Rebecca A Kaltz
Ann Arbor Area

Freelance Violinist, Violin teacher in Ann Arbor and Chelsea. Horizon Strings Group- quartet, trio, duo or solo strings for your event. Also have a Celtic group, Foxtree as well.

Leslie Austin
Ann Arbor Area

Enthusiastic and fun-loving but serious piano instructor! 20 years' experience; classically trained but teaches all styles. Join me...for the fun of it!

Jean Baker
Outside Washtenaw County

Hello, I am Jean. I am working as a Quality Check Assistant at Tropical Foods. Tropical Foods is the South's premier supplier of bulk food and nuts.

Mike Ball
Ann Arbor Area

Mike Ball is an Erma Bombeck award-winning humorist and author of "What I've Learned So Far..." Mike is also a folk singer/songwriter who is known for his quirky, funny and often heartfelt lyrics. His band, "Dr. Mike & The Sea Monkeys," is named after a recurring character in his nationally-syndicated humor column.

Robert Boardman
Ann Arbor Area

Freelance Conductor, specializing in rehearsing and performing symphonic works from the standard orchestral repertoire and contemporary music. Band, Chorus, and Opera as well. Interests include cross disciplinary collaborations and events of community significance.

tyrone bridges
Ypsilanti Area

Universal Circles Band
Ann Arbor Area

Specializing in Improvising Ambient Percussive Tribal Space Music, located in Michigan USA. MP3 and Video Samples of our ambient music on website.

Mark Clague
Ann Arbor Area

I am a professor of music history focusing on music in the U.S. employed at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. I play bassoon and work with Great Lakes Performing Artists Associates.

Kelly Close
Dexter Area

Private lessons in voice, piano, Voice Movement Therapy. Group lessons in voice, Voice Movement Therapy

Chuck Colby
Dexter Area

4 Part Vocal Band singing music from the Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley and other covers as well as original music. The group is noted for the 3 exceptionally tall "MEN" and the "TENOR" who stands 5 feet tall. a blend of comedy and music that is fun for all ages.

Ed Comeau
Chelsea Area

Ian Cruz
Ypsilanti Area

I am a singer/songwriter from Downriver. I just recently moved to Ypsilanti.

Jeff DiCenzo
Outside Washtenaw County

Primarily in the insurance business. Weekend Warrior musician with band, playing 30-40 times a year.

Carol Dunitz
Ann Arbor Area

I am currently touring in 'Bernhardt on Broadway,' a one-woman musical about Sarah Bernhardt that I researched, wrote, composed, and perform. One hundred years ago Sarah Bernhardt was the most famous woman in the world. She is often referred to as the most famous actress of all time. This is a production that is not only entertaining but authentic. It transports the audience back to the Belle Epoque through the eyes of Sarah Bernhardt. Please go to: www.BernhardtOnBroadway.com to see video and testimonials.

Mike Fedel
Ann Arbor Area

Songwriter, multi-instrumantalist, Improv, graphic arts

Lori Fithian
Ann Arbor Area

I offer an interactive, all-ages program that I call "Drummunity". With my van-load of hand drums and percussion instruments, I'll travel to all kinds of community groups and gatherings to facilitate some amazing "in-the-moment" music-making. It's "Rhythmic FUN for Everyone" - with a message of team-building, unity, diversity, creativity, even ecology, all wrapped up in a community drum circle program.

Paul Forringer
Ann Arbor Area

Individual

Randy Gilchrist
Ann Arbor Area

Tenor; UMS Choral Union, Christ Church Detroit Choir, Twelfth Night Singers; Actor; Birmingham Village Players

Debra Golden
Ypsilanti Area

I'm an artist at large - I paint watercolors (MFA), oils, mixed media and the occasional theatre set. I love when I meet others who overlap along with me in various art disciplines (music, theatre, fine art and design!) Current projects include murals, helping empower others through art, book illustration, painting fanciful fish, and creating 'tunnel' books.

Denise Grupp-Verbon
Outside Washtenaw County

TAPESTRY features Denise Grupp-Verbon, harpist and Michael Grupp-Verbon, guitarist.

Judith Hanway
Ann Arbor Area

piano teacher

Drake Haynes
Outside Washtenaw County

My test profile

Lisa Hinz-Johnson
Chelsea Area

Director of Music & Co-founder, Chelsea Center for the Arts; Voice Instructor

Nathaniel D.J. Hockman
Ypsilanti Area

Lover of music, & the arts, positivity, purpose, & comedy

Michael Hostettler
Outside Washtenaw County

Musician, composer, engineer

julie jaffee nagel
Ann Arbor Area

Musician/psychotherapist. Clinical work and presentations, consultations, on performance anxiety and music as pathway into emotions. General private practice in Ann Arbor. Many awards for work and publications

Valerie Kabat
Ypsilanti Area

Nancy Karp
Ann Arbor Area

Brenda S. Kerster Richardson
Outside Washtenaw County

Artist working in a variety of mediums both professionally and personally. Web site maintenance and design; fine arts (oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics), fiber arts (spinning, weaving, knitting), and music (piano, Celtic harp, violin, guitar, vocals), video editing and post production. Member of Brighton Art Guild. Works as Information Specialist at Hamburg Township, and Daily Programming Director at Channel 99, Hamburg Township Television.

Geoffrey Kinde
Outside Washtenaw County

Exotica/Tiki music from the 50's by artists like Martin Denny, Les Baxter and Arthur Lyman. Songs are played on vintage mallet instruments (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone and bells) from the early 20th century.

Kody Klein
Ypsilanti Area

I play guitar and dabble in just about anything else I can get my hands on. I've been playing for about 7 years. I'm not very well educated musically. I have a loose understanding of basic music theory but in general just (as admittedly trite as this sounds) play what I feel. Specifically as a guitarist, I'd say my biggest influence is Johnny Marr. I like the parts I write to have a similar intricacy. I love tinkering with chords to find just the right voicing. More broadly as a musician, I'd say my primary influences are Sonic Youth, Radiohead, SIlver Jews, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Them Crooked Vultures, and the Black Keys. I'm interested in playing in any sort of experimental rock group.

Ken Kozora
Ann Arbor Area

Composer, Performer, Educator, Thinker and Doer... Ken Kozora has been exploring sound for over 35 years playing trumpet, bass, synthesizer, electronic percussion, wind synth, flutes, hand percussion and any other new noisemaker he happens to stumble upon. Ken has recorded and performed with a wide variety of local and renowned international artists, leads his own world / jazz quartet “KOZORA”, performs solo for special events and composes music for dance (People Dancing Co.) and various media. Ken has taught music sequencing at Washtenaw Community College, music appreciation for seniors at JCC and Elderwise, group drumming & music with emotionally impaired children at Beacon Day Treatment Center, worked with special needs populations at Saline Schools summer program and provides private and group sessions for “those who think and learn in a different way“, as he likes to say! He is the founder and Director of Horns for the Holidays, an instrument recycling/donation program for underprivileged children, is a board member of Riverfolk Music & Arts, is very active on a number of projects with the Arts Alliance and is the Event Manager for Ecology Center. He also likes to mangle photos with his computer in his spare time and call it art...

Zoe Kumagai
Ann Arbor Area

I study double bass at the University of Michigan. I am originally from Southern California. I enjoy seeing dancers swoon to Bach, landscapes by Van Gogh and big fluffy clouds fill the Mid-West sky.

Katherine Larson
Ann Arbor Area

Katherine Larson has done over 150 murals across the United States, illustrated 10 nationally distributed children's books and over 40 Ann Arbor Observer covers as well as countless magazine and commercial publication art. She is also a fine artist and was awarded Artist in Residencies at both Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and The Porcupines Wilderness Park in 2008. A classical singer as well, Katherine has been featured many times with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and has performed several roles such as Tosca and Madama Butterfly with local opera companies. Please visit the website at www.katherinelarson.com for more details.

Jim Leija
Ann Arbor Area

Jim Leija has been the Public Relations Manager for UMS since 2008. In this capacity, Jim manages the more traditional aspects of public and media relations, as well as coordinating UMS’s social media strategies and online community engagement (including overseeing UMS’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr, managing UMS’s Google AdWords account, and producing original audio, video, and blog content). Over the past year, he has served as the project manager for the UMS Lobby Project (www.umsLOBBY.org), created through an "Innovation Lab" grant awarded by EmcArts with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. As a part-time consultant with NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work), Jim interfaces with a diverse array of clients in Metro Detroit’s nonprofit sector. He holds three degrees from the University of Michigan: a Master of Fine Arts in Art & Design, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. He lives in Ann Arbor with his husband and their two rescue dogs, Maisie and Olive.

Hilary Lewis
Milan Area

Sam Livingston
Ann Arbor Area

Percussion-Marimba-Arts Advocacy

Jerry Mack
Ann Arbor Area

Information on local blues/rock favorite The Terraplanes and the visual arts works of Rock Steady

Jeanne Mackey
Ann Arbor Area

Lifelong musician, community-builder. Former director of Sacred Song, co-founder of Transition Ann Arbor. These days, I'm doing autobiographical writing (stories and songs), creating a performance piece on the occasion of turning 60.

Jon Margerum-Leys
Dexter Area

Jon Margerum-Leys is an alto and baritone saxophone player (soprano and tenor as well), doubling flute and clarinet. He is a co-founder of the quartet Fourth Wish, plays lead with the Saline Big Band, has played with the Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James Orchestras, and subs with many other organizations. Jon has gigged in 18 states, has a degree in music from the University of Wisconsin, and is a veteran of the United States Army band program.

Carl Michel
Ann Arbor Area

As a composer, I have worked on projects that won a 2008 Emmy Lower Great Lakes Chapter and a 2004 Emmy Cleveland Regional award for music. I have also released two CD's featuring my compositions, both are available at itunes.

Jon Milan
Ann Arbor Area

The Brakemen is a folk trio lead by pianist, composer Jon Milan, with Scott Clauser and Jeff Sizemore, Milan's Randy Newman/Bob Dylanesque singing style, with songs of historic towns and happenings, paint pictures of the past, present and future.

Paula Muldoon
Ann Arbor Area

Violinist Paula Muldoon is a performer and teacher in the Ann Arbor area. She received a B.M. in Violin Performance with highest honors from the University of Michigan.

Shawn Neal
Outside Washtenaw County

Shawn Neal is the co-creator and producer of GBS Detroit, a new music and media platform designed to serve the needs of the areas independent musicians in this ever changing music business. Shawn has also been a performer in various independent music projects including "The Sugar People" and most recently worked as a Solutions Consultant at Apple, inc.

Debbie Nichols
Milan Area

I am a music teacher, soprano and I love being involved with theater.

James Niemi
Ypsilanti Area

artist and musician

Kate Olson
Ann Arbor Area

Kate is an improvising musician who specializes in woodwinds, primarily saxophone. She collaborates with a number of musicians in the area to produce music that is based largely in "free improvisation," i.e. music created in, by and for the moment of its performance. Kate's background is in classical and jazz saxophone study; she recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a masters degree in Improvisation. While there, she also focused on Creativity and Consciousness studies, which applies the methods and ideologies of contemplative traditions (meditation, for example) to the process of art-making. Kate just released her first CD, Improvised Duets, with guitarist Gary Prince. The album was recorded in Ann Arbor, and features 11 tracks of completely improvised music. Although the concept could be considered somewhat avant garde, the individual songs are tuneful and concise, inviting the listener to contemplate the interaction of the two performers and the sounds they're capable of producing together. Kate is also the Administrative Director of the International Society for Improvised Music, an Ann Arbor-based non-profit dedicated to promoting improvised music and the community of musicians who foster its development. She recently directed their 4th annual conference at UC Santa Cruz.

John Pederson
Ann Arbor Area

Christian Alternative/Pop Rock Musician, Primarily a Songwriter

Robert Reed
Ypsilanti Area

I currently teach cello at EMU and have been a professional cellist for over 25 years, performing with orchestras such as the DSO, Toledo Symphony, and the Michigan Opera Theatre. I have soloed with orchestras across the state and performed chamber music with members of the DSO. I have also appeared with artists such as Mary J. Blige, Rod Stewart, Regis Philbin, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, John Denver, YES, Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen, Sarah Brightman, Marvin Hamlisch, Sandi Patti, Mannheim Steamroller, Cleo Laine, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti to name a few.

Fred Reif
Ann Arbor Area

Roland Remington
Ann Arbor Area

Exotica/Tiki music from mid century America.

Carl Rinne
Ann Arbor Area

Carl Rinne plays jazz trombone with the Saline Big Band and has performed nationally and internationally with the vocal jazz group, PRIME.

Joe Roesch
Milan Area

Jim Russell
Outside Washtenaw County

Roy Schmidt
Chelsea Area

Run, Drum, Write. Photograph, Mountaineer.

Kirk Schneemann
Ann Arbor Area

Eric Schweizer
Ann Arbor Area

Brian Shell
Ypsilanti Area

Author of "Everyday Single Mom"

Dave SmilingSun
Chelsea Area

Suzanne Smith
Ann Arbor Area

cellochan, located in Ann Arbor, MI., is a program for cellists created by Director/Teacher Suzanne Smith that has thrived and evolved for over fifteen years.

Shelly Smith
Ann Arbor Area

I am a comedy writer, performer, show producer and emcee. Aaaaaand sometimes director, back up singer, videographer, blogger, creator of things. Wanting to collaborate with illustrators, videographers, and animators. Call me!

Summer sMTH
Outside Washtenaw County

MY MOBILE# 0063-919-261-6111

Ann Stofflet
Saline Area

I am a writer (playwright, short story), photographer and vocalist. I also enjoy stone carving and sculpture, drawing and watercolor. I have an MBA in Marketing and Communications and Media Management.

Martha Travers
Manchester Area

My path is to assist individuals in accessing their creativity and life-vision. To do this, I teach contemplative practice (sitting meditation, tai chi, working with color, etc) and nature-based contemplative practice. I teach a 'Writer and Contemplative Practice' retreat at the GilChrist retreat center as well as a nature & mysticism retreat. I also teach these retreats in Northern Michigan in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. Open to all who want to quest for deep vision with the assistance of the natural world. My work pertains to all the arts.

Mike Vickers
Dexter Area

Songwriter and arts supporter

Libby Watson
Outside Washtenaw County

The Adrian Symphony Orchestra is the Professional Orchestra-in-Residence at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. We exist to provide the highest quality musical performances and to enhance the lives of everyone in Southeast Michigan.

Kathy Waugh
Ann Arbor Area

Nathan Witus
Ann Arbor Area

Stephanie Wottreng
Ann Arbor Area

Suzanne Young
Ann Arbor Area

Costume designer with over 30 years experience in the performing arts. 2011 Wilde Award nominee.