Sandy
Nadeau,
Executive Director
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As
full-time Executive Director, Sandy Nadeau is responsible for daily
operations, communications, public relations, ticket sales, grant writing
and other fund-raising activities. In addition, she serves as the communication
link between the Orchestra and the Board. Nadeau joined the St. Cloud
Symphony Orchestra in 2001.
Involved
with music her entire life, she remembers sitting on the organ bench
as a little girl and watching her grandmother play for church services.
In middle school, high school and college she played the flute and the
bassoon. She performed a number of solos with her high school concert
band on the bassoon.
Later,
she sat on the organ bench again and watched her daughter play for church
services while she sang in the church choir. She learned to love music
from her grandmother, her father (who played trombone in the community
band for his whole adult life) and her daughter.
Nadeau has been
a leader in the non-profit sector for over 14 years. She began her career
in non-profit work with Evergreen Retirement Community in Wisconsin
as the Resident Counselor for the independent living areas in addition
to managing an Alzheimer's support group for North Central Wisconsin.
Nadeau directed the Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child
Abuse for the Boys and Girls Club of Oshkosh for three years. During
this time she conducted a Parent-Aide program, taught parenting classes
in the community and in the state prison, and assisted in the development
of a Health Baby program. Nadeau also served as the Executive Director
of Mothers Against Drunk Driving for the State of Wisconsin and worked
with legislators to lower the legal alcohol limit to 0.08.
After a move to
Colorado in 1997, Nadeau was the Executive Director of Development for
St. Clair of Assisi. She raised funds to build a day care center, a
housing project, and a school for low-income families in the mountains
near Vail. She also served as the Director of Development for The Youth
Foundation, an organization that did programming for low-income youth
in Eagle County.
Nadeau holds a
Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Science in Education from the
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Both degrees were bestowed with honors.
She lives in St. Cloud with her husband, Joe, a Software Specialist
for Bankers Systems. Together, they share their home with Stella the
cat.
William
Schrickel, Music Director
Music Director William Schrickel conducts rehearsals and performances of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, selects concert repertoire, soloists and student competition winners, and works together with the orchestra’s staff, board and musicians to create and execute plans for the ensemble’s growth and the organization’s development.
William Schrickel is completing his sixth and final season as Music Director of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, he and the orchestra received a prestigious Award for Adventurous Programming from ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras. He was an Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra for the 2005-2006 season, and he has been Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in the Twin Cities since 2000.
Schrickel was twenty years old when he won an audition to become a member of the double bass section of the Minnesota Orchestra. A student of Joseph Guastafeste, he attended Northwestern University for three years before joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1976. He became the orchestra’s assistant principal bassist in 1995, and he is currently the acting associate principal of the section. He has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra three times under the batons of Leonard Slatkin and Andrew Litton, performing music of Giovanni Bottesini and John Tartaglia.
An active chamber musician, Schrickel has been a member of the Hill House Chamber Players in St. Paul and was a founding member of the Minneapolis Artists Ensemble (MAE), a chamber music group that performed in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center and commissioned seventeen new works over seven seasons. His chamber music recordings with the MAE include music of Mozart, Hummel, Proto, Larsen, Ives, Aubart and Tartaglia on the GM and Innova labels. He also performs works of Skrowaczewski and Vieira as a guest artist with Ensemble Capriccio on CDs on the Innova and Paulus labels and is featured in music of Piazzolla with the Hill House Chamber Players on a recent recording on the Ten Thousand Lakes label.
Schrickel has participated in the Minnesota Orchestra’s Adopt-A-School music education program since 1993, performing for and speaking to elementary school students to prepare them to attend their first live orchestra concert. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Pamela Hill Nettleton.
Hillary
Vermillion, Librarian
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Hillary
Vermillion, as
part-time Librarian, is responsible for ordering, cataloging, distributing,
and collecting music for each performance. Soprano Hillary Vermillion has appeared in the Central Minnesota area as a soloist with the Minnesota Center Chorale, Calliope Women’s Chorus, and the St. Cloud State University Percussion Ensemble, performing repertoire ranging from Faure’s Requiem to Cirone’s Five Items for Soprano and Percussion. Ms. Vermillion has also been featured on a 1997 Mexican National Radio broadcast as soloist with the St. Cloud State Wind Ensemble. Her recital performances have included Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Lee Hoiby’s Vera’s Aria, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Vier Lieder, Op. 2.
As a chorister, Hillary Vermillion has performed with the Minnesota Center Chorale, the Great River Chorale, and Bella Voce a cappella Consort. Her choral repertoire includes Verdi’s Requiem Mass, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Amy Beach’s Mass in E-flat. She has performed in Santa Prisca Church-Taxco, St. Mary’s Basilica, and Ted Mann Concert Hall.
Ms. Vermillion’s operatic performances with Dorian Opera Theater, Quite Light Opera Company and The University of Minnesota Opera Theater have included the roles of Ms. Gleaton in Floyd’s Susannah, Sister Genevieve in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, the Countess in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, and Baby Doe in Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe.
Pursuing a strong interest in contemporary music, Ms. Vermillion has worked with several contemporary composers to help promote their works. She has collaborated with Minnesota composers Scott Miller, Low Hangs The Moon; Amanda Albrecht, Fragmented; and Dorothy Williams, Positive, and will premier new works by Irish composer Mary McAuliffe and Korean Composer Yung Wha Son in Spring 2006.
A native of Colorado, Ms. Vermillion is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota. She has been a voice instructor in Central Minnesota since 1990, serving on the faculties of St. Cloud State University, Central Lakes College, St. Francis Music Center, Central Minnesota Music School, and Central Minnesota Children’s Theater.
Doug Thompson As part-time Stage Manager, Doug Thompson supervises physical arrangements for rehearsals and performances.
Lord, Personnel Director As
Part-time Personnel Director,Heidi Lord engages the musicians needed for each performance.
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Heidi Lord
has a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance from St. Cloud
State University where she was taught by Dr. Terry Vermillion. While
attending St. Cloud State University, Heidi was a recipient of the David
Swenson Memorial Foundation Scholarship and active in Percussion
Ensemble, Mallet Ensemble, Drumset Ensemble, World Drumming,
Improvisational Workshop, Wind Ensemble and the University Orchestra
with whom she performed a concerto as the 2003 SCSU Orchestra Concerto
Competition winner. Currently, Heidi freelances for musicals, churches and choirs
including the Minnesota
Choral Ensemble and maintains a studio of
private students throughout
central Minnesota. Along with her duties
as Personnel Manager, Heidi is also
a percussionist with the St.
Cloud Symphony
Orchestra.
