OBF Staff

Executive

• John Evans, Executive Director and President
  (541) 346-5666

Artistic Production

• Michael Anderson, Director of Artistic Administration
  (541) 346-1354 | mander@uoregon.edu
• Mia Hall Savage, Director, Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy
  (541) 346-1320 | sfyca@uoregon.edu
• Dave Goudy, Artistic Administration & Education
  (541) 346-5675 | dgoudy@uoregon.edu

Marketing and Development

• George Evano, Director of Communications
  (541) 346-5667 | gevano@uoregon.edu
• Jane Scheidecker, Director of Development
  (541) 346-0805 | janes@uoregon.edu
• Patrick Hosfield, Director of Corporate & Donor Relations
  (541) 346-1324 | hosfield@uoregon.edu
• Kirsten Diechmann, Grant Writer
  (541) 346-1358 | kirstenj@uoregon.edu
• Nabiha Doolittle, Development Assistant
  (541) 346-1319 | nabiha@uoregon.edu

Administration

• Sandy Cummings, Business Accountant
  (541) 346-1317 | sandyc@uoregon.edu
• Elin England, Youth Programs Administrator & Executive Assistant
  (541) 346-1320 | eengland@uoregon.edu
• Penny Hoge, Artistic Operations Administrator
  (541) 346-1316 | phoge@uoregon.edu

Bios

Michael Anderson received the Master of Music degree from the University of Oregon and pursued doctoral studies at the at the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California. He has worked as an administrator for the Eugene Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Eugene Opera, and the Oregon Festival of American Music. He has performed as Principal Clarinet for the Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theater, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. His formal studies included work with clarinetist David Shifrin, composers Tomas Svoboda and Harold Owen, and performance practice scholar Marc Vanscheeuwijck.

Sandy Cummings is a native of Eugene and a graduate of Lane Community College. She began in the accounting field in 1991 and has worked at the Festival since 1998. In her free time, she enjoys wake-boarding, traveling, going to the beach, and caring for her silver Audi TT.

Kirsten Diechmann has been writing grants part-time at the Festival since 2000, after retiring from the City of Eugene as a Visual Arts Coordinator. During the Festival, her job changes and she works at the Beall Hall Box Office and makes sure that Maestro Rilling has enough coffee to propel him through rehearsals and classes.

Nabiha Doolittle grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and has a Bachelors Degree in business. She has family and friends all over the world and has enjoyed her travels in her earlier years, and settling in Oregon in the end. She enjoys traveling and catching up with family and friends.

Elin England was born in New Hampshire and graduated from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Art History. She and her husband have put down deep roots in their organic farm in Pleasant Hill, specializing in the cultivation of garlic, chickens, and children. When not orchestrating the arrival and departure of each year's crop of Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy participants, or keeping the Executive Director in order, she can be found quietly contemplating her newest hooked rug or happily digging potatoes in the garden. Elin has also written a cookbook on the subject of local, seasonal eating, entitled Eating Close to Home: A Guide to Local, Seasonal Sustenance.

George Evano grew up in New Jersey, went to college in West Virginia, and after jobs in radio and newspaper went to work in the arts in San Francisco. He joined the Oregon Bach Festival in late 1992 and still has the ticket stub from his first OBF concert, Haydn's The Seasons. Festival communications materials that George has produced have received Summit, Telly, and International Graphics Competition awards, and he has presented for numerous seminars and classes including the Arts Presenters National Conference in New York. Away from the office he enjoys soccer, saxophone, and silliness with his wife and two teenage sons.

Dave Goudy comes to OBF after a decade of arts management in Texas, most recently, with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. He has played cello for 30 years with a music degree from the University of Miami in Florida. In Texas, he conducted a community orchestra, taught privately, and served as a clinician for school orchestra programs. Away from the OBF, he plays recorder and avidly follows sports.

Patrick Hosfield came to Oregon from the east coast because he was assured it is always sunny and dry in the Willamette Valley. He has a AB in English from Harvard and a Master of Music in conducting from Rutgers, and has performed as a singer and conductor throughout the New York and Boston areas. He has previously worked in administrative positions at Carnegie Hall, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the American Repertory Theatre; he has also been an English tutor, an arcade-game repairman, a published travel writer, and lots of other strange jobs. He enjoys cooking, hiking, backpacking, and sleeping in. He is originally from New Jersey.

Mia Hall Savage has more than 20 years of experience in the choral education field. Since she founded the Pacific Youth Choir four years ago, the organization has grown to 200 singers in five different choirs, and has collaborated with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Symphonic Choir, Portland Chamber Orchestra, and Chanticleer. Mia Hall Savage holds masters and bachelors degrees from the University of Oregon and currently serves on the UO School of Music and Dance Advancement Committee. She sang and studied under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, Festival artistic director, at the Musik Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany.

Penny Campbell Hoge is a native Texan and University of Oregon graduate with a degree in Religious Studies. She has enjoyed a long-term association with the local performing arts community through jobs at the Hult Center and The Shedd, and as a member of the Lord Leebrick Theatre Board of Directors. Her non-Bach time is spent playing ukulele, cheering for the Red Sox, and exploring the great outdoors with her husband Chris and their border collies.

Jane Scheidecker grew up in Montana; was the first of 4 female laborers in an oil refinery with 400 guys; opened a language academy in the Canary Islands; and has an international MBA, as well as a couple of degrees in romance languages. She spent years working and teaching languages, business, and economic development in the U.S. and internationally. Her first fundraising experience was trick-or-treating for UNICEF. She became director of development at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2003 and is delighted to staff the Festival's endowment fundraising initiative. You might see husband Duane in the garden while Jane paddles by in a very old canoe.