| City | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, US |
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| Description | Lunch Time Concert Series on select Wednesdays from Noon-1pm at the Steinway Piano Gallery of Milwaukee. Suggested Donation $5. For over 30 years Lou has enjoyed an enviable career as a music professor, conductor and trumpeter at home and on the road. Since Fall of 1992, Dr. Louis A. Menchaca, Professor of Music, has directed all aspects of instrumental music at CUW. Under his guidance, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble has gained local, regional, national and international attention by performing in concert halls, churches and schools in thirty six states (including Hawaii) and Europe. Current plans are underway for a 2015 international tour to Austria. Other duties include conducting the Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble as well as serving as department head. He also teaches conducting, music education and graduate music theory review. Music teacher preparation and student-teaching supervision remains a priority in his teaching mission. His band and orchestra alumni hold teaching and administrative positions across the United States. For more than 30 years, Dr. Menchaca has been a music-maker and producer at the high school, university and professional levels. His collaborative skills have allowed innovative programming in the genres of Jazz, Orchestra, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Brass, Youth, Pops, Symphonic and Concerto. Affiliated in both academic and professional music circles, colleagues regard him for his inspired, thorough and exciting music-making experiences with both constituents. His professional music associations have enabled the music department to have assembled one of the finest and prolific collegiate applied music staffs in the Midwest. His Concordia colleagues honored him as “Faculty Laureate†for excellent and inspired teaching. Milwaukee’s “M†Magazine named him one of the “Northshore’s favorite musicians to watch.†He has been elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Beta Mu, (Wisconsin), the National Band Honorary for outstanding teaching and performance. His trumpet remains an integral part of his life as he leads his own professional brass choir, jazz quartet and big band. He is also an active church musician and recitalist. He is married to Lorene Anne (MSW) and is father to two very musical boys, Louis Alan (20- University of Wisconsin music education major) and Brent Austin (17- Homestead High School trumpet). |
| Date | Wednesday Apr 25, 2018 |
| Time | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
| Address | 11550 West North Avenue, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53226 |
| Added on Wednesday Jan 10, 2018 | |
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