Board of Directors of Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship

Kaye Camp

Kaye Camp is a graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, with a degree in Accounting and has had her CPA license since 1990. She has worked in public and private accounting; currently she is on volunteer staff with International Christian Ministries and Soul Rest Ministries. [...]

Harry “Chip” Hill

B.Mus. Georgia State, MM University of Michigan, DMA University of South Carolina. Studied with David Shifrin, Fred Ormand, and Doug Graham. Harry Hill has served as principal clarinetist with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in Asheville, NC since 1986. [...]

 Karen Hill 

Director of Orchestra Wind Chamber Music; Mrs. Hill is an active performer and is currently the Principal Clarinetist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic, Principal Second Clarinetist of the Asheville Symphony and a member of the Arbor Wind Trio. Karen has been on the faculty at Converse College [...]

 Patrick Kavanaugh (ex officio)

Executive Director, Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship; Artistic Director, The MasterWorks Festival; Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh is the Executive Director of the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship. The author of nine books including The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, he also has written many articles for such publications as the National Review, Focus on the Family, and Charisma.[...]

Barbara Kavanaugh

Director of Orchestra String Chamber Music; B.Mus. Catholic University of America. Studied with Stephen Kates, Guillermo Helguera, Robert Newkirk, and chamber music with Josef Gingold. Mrs. Kavanaugh studied at the University of Louisville, the Meadowmount School of Music, and the Catholic University of America.[...]

 Dr. James Kraft

Director, Orchestra/Chamber Music Program; Dr. James Kraft holds degrees from Florida State University (BS), and Catholic University of America (MM, DMA). From 1976 - 2005 Dr. Kraft was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra trombone section. He has also performed as a trombonist, euphonium player and bass trumpeter [...]

 Mary Jeane Kraft (ex officio)

Chief Operations Officer, Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship; Mary Jeane Kraft graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music in Applied Cello. She has played with the Eastern Music Festival, New Orleans Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the MasterWorks Festival Orchestra.  [...]

 Bonnie Ringleb

MasterWorks Festival Dance Program Director; A native of Plainfield, Indiana Bonnie attended Indiana University and New York University as a dance major. She additionally studied dance with such noted teachers as Maggie Black, Perry Brunson, Ray Bussy and studied in the apprentice programs of the Philadelphia and Milwaukee Ballet Schools. [...]

Walter Ringleb

Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music, additional studies at Peabody Conservatory of  Music, Johns Hopkins University. Established Ringleb Woodwinds in 1993. Walter maintains a private studio of clarinet instruction and is a free lance musician in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.  [...]

 Donna Tavani

Donna Tavani has studied and taught voice for the past 25 years.  She received her B.M. in voice performance from Florida State University, and a M.M. from University of Maryland, also in voice performance.  A lyric soprano, she has sung the roles of Countess in Marriage of Figaro,[...]

 Nicholas J Tavani MD, PhD

Dr Nicholas J. Tavani is a Family Physician, residency trained and Board Certified with the American Board of Family Medicine with 25 years of clinical experience with primary care patients.  Dr Tavani grew up here in the Washington area and went to college at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [...]

 Joyce Anne Wilder

Joyce Anne Wilder, B.Mus. Wichita State University, MM University of Michigan. Mrs. Wilder was a flutist in the Wichita Symphony for thirty years. She was also the flute instructor at Southwestern College for 28 years and continues to maintain her private studio (even teaching some students online). [...]

 Dr. Michael Wilder

Chairman of the Board of Directors; Director of Wind Intensive Study Program; Michael Wilder completed his undergraduate studies in music at Iowa State University and his M.Mus. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He currently serves as the Dean of the Conservatory of Music, Arts, and Communication at Wheaton College, a program that involves more than 400 majors[...]

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