Music
Creative Arts
Faculty Members
Rob Collier, DMA, MM
Assistant Professor, Music Theory
rob.collier@alverno.edu
Rob Collier, composer and performer originally from Louisville, Kentucky. Recordings of Rob’s compositions have been released on Capstone Records in the United States, and Unlabel, WM Recordings, and Greed Recordings. Rob’s music has been choreographed by Alight Dance Theater, Starr Foster Dance Project, Beth Rodriguez, and the Louisville Ballet Youth Ensemble.
Rebecca L. (Becky) Engen, PhD, MT-BC
Director of Graduate Music Therapy
becky.engen@alverno.edu
| Becky Engen is an experienced music therapy educator, presenter at regional, national, and international conferences and published in the Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives, with interests in voice, vocal health, and music therapy pedagogy. Her clinical specialties are in mental health and long term acute medical settings. |
Leslie A. Henry, MM, MT-BC
Associate Professor, Director of Music Therapy
leslie.henry@alverno.edu
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Leslie an Alverno Alumnae is an experienced music therapy clinician working in clinical populations from birth to death and a music therapy educator since 2016. She holds a Fellow designation in Neurologic Music Therapy and serves as a Co-Chair to the Professional Advocacy Committee for the American Music Therapy Association.
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Sarah Richardson, DMA, MM, MFA
Adjunct Instructor (Voice) and Performance Coordinator
sarah.richardson@alverno.edu
Sarah Richardson, DMA, MM, MFA
Adjunct Instructor (Voice) and Performance Coordinator
sarah.richardson@alverno.edu
An active performer, Sarah has worked with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Present Music, Florentine Opera, and Bel Canto Chorus Embodying and advocating for vocal wellness through holistic voice training is at the center of her teaching. She supports students’ goals by incorporating current scientific voicework, such as the Estill Voice Model.
Steven R. Janco, MCM., DMin
Music and Liturgy Program Director
steven.janco@alverno.edu
Well known to many Catholic musicians as a composer, teacher and author, Steve served for 10 years as Director of the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana. “Though the MAML is a new curriculum, developed in response to the needs of parishes and musicians today, it draws inspiration from the practical, can-do approach of Fr. Larry Heiman, CPPS, and the Rensselaer Program that he founded nearly 60 years ago. I’d like to think that the Rensselaer Spirit now lives in Milwaukee!”
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.
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