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OBF StaffExecutive
Artistic Production
Marketing and Development
Administration
BiosMichael Anderson has worked as an administrator for festivals, opera, symphony orchestras, and baroque orchestra. He is Principal Clarinet with the Eugene Symphony, and the Oregon Ballet Theater orchestras. He has performed with Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Oregon Symphony, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and at the Oregon Bach, Sunriver, Cascade, Ernest Bloch, Oregon Coast, Oregon Festival of American Music, and Domaine Forget music festivals. Anderson studied music at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and the University of Southern California. 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 came to Eugene in 1980 to attend the graduate program in Public Administration at the University of Oregon after 17 years in California working for financial, marketing, and research companies. After 12 years with the City of Eugene's Public Art Program, she worked on her own managing the public art processes for Amazon Pool, the Atrium, Fire Stations 1, 6, and 11, and the Train Station. Kirsten came to the Oregon Bach Festival in her retirement years and really enjoys writing grants and being part of this lively organization. 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. Ann Greenfield has been with the Festival since June 2000. Previously, she served as Marketing Director for the Reno Philharmonic and PSA Director for KUNR Public Radio, also in Reno. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism/public relations from the University of Nevada. Greenfield is a member of the Eugene Active 20-30 Club. 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. Amy Murschall joined the Festival in August 2006. She has lived in Eugene since 1990 and graduated from the UO with a BA in Sociology. Amy was a longtime volunteer with the City of Eugene Neighborhood Program and previously had a career assisting adults with disabilities. Currently Amy spends her free time enjoying friends and family, walking the dog with her husband Fred, and listening to her beloved National Public Radio. Gail Norris joined the Festival staff as Volunteer Coordinator in February 2005 after many years as a volunteer herself. In addition to her work at OBF, Gail is a substitute teacher & volunteer in Spanish Immersion School, a volunteer at Peace Health's Emergency Room, & volunteer in Guatemala with Cascade Medical Team's mission to the indigenous hill people. Any leisure time is lavished on her Most Precious Grandchildren, her organic garden & her competitive Women's Supermasters Racewalking team. 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. |
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