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PianoArts Founder and Manger
Sue Medford Founder and Manager of PianoArts
Photography: Richard Bublitz

 

Sue Medford
Sue Medford is founder of PianoArts, a national piano competition and music festival that was formed in 1995 with a collaboration of Milwaukee musicians and educators.

A large portion of Ms. Medford’s career was spent with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, where she was the Director of Education and Education Concert Manager for over 23 years. Many of the education programs she developed became national models, reaching over one million Wisconsin children and preparing thousands more to become educators and music professionals.

Prior to her MSO position, Ms. Medford was the Director of Audience Development for the Florentine Opera and the National Representative for Summy-Birchard Music Publishing Company. In the latter position, she organized, promoted, lectured and performed for teachers at college seminars and in workshops from coast to coast.
Ms. Medford was also on the faculty of the New School for Music Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where she taught in both the preparatory and professional departments. She is a graduate of Western Carolina College, a campus of the University of North Carolina, and the professional program of the New School for Music Study, founded by Frances Clark and
Louise Goss.

Among Ms. Medford’s honors was her election as a Trustee and Director of Public Relations for the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, from 1999 to 2003. In 2005 Ms. Medford received Milwaukee’s Civic Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also on the piano faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
PianoArts Governing Board

Music Director
Andrews Sill

Founder and Manager
Sue Medford

President
JoAnne Krause







Vice President
Campion Kersten

Secretary
Dalibor Drummer

Treasurer
Glen Wuest



Artistic Committee Chair
Stefanie Jacob


National Marketing Chair
James Norden


Board of Directors

Marguerite Alpers
Audrey Baird
Penelope Egan
JoAnne Nissen

Charlane O'Rourke-HertigMargaret Otwell
Mary Tenwinkel

Ariana Voigt
Barbara Wanless

 

PianoArts Advisory Board PianoArts Honorary Board

Joyce Altman
Gretta Assaly
Jean Barr
Patricia Crump

Thomas Cunningham


Lee Dougherty
Karen Falkowski
Anne Grunau

Elizabeth Joy Roe

Wilanna Kalkhof

Renée Logee
Marilyn McGriff
Carole Meekins
Daniel Beliavsky
John Covelli
Louise Goss

David Pocock
Jeffrey Siegel
Christopher Taylor
Alexander Toradze
Susan Wadsworth