Nominations Open for the 2020 Mead Witter School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award
From https://www.music.wisc.edu/2020/06/12/distinguished-alumni-award-nominations-now-open/
Nominations for the 2020 Mead Witter School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award are now open. This award recognizes an alumnus or alumna who is making, or has made, an outstanding contribution to the Music profession in service or in artistic impact. In addition to the award, the award recipient will receive recognition on the school’s website with a profile in any publication related to the award.
Nominations are due October 15, 2020. Learn more about the nomination process and eligibility requirements: Distinguished Alumni Award
For the purpose of judging nominations, an outstanding contribution should include evidence of one or more of the following:
• Artistic Award: Exceptional skills and credentials as a music professional.
• Service Award: Noteworthy contributions in music to society at large including significant influence on the candidate’s place of employment, community, and/or profession.
Nominations for the 2020 Mead Witter School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award are now open. This award recognizes an alumnus or alumna who is making, or has made, an outstanding contribution to the Music profession in service or in artistic impact. In addition to the award, the award recipient will receive recognition on the school’s website with a profile in any publication related to the award.
Nominations are due October 15, 2020. Learn more about the nomination process and eligibility requirements: Distinguished Alumni Award
For the purpose of judging nominations, an outstanding contribution should include evidence of one or more of the following:
• Artistic Award: Exceptional skills and credentials as a music professional.
• Service Award: Noteworthy contributions in music to society at large including significant influence on the candidate’s place of employment, community, and/or profession.
JoAnne Brown Krause receives 2019 Mead Witter School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award
As part of the Hamel Music Center Celebration Weekend, JoAnne Brown Krause was recognized on July 26 as the 2019 Distinguished Music Alumna during intermission of the sold out concert in the Mead Witter Concert Hall.
JoAnne Brown Krause is a true Wisconsinite, born and raised on a farm in Northwestern Wisconsin where she graduated from Shell Lake High School. Her high school band director, Darrel Aderman, an alumnus of the UW School of Music, encouraged JoAnne to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She subsequently received her Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1961 and shortly thereafter married Don Krause, whom she met in her junior year. They are proud that two of their three children and their oldest grandson are also UW-Madison Alumni.
Throughout the years, JoAnne has used her music education degree in a variety of capacities - as a public school general music teacher, as a studio piano instructor, church music director, and accompanist for WSMA competitions, to name just a few. In 1985 she was recruited to join the education wing of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League thus continuing her teaching as a docent and providing volunteer support for the MSO’s Youth programs. As an almost full-time volunteer, she found the work of promoting classical music education especially rewarding.
JoAnne has served in a variety of leadership roles on multiple boards including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the Volunteer Council of the American Symphony Orchestra League, PianoArts of Wisconsin, and is a dedicated and enthusiastic member of the UW School of Music Board of Advisors. She has sustained this activity while also singing with the MSO chorus for seventeen years and in her church choir for over fifty years. JoAnne is simply the person to know about all things Milwaukee and music.
In 1996, the Krauses joined the grassroots committee to provide a performing venue for the Elmbrook school system including holding "fireside chats" to educate and to raise the necessary funds. The result is the beautiful Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, including a special space for music education named in honor of JoAnne.
Not surprisingly, JoAnne has been the recipient of many honors: the 2007 AWSO award for “Outstanding Service to Music”; the 2009 “Distinguished Citizen-Patron of the Arts” award from Milwaukee’s Civic Music Association; the MSO’s Chairman’s Council Award, and with husband Don, she shared the “2014 Badger of the Year” award presented by the Waukesha Alumni Chapter.
The Krauses live out their belief that Badgers give back to the University. In 2006 they established a scholarship in the Mead Witter School of Music that presents two annual scholarships to a junior or senior majoring in Music Education. As a member of the School’s Board of Advisors, JoAnne, along with Don, pledged early support for the Hamel Music Center.
JoAnne Brown Krause is a true Wisconsinite, born and raised on a farm in Northwestern Wisconsin where she graduated from Shell Lake High School. Her high school band director, Darrel Aderman, an alumnus of the UW School of Music, encouraged JoAnne to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She subsequently received her Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1961 and shortly thereafter married Don Krause, whom she met in her junior year. They are proud that two of their three children and their oldest grandson are also UW-Madison Alumni.
Throughout the years, JoAnne has used her music education degree in a variety of capacities - as a public school general music teacher, as a studio piano instructor, church music director, and accompanist for WSMA competitions, to name just a few. In 1985 she was recruited to join the education wing of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League thus continuing her teaching as a docent and providing volunteer support for the MSO’s Youth programs. As an almost full-time volunteer, she found the work of promoting classical music education especially rewarding.
JoAnne has served in a variety of leadership roles on multiple boards including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the Volunteer Council of the American Symphony Orchestra League, PianoArts of Wisconsin, and is a dedicated and enthusiastic member of the UW School of Music Board of Advisors. She has sustained this activity while also singing with the MSO chorus for seventeen years and in her church choir for over fifty years. JoAnne is simply the person to know about all things Milwaukee and music.
In 1996, the Krauses joined the grassroots committee to provide a performing venue for the Elmbrook school system including holding "fireside chats" to educate and to raise the necessary funds. The result is the beautiful Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, including a special space for music education named in honor of JoAnne.
Not surprisingly, JoAnne has been the recipient of many honors: the 2007 AWSO award for “Outstanding Service to Music”; the 2009 “Distinguished Citizen-Patron of the Arts” award from Milwaukee’s Civic Music Association; the MSO’s Chairman’s Council Award, and with husband Don, she shared the “2014 Badger of the Year” award presented by the Waukesha Alumni Chapter.
The Krauses live out their belief that Badgers give back to the University. In 2006 they established a scholarship in the Mead Witter School of Music that presents two annual scholarships to a junior or senior majoring in Music Education. As a member of the School’s Board of Advisors, JoAnne, along with Don, pledged early support for the Hamel Music Center.