators
Ben Dombkowski Ensemble Coordinator ensembles@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1770
Olivia Nelson Ensemble Coordinator ensembles@music.wisc.edu 608.263.1770

Tom Curry
A native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Tom Curry has served on the Mead Witter School of Music faculty since 2014. He is currently the tubist in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet.

Daniel Grabois
Daniel Grabois plays with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble-in-residence, and teaches a studio of undergraduate and graduate students.

Mark Hetzler
Mark Hetzler began playing his father’s trombone at the age of twelve. He went on to receive a B.M. from Boston University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Jean Laurenz
Jean Laurenz is an eclectic musician who loves variety and collaboration. As a performer, Jean has enjoyed appearances with Adele, The Hanson Brothers, The Boston Pops, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Dan Cavanagh
Dan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist who has garnered numerous awards in both areas.

Laura Schwendinger
The first composer to win the Berlin Prize, Laura Schwendinger’s music has been championed by artists Dawn Upshaw, Matt Haimovitz, Miranda Cuckson, and many more.

Les Thimmig
Les Thimmig’s career has included performances with the orchestras of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, Oliver Nelson, and Duke Ellington. His compositions have been performed in North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

Richard Bjella
Richard Bjella has distinguished himself as a conductor, clinician, choral pedagogue, and choral arranger around the world. In 2014 Bjella was appointed Artistic Director of the San Antonio Chamber Choir.

Mariana Farah
Born in Brazil, Mariana Farah received her Bachelor of Music from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and her DMA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Alexander Gonzalez
Alexander Gonzalez conducts the Tuesday Night University Band, assists the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, directs the Men’s Hockey Band, and teaches courses in conducting.

Kevin Kriegel
Kevin has spent over 30 years as a performer, conductor, and music educator. He most recently was a choral lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he conducted the advanced treble ensemble Bella Voce and taught conducting and piano for music education majors.

Corey Pompey
Corey Pompey holds the bachelor of science degree in music education and the master of arts degree in music education from The University of Alabama. He earned his doctor of musical arts degree in wind conducting at The University of Texas.

Oriol Sans
Oriol Sans directs the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, conducts opera productions and teaches graduate students in conducting.

Scott Teeple
Scott Teeple oversees the UW–Madison Band program, conducts the wind ensemble, and teaches graduate conducting.

Dan Cavanagh
Dan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist who has garnered numerous awards in both areas. As a composer he has written or arranged for Latin Grammy-winning AfroBop Alliance, the legendary Patti LaBelle, and a wide range of classical and jazz performers.

Peter Dominguez
Peter Dominguez grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin participating in the Music for Youth Orchestras, and performing with his father, pianist and singer Frank DeMiles.

Matthew Endres
Born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, Matthew Endres is the adjunct professor of drum set and jazz history at the Mead Witter School of Music. In addition, he adjudicates music festivals and competitions extensively throughout the United States.

Mark Hetzler
Mark Hetzler began playing his father’s trombone at the age of twelve. He went on to receive a B.M. from Boston University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Chad McCullough
Chad McCullough frequently records and tours internationally. Based in Chicago, he is an active composer, performer, and educator.

Louka Patenaude
Louka Patenaude, a veteran of the Madison music scene, is a performing guitarist, teacher, recording studio artist, songwriter and composer. As a professional teacher, his career goes back almost 20 years.

Les Thimmig
Les Thimmig’s career has included performances with the orchestras of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, Oliver Nelson, and Duke Ellington. His compositions have been performed in North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

Johannes Wallmann
Johannes Wallmann is a veteran of the New York and San Francisco Bay Area jazz scenes, and he has performed extensively as a bandleader and as a sideman in local, national, and international venues.

Martha Fischer
Martha Fischer is professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, where she heads the collaborative piano program.

Jessica Johnson
Jessica Johnson serves on the piano faculty as Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy and Director of Graduate Studies.

Christopher Taylor
Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times), Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests.

Johannes Wallmann
Johannes Wallmann is a pianist and composer, recording artist on Fresh Sound New Talent Records and Shifting Paradigm Records, and Director of Jazz Studies at the School of Music.

Eric Tran
Eric Tran (D.M.A.) is a pianist-composer and teacher. He graduated with honors from Stanford University and received his MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Amy Lewis
Dr. Amy Lewis is the daughter of Jayne McShann Lewis and Bennie Lewis and is the granddaughter of Frances McShann Shelton and jazz pianist Jay McShann.

Jesse Rathgeber
Jesse Rathgeber, Ph.D., has held tenure track positions at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Walter Rich
Dr. Walter Rich holds an undergraduate degree in music education from UW-Madison and a master’s degree in music performance from Northwestern University, where he studied with Mr. Arnold Jacobs, legendary principal tuba player of the Chicago Symphony. He earned his PhD in curriculum and instruction at UW-Madison.

Michael Weinstein-Reiman
Michael Weinstein-Reiman is a historian of music theory. His work seeks to elucidate music theory’s role in the history of ideas over the longue durée.

Matt Ambrosio
Originally from New Rochelle, NY, Matt Ambrosio completed his PhD in Music Theory at UW–Madison, his MA in Music Theory from CUNY Queens College, his MA in Secondary Science Education at American University, and his BA in Music and Physics at the University of Rochester.

Chris Rottmayer
Chris Rottmayer is a jazz pianist, composer, and jazz vibraphonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. Chris has been a freelance jazz pianist since 1990.

Margaret Butler
Margaret Butler’s research focuses on European opera in the eighteenth century and American musical theater. She teaches courses on musical theater and opera, and is an affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Program.

Nadia Chana
Nadia Chana’s current research focuses on listening as a critical practice for cultivating deeply felt relationships with a more-than-human world.

Susan C. Cook
Susan C. Cook is a professor of musicology, and was formerly the academic associate dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School and director of the School of Music.

Gabrielle Cornish
Gabrielle Cornish’s research broadly considers music and everyday life in the Soviet Union. Her monograph-in-progress, Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity after Stalin, traces the intersections between music, technology, and the politics of socialist modernity during the Cold War.

John Walsh
As an ethnomusicologist, John Walsh is broadly interested in the relationships between music and cities. Specifically, his work explores the music scene as a flexible form of collective expressive culture that articulates relations between sociality, materiality, and aesthetics.

Anthony Di Sanza
Anthony Di Sanza, a recognized international performer and educator, has performed, presented master classes, and held residencies in North America, Europe and Asia.

Todd Hammes
Through his music – a fascinating, eclectic blend of classical, world and improvisational styles – Todd Hammes presents to the world his own unique inner vision of sound and music.

Tom Ross
A native of Wisconsin, Thomas Ross has spent his young career exploring many styles of percussion.

Suzanne Beia
Suzanne Beia is second violinist of the Pro Arte Quartet, artist in residence, and chamber music coach for the School of Music

Javier Calderon
When Javier Calderon played his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times called him “…a virtuoso with poetic sensibility.” Since then, many composers have been writing and dedicating guitar concertos and solo pieces to Calderon.

Sally Chisholm
Sally Chisholm, violist of the Pro Arte Quartet, and Professor of Viola, has had an extensive career in chamber music.

Peter Dominguez
Peter Dominguez grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin participating in the Music for Youth Orchestras, and performing with his father, pianist and singer Frank DeMiles.

Parry Karp
Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence, and the Robert and Linda Graebner Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program.

David Perry
Violinist David Perry enjoys an international career as chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. Mr. Perry has performed in Carnegie Hall, most of the major cultural centers of North and South America, Europe, and the Far East.

Eugene Purdue
Eugene Purdue was the founding first violinist of the Thouvenel String Quartet, a group that toured internationally performing in many of the leading concert halls of the United States and Europe.

James Waldo
Cellist James Waldo is a sought-after chamber musician and recitalist. A regular performer at Midsummer’s Music in Door County, WI, James has appeared in chamber music settings at such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully and Merkin Halls at Lincoln Center.

Johanna Wienholts
Johanna Wienholts is a harpist and educator known for her enthusiasm about the harp and all the versatility the instrument offers.

Dawn Dongeun Wohn
Praised as having "a joyful sense of freedom, and a pure, unencumbered tone" by BBC Music Magazine, violinist Dawn Dongeun Wohn has performed in concert halls across five continents including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

Sarah Brailey
GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey enjoys a versatile career that defies categorization. Praised by The New York Times for her “radiant, liquid tone,” and by Opera UK for “a sound of remarkable purity,” she is a prolific vocalist, cellist, recording artist, and educator.

Mimmi Fulmer
American soprano Mimmi Fulmer performs repertoire ranging from early music to premieres of works written for her. Her distinguished career in new music includes premieres of nine roles in eight operas.

Thomas Kasdorf

David Ronis
David Ronis, the Karen K. Bishop Director of University Opera, has maintained an active schedule in a multi-faceted career. Previously, he taught at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College/CUNY, Hofstra University, and Wagner College.

Julia Rottmayer
Soprano Julia Rottmayer, faculty associate of voice and opera, is active in the stage, concert, and teaching arenas. Along with her interpretation of standard repertoire, Dr. Rottmayer is an avid performer and champion of contemporary and early music.

Paul Rowe
Baritone Paul Rowe has maintained a wide ranging performing career throughout the United States for the past 20 years. He has performed with many of the leading American musical organizations including the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa at Symphony Hall in Boston and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Lindsay Flowers
Lindsay Flowers is a member of the Wingra Wind Quintet and guides student-generated community engagement projects. Her background in athletics distinguishes her pedagogical approach in her emphasis on performance visualization, disciplined commitment, and supportive teamwork.

Matthew Koester
Celebrated for his “commitment to stellar sound and control” by Quebec’s La Tribune and “gorgeous sonority” by the South Florida Classical Review, saxophonist Matthew Koester enjoys a vibrant career as an educator, chamber musician, and soloist across North America.

Alicia Lee
Before her appointment at the School of Music, Alicia Lee was a resident of New York City for over a decade where she performed and toured regularly with a variety of groups including The Knights, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, and NOVUS NY.

Conor Nelson
Praised for his “long-breathed phrases and luscious tone” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Canadian flutist Conor Nelson is established as a leading flutist and pedagogue of his generation.

Les Thimmig
Les Thimmig’s numerous appearances as soloist include those with Parnassus, New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Boston Musica Viva, Dayton Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Orquesta Nacional de Venezuela, and New York Philharmonic.c.

Marc Vallon
In addition to his teaching responsibilities as Professor of Music, Bassoon, Marc Vallon is bassoonist for the Wingra Wind Quintet in residence at the School of Music.