Panel Report Music Level 2

Memorandum

The Music Level 2 grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on September 2, 2015. Twenty-four (24) eligible applications were reviewed and all were recommended for funding.

A complete list of all reviewed applications, with the request amounts and final scores, is provided in the following sections.

Panel comment was as follows:

There were no panel comments.

Public comment was as follows:

There were no public comments.

Panel Biographies

Bibi Baloyra

Miami-Dade County

• Executive Director, Bakehouse Art Complex and Miami Fellow Class VIII, The Miami Foundation, Miami, Florida; Founder & Principal, Siebenhar Consulting LLC
• Previously Marketing and Development Advisor, The Global Language Network; Strategic Planning Consultant, Pride Youth Theater Alliance; Special Projects Manager, DeVos Institute of Arts Management, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Manager, Elementary School Programs, Carnegie Hall
• B.M. and M.M., Oboe, Orchestral Performance

Rhett Del Campo

Miami-Dade County

• Executive Director, Seraphic Fire, Inc., Miami, Florida
• Assistant to the Executive Director, Kansas City Symphony
• Director of Arts Initiatives, SocialRaise, Chicago, Illinois
• Principal Percussionist, Royal Swedish Opera and Ballet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Percussion Fellow, New World Symphony
• Volunteer experience: United Way of Miami Dade (Health Council Member), Miami-Dade County, Department of Cultural Affairs (Grant Review Panelist), Emerging Arts Leaders, Miami (Task Force Leader)
• B.A., New England Conservatory of Music; M.M., DePaul University

Evan Jones

Leon County

• Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
• Previously served on voice faculty at University of Memphis and district director for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
• He has performed with Opera Memphis, Opera Naples, Berkshire Opera Company, Compañía Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, the Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Memphis and Helena Symphonies
• Received an Emerging Leader award from Teachers of Singing as one of the nation’s most promising young teachers; 1^st Place, Friends of Eastman Opera Competition; the first recipient of the William McIver Memorial Award in teaching
• D.M.A, Performance and Literature, Eastman School of Music; M.M. and B.M. in Vocal Performance, Florida State University

Kristina Klaas

Palm Beach County

• Independent Grant Writer, Kristina Klaas + Company LLC
• Most recently served as Individual Giving Officer at Palm Beach Opera; also oversaw Palm Beach Opera's grant process (including research, writing, reporting for all awarded grants)
• Previously Dean of Faculty and Students, Summerbridge, Hong Kong; Regional Manager, Read A Recipe for Literacy
• B.A., Liberal Arts, International Studies, Spanish, Honors College at Florida Atlantic University; Certificate in Nonprofit Management, Duke University

Lorraine Roettges

Duval County

• Director of Institutional Giving, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville, Florida
• Previously music teacher, Atlantic Beach and Chets Creek Elementary
• B.A., Music, City University of New York

Ryan Scherber

Cleveland, Ohio

• Lecturer in Music Education/Interim Director of Bands, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio  
• Previously completed his doctoral work in Music Education at Florida State University where he remains Assistant Director of the FSU Summer Music Camps
• Previously served as Executive Director of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras

Curtis Tucker

St. Johns County

• Conductor, Singer, Composer
• Artistic Director. First Coast Opera in Saint Augustine, Saint Augustine, Florida
• Former General Director of Opera Saratoga (NY) and Sorg Opera (OH)
• Former Grant Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts
• Degrees in Law (Northeastern University), Conducting (Univ. of Northern Colorado), and Music Education (Central Methodist College)

Panel Recommendations

This list contains the panel recommendations to the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. This is not a final funding recommendation. Panel review is step 2 in a 4 step review process.