Artistic Staff, Administration & Board Members

Artistic Staff

Music Makers Staff

Administrative Staff

2024-2025 Board of Directors

Officers

Mary Gerbig, President

Bruce Matthews, Immediate Past President

Javier Garay, Vice-President

Marie Justice, Vice- President

Karen Renee KritschVice-President

Nate Boebel, Treasurer

Kathy Schell, Secretary

 

Directors

Kaiping Chen

Valerie Chesnik

Tim Christian

Steven Ewer

Amanda Gausewitz

Scott Knapp

Didier Mandelbrot 

Charles McLimans

Barbara Merz

Nick Mischler

Cyrena Pondrom

Bonnie Sommers-Olson

John Walker

Ron Zerofsky

 

Life Trustees

Michael George

Shirley Inhorn

Stanley Inhorn

Andrée Valley

Coe Williams

Richard W. Wolf

Music Director – Emeritus

James Smith

 

WYSO Ex-Officio

Lisa Kjentvet – Director of Education and Community Engagement, Madison Symphony Orchestra

Chris Gleason – Arts and Creativity Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Designate – Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra

Diana Popowycz – Director, Suzuki Strings of Madison

Dan Cavanagh – Director, UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music 

 

Advisors

Christine Barden

Sue Collins

Sally Davis

Randall Dimond

Renée Farley

Marc Fink

Al Fish

Christopher Frautschi

Graham Fuguitt

Dick Hammerstrom

Beth Larson

Deepika Rajesh

Lynn Stathas

Charlotte Woods

Richard Zellner

Mona Muldowney

WYSO Foundation

The WYSO Foundation is a separate 501C3, established in 1999 for the purpose of accepting and managing gifts, bequests of property and the income realized for the sole benefit of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras.

2024-2025 Officers

Graham Fuguitt, President

Bridget Fraser, Secretary

2024-2025 Advisors and Trustees

Carla Alvarado, Trustee

Rich Arnesen, Trustee

Angela Batterman, Trustee

Nate Boebel, WYSO Treasurer

Susan Collins, Trustee

Jeff Femrite, Trustee

Linda Leikness, Trustee

Mary Gerbig, WYSO Board President

Diane Mayland, Trustee

Christopher Rich, Trustee

Please contact Bridget Fraser, WYSO Executive Director and Secretary of the WYSO Foundation Board of Trustees, for more information.