Leadership
Artistic Leadership
Paul Watkins
Artistic Director
Staff
Development
Jocelyn Zelasko
Development Officer
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Gramm Drennen
Patron Engagement Associate
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Marketing
Bridget Favre
Director of Marketing
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Priya Mohan
Communications Manager
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Rob Hall
Multimedia Marketing Associate
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Lauren Cichocki
Marketing Associate
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Operations and Events
Chloe Tooson
Artistic Operations Manager
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Lane Warren
Artistic Operations Associate
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Community Engagement
Finance
Chairs
Virginia and Michael Geheb, Board Chairs
Virginia is a retired opera education teacher
Michael is Senior Consulting Director, IBM-Watson Health
Marguerite Munson Lentz
Retired Attorney, Bodman PLC
Janelle McCammon & Raymond Rosenfeld
Janelle is a retired development professional
Raymond is a Retired Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Kathleen Block
Volunteer
Nicole Braddock
Nicole is a Store Director at Tappers Diamonds & Fine Jewlery
Cathleen Corken
Retired Assistant U.S. Attorney
Frederick Morsches and Kareem George
Frederick is Chief Community Officer, Honigman LLP
Kareem is Founder and Principal, Culture Traveler LLC
Christine Goerke
Soprano
Robert D. Heuer
Partner at Guy Hurley, LLC
Michael Leib
Retired Attorney, Madden Hauser
Judith Greenstone Miller
Partner, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C.
Gail and Ira Mondry
Gail is a private and group yoga instructor
Ira is a Principal of MGroup
Bridget and Michael Morin
Bridget is a Special Education Consultant in the Macomb County Intermediate School District
Michael is President of Yaffe & Company
Sandra and Claude Reitelman
Sandra is an arts administrator and co-founder of Cabaret 313
Claude is a retired pediatric urologist
Randolph Schein
Investor
Franziska Schoenfeld
Retired dentist
Lauren Smith
Owner and Interior Designer, Your Space Refined
Jill and Steven Stone
Jill is an amateur pianist
Steven owns Stone Soap Company, Inc.
Everton Swearing and Arthur White
Everton is Director of Sales, Vitesco Technologies
Arthur is Director of External Affairs at Detroit Opera
Michael Turala
Account Executive, DXC Technology
Benson Woo
Private equity CFO and board director
Gwen and Evan Weiner
Gwen is a civic volunteer.
Evan is COO of Edw. C. Levy Co
Advisory Board
Rachel & Billy Ben Baumann
Dr. Baumann us a retired pathologist. Rachel is a retired musician.
Laurence Biehl
Mr. Biehl is a volunteer.
Aviva & Dean Friedman
The Friedman’s own Real Integrated, an advertising agency.
Patricia Galacz
Mrs. Galacz is a volunteer.
Maria & Ron Hewson
The Hewson’s are building contractors.
Maureen & Frank Jerneycic
Frank is a retired CFO. Maureen is a volunteer.
Nancy Olin
Nancy Olin is the retired owner of Olin Securities.
Stephanie and Richard Ranney
Stephanie is the owner of a web hosting/design company and Richard is a Senior Manager with Capgemini.
Carolyn Ross
Ms. Ross is a volunteer.
Alan Schwartz
Mr. Schwartz is an attorney.
Lauren Smith
Melodie & Alan Solway
Dr. Solway is an ophthalmologist and Ms. Solway is an attorney.
Ex-Officio Members
Fr. Mark Brauer
Pastor, St. Hugo of the Hills.
Cantor Rachel Gottlieb Kalmowitz
Ms. Kalmowitz is the Cantor at Temple Beth El.
Rev. Msgr. Anthony Tocco
Rev. Msgr. Tocco is one of the founders of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and is the Pastor at St. Hugo of the Hills.
Rabbi Mark Miller
Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth El.
Maury Okun
Mr. Okun is the President of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, ArtOps, and Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings.
John Sittard
Director of Music, St. Hugo of the Hills
Trustee Advisory Committee
Cecilia Benner
Linda & Maurice Binkow
Cindy & Harold Daitch
Lillian Dean
Afa Dworkin
Adrienne & Herschel Fink
Jackie Paige & David Fischer
Barbara & Paul Goodman
Barbara Heller
Fay B. Herman
William Hulsker
Rayna Kogan
Nan Olin
Shannon Orme
Martha Pleiss
Kristin Ross
Marc Schwartz
Josette Silver
Isabel & Lawrence Smith
Kimberley & Victor Talia
James Tocco
Beverly & Barry Williams