MUSIC

Creative Arts

Carlos Adames

Adjunct Instructor, Percussion Techniques

Carlos is a widely acclaimed percussionist, composer, arranger, and educator.  He is committed to breaking down traditional percussion barriers to perform Latin rhythms, jazz, funk, and hip hop while retaining his distinctly Latin roots.

Glenn Asch, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Violin and Viola

Glenn teaches violin and viola at Alverno and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 1980. He is currently in the Chris Hanson Band (swing), the Tritonics (roots reggae, ska), and Xalaat (West African) and a rhythm student of Hindole Majumdar.

Megan Buschkopf, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Cello and Instrumental Lab

Megan Buschkopf began her violin studies at the String Academy of Wisconsin and continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance and Master’s degrees in String Pedagogy as well as Chamber Music Performance. She currently performs with the Riso Quartet and has served as a faculty member of the String Academy of Wisconsin and Alverno College. She teaches students through Latino Arts String Program and Wisconsin String Studio.

Mark Davis, BSM

Adjunct Instructor, Improvisational Keyboard and Improvisational Ensemble

Mark Davis is a local expert in jazz piano who has coordinated Jazz programs with the Milwaukee Jazz Institute, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Cardinal Stritch.  Performances include the Pabst Theater, Jazz in the Park, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, Summerfest, and the Lakefront Festival of the Arts.

Nancy Dexter-Schabow, MMT, MT-BC, WMTR

Assistant Professor, Alverno College Music Therapy Clinic Supervisor

Schabow is an Alverno alumnae, experienced clinician, and faculty member. She owns a thriving private practice specializing in music therapy for Autistic persons and individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. She brings real-life clinical experiences to her courses focused on improvisation, developmental disabilities, and theoretical frameworks.

Drew Donica, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Piano

Drew holds degrees in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy, is an active piano instructor, a collaborative pianist, adjudicator for a variety of local and regional competitions, board member for the Wisconsin State Music Teachers Association, and presenter at music teacher conferences. Drew coordinates our piano program and assesses piano proficiencies.

David Hein, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Alverno Choir Director

David is an experienced choral conductor, church music director, and music educator and Alverno Choir Director.  He is the Artistic Director of the Fond du Lac Children’s Chorale and Organist and Sanctuary Choir Accompanist at the United Methodist Church of Shorewood. His experiences include music production, composing, vocal clinics.

Gerry Keene, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Trumpet

Gerry is a freelance trumpet player in the Milwaukee area with more than 20 years of teaching experience. He is currently principal trumpet of the Festival City Symphony, and has played with numerous Milwaukee area ensembles, including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Kenosha Symphony and Racine Symphony.

Mackenzie Kojis, MT-BC

Adjunct Instructor, Clinical Music Therapy Behavioral Health

Mackenzie is an expert behavioral health music therapist with specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She is also employed at the VA Medical Center and works on both the inpatient mental health program.She has also worked at Rogers Behavioral Health System and Life in Harmony Music Therapy LLC. 

Linda Nielsen Korducki, DMA

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Flute and Flute Ensemble

Linda Nielsen Korducki serves as principal flutist of the Fox Valley and Oshkosh Symphony Orchestras and has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, Milwaukee Ballet, Pamiro Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theater, Bel Canto, Racine, Kenosha, Rockford, Chicago Pops and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestras. Linda maintains a private teaching studio in addition to her work at Alverno.

Laura McLaughlin, DMA

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Clarinet

Margaret Butler Padilla, MM

Adjunct Instructor, Applied Clarinet

Oboist Margaret Butler Padilla received her Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and Master of
Music degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. She was principal oboe of the Palm Beach Opera, Florida, Grand
Opera and Miami City Ballet before joining the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2002. She has been a featured
soloist at the Banff Festival in Canada and was a guest principal oboist at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has
appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and with the Milwaukee Symphony. In 2013 she was appointed to the position of solo
English Horn by the Milwaukee Symphony’s music director, Edo de Waart.

Matt Schroeder, BFA

Adjunct Instructor, Guitar

Matthew is a Milwaukee based WAMI winning guitarist who is equally at home on electric or acoustic guitar. Matt teaches at Alverno College, Mount Mary University and at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Matt is also the Artistic Director for Interlochen College of Creative Arts' annual Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop.

Lee Stovall, BME

Adjunct Instructor, A Cappella Ensemble Director

Lee Stovall directs Nova A Cappella and is a full- time vocal music director at Rufus King High School. He directed award-winning ensembles, Delta V and the Poprockets, was a founding member of the UW-Madison Fundamentally Sound, a gifted arranger, judge, and board member of A Cappella University.

Mary Stryck, MS, MT-BC

Adjunct Instructor, Music Therapy

Mary has worked as a clinician and coordinator of Music and Occupational Therapy Services at the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. She is an active member of the American Music Therapy Association serving in a variety of leadership roles, helped create the Alverno Master of Music Therapy and is a busy freelance violinist.

Bernie Thomas

Adjunct Instructor, Music Technology

Bernie Thomas is a drummer and music producer with a fierce curiosity for the intersection of music, computers and play. Bernie has been exploring beatmaking and music production since the early 2000s and is proficient in Ableton Live and FL Studio, as well as a variety of studio environment software and hardware. Bernie is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, teacher of drums and percussion, and the creator and designer of the CollaboRAVE, an interactive rave for the online 2020 American Music Therapy Association conference. Bernie and his partner Natasha founded BT Playgrounds, a service specializing in teaching music production techniques that benefit music therapists and other enthusiastically curious souls.