Board of Trustees

Frank Lampert-Hopkins
Frank Lampert-Hopkins
President
2013-2015


Kathy Parsons
Kathy Parsons
S
ecretary
2012-2014

 

 
  • Member of Summit Chorale since 2010
  • Chair, Media and Publicity Committee
  • Manager, Concerts/Family Entertainment, MSG Entertainment (covering events at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Beacon Theatre)
  • 1992-2001 – Event Coordinator, Radio City Entertainment (Special Events including 5 Super Bowl Halftime Shows, “The NFL at 75”, and Radio City Music Hall Grand Re-Opening)
  • 1985-1999 – Actor/Tour Coordinator, National Theater of the Performing Arts (educational theater touring company)
  • B.A., Speech & Dramatic Arts, University of Iowa
  • Member of Summit Chorale since 2005

 

Jane Erickson
Jane Erickson
2013-2014

Tracy Hart
Tracy Hart
2013-2015

Barbara Kimmich
Barbara Kimmich
2013-2015

Larry Schwenk
Larry Schwenk
2013-2015

  • Former member of Summit Chorale
  • Past Vice-President, President and Membership Chair
  • Graduate of Westminster Choir College, Princeton NJ; Masters work Boston University
  • Choral Conductor, drama director, and producer for 35 years, retired
  • Voice teacher and pedagogue
  • Author, speaker: Adult Stem Cell Transplants
  • Past President, Maplewood South Orange First Night
  • Past Chair and Current Secretary, Presbyterian Women Rummage Sale, Prospect Presbyterian Church, Maplewood
  • Chair, Class of 1970 Reunion
  • Soloist, Prospect Presbyterian Church Choir
  • Member, Organist/Choir director coaching team
  • Member, ACDA, MENC, NJEA
  • Former member of Summit Chorale
  • Graduate of Susquehanna University, B.M. in Music Education
  • Professional church section leader and soloist
  • Sang with other choral groups including Harmonium and Pro Nobis
  • Co-founder of Equilibrium Voices
  • Regular participant in the Amherst Early Music Festival
  • Performer at American Guild of Organists lecture/recital in Princeton, NJ
  • Member of Summit Chorale since 2009
  • Previously sung with Bay Area Chorus in Clear Lake, TX and Corpus Christi Chorale in Corpus Christi, TX
  • Currently a Group Leader and Research Chemist at Lummus Technology’s Technology Development Center in Bloomfield, NJ
  • Worked for Celanese Chemicals as a researcher in Texas and Oberhausen, Germany
  • Member of Summit Chorale Board (in separate terms) since 1996
  • Holds BSEE. from Iowa State University, and JD from The John Marshall Law School
  • Retired from AT&T in 1989
  • Served as market research and planning volunteer, United Way in New Jersey and New York City
  • Served as  Director of Development, Masterwork Music and Art Foundation
  • Served as Member, Board of Trustees, The Historical Society of Somerset Hills
  • Consultant for a small artists' management agency
  • Retired private pilot

Molly Warnke
Molly Warnke

2012-2014

Ellie Winslow
Ellie Winslow
2013-2015

 


  • Member of Summit Chorale since 2009
  • Senior Scientist, Merck & Co., Summit, NJ
  • Member of Concord Singers, Summit, NJ
  • Treasurer for NJACS Younger Chemist Committee
  • B.A. in Chemistry from Hamline University
  • Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University
  • Sang previously with Arlington Master Chorale (TX), Ames Choral Society (IA), and Hamline University A Capella Choir (MN)
  • Member of Summit Chorale since 1992
  • Has served four terms on the Board of Trustees
  • Part-time Reference Librarian at Maplewood Memorial Library, Maplewood
  • Board Member of Maplewood Garden Club; active for many years
  • Retired from School District of Maplewood/South Orange; served as teacher and school librarian
  • Trustee and Maplewood Coordinator of Mostly Music Chamber Music, Inc.
  • Graduate of Douglass College and President of her Alumnae Class
  • Member of Prospect Presbyterian Church Choir, Maplewood