Our People
Chesapeake Chamber Music, Inc. is governed by a Board of Directors which meets monthly, with responsibility for the financial health of the organization, and overall policy and strategic direction. All are very active volunteers, assisted by some 150 volunteer colleagues involved in much of the essential work of the organization. Throughout the year, volunteers work in the areas of communications, marketing, publications, arranging housing and meals for artists, selling tickets and advertisements, raising money, and staffing concerts and other events. Volunteers contribute an estimated 2,500 hours annually to the organization.
Seven part-time staff people - Donald Buxton, the Executive Director since the organization's founding, and an Assistant to the Executive Director, Bookkeeper, Stage Manager, and three YouthReach teachers - manage the day-to-day activities of Chesapeake Chamber Music, Inc.
Programming decisions and the selection of artists to perform are made each year by the organization's two Artistic Co-Directors for the past 24 years, J. Lawrie Bloom and Marcy Rosen. All of the participating musicians in Chesapeake Chamber Music programs are world-class players who have appeared as soloists or in ensembles throughout the United States and internationally. One of the programs, the International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition engages a distinguished international Advisory Board and Panel of Judges.
Board of Directors
- Rush Moody, Jr., President
- Patricia Barbis, Vice President
- Philip Webster, Vice President, Communications
- Dyanne Welte, Secretary
- Margaret Miller Welch, Treasurer
- James Campbell
- Garry Clarke
- Arnold Lerman
- Judy Madole
- Jean McHale
- Bernice Michaels
- Chloe Pitard
- Penelope Proserpi
- Michael Smilow
- Margo Tilghman
- Kathleen Wise
- Leslie Westbrooke
- Hannah Woicke
- J. Lawrie Bloom, Co-Artistic Director
- Marcy Roen, Co-Artistic Director
- Donald Buxton, Executive Director
- Nancy Mullen, Assistant to the Executive Director
