MOUNTAINSIDE BAROQUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
SHELLY DILKS, President
RYAN MULLANEY, Secretary
CLINTON BRADLEY, Treasurer
MEMBERS
CLINTON BRADLEY
JEFFREY DILKS
SHELLY DILKS
EMILY KENNEY
RYAN MULLANEY
LYLE NORDSTROM
PATRICIA NORDSTROM
BISHOP MATTHEW RIEGEL
JONATHAN SCHADT
ROBIN SUMMERFIELD
BOARD BIOS
Jeffery Dilks
Jeffery Dilks grew up in rural Illinois and earned a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Illinois and an MA in the History of Technology and Science from Iowa State University. Much of his working career was spent teaching high school physics and leading professional development for secondary school science teachers. Jeff was a long-time member of Iowa State University’s Musica Antiqua, specializing on the renaissance flute. He has sung with Arlington Virginia’s Collegium Cantorum in performances of 15th century English polyphony and has performed on baroque flute alongside Igor Kipnis and with Washington, DC area ensembles such as the Friends of Fasch, Ensemble Gaudior and the Voce Chamber Singers.
Clinton Bradley (Treasurer)
I was born in Easton Maryland on 11/24/1954 and am a lifelong Marylander. My parents raised me to be engaged in supporting family and neighbors in the community via personal service and effort. I attended Frostburg State College where I met my wife, Linda. I graduated in May 1976 with a degree in accounting. Two years later I became a CPA. From 1976 until 1987 I worked in CPA firms in various roles, from staff to manager doing tax returns and audits. From 1987 until I retired in 2014, I worked for the Federal Government in accounting and auditing roles eventually at the Department of Housing and Urban Development overseeing the audits of FHA and GNMA and finally acting as the Audit Liaison for the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs. Since retiring in September 1976 both my wife Linda and I have spent a portion of our time volunteering for various community organizations. We live in McHenry, Md., overlooking Deep Creek Lake. We have always enjoyed the efforts of Mountainside Baroque, and I look forward to this new role assisting as the treasurer.
Shelly Dilks (President)
Michelle (Shelly) Dilks has spent her life surrounded by music. Raised in Chicago with WFMT radio and the occasional trip to the Chicago Symphony, along with piano lessons found her studying music history in college. After a degree from the University of New Orleans and Early Childhood teaching certification from Iowa State University, she devoted her working career to helping others in need. After managing Head Start programs, working for ISU Extension, the Community Action Agency, and concluding her work life at the Department of Health and Human Services, Shelly and husband Jeff retired to Cumberland. Mountainside Baroque was a key factor in the relocation and Shelly is happy to be part of the Board. She brings a love of music, along with management, organization, and myriad other skills. Hobbies include singing, cooking, gardening, rabble rousing, and travel to see two adult daughters and their families.
Emily Kenny
Ryan Mullaney (Artistic Co-Director, Secretary)
See Ryan's bio on his Artistic Co-Director page.
Dr. Lyle Nordstrom (Artistic Co-Director)
See Lyle's bio on his Artistic Co-Director page.
Patricia Nordstrom
Patricia Adams Nordstrom, an original member of the Musicians of Swanne Alley, performed with them in tours across Europe and North America, appearing with them on American, Canadian, German, French, English and Danish radio and television. With Swanne Alley, she recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Focus and Virgin Classics. Trained on historical bowed-string and wind instruments at Stanford University, Pat was on staff at Oakland University in Michigan for fifteen years until her 1992 move to Atlanta. While there, she performed regularly, taught at early music workshops, and also led in the launch of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance. She also has long enjoyed collecting texts and tunes in the English and American ballad tradition. In Texas, she performed with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Dallas Bach Society, Fort Worth Early Music and the Denton Bach Society, and taught viola da gamba at the University of North Texas College of Music until her retirement.
Rt. Rev. Matthew Riegel
Christmas Day 1981, The Dick Cavett Show reran its 1979 episode with the Waverly Consort, and Riegel was hooked. So began a high school junior's quest for LPs, cassettes, and whatever concerts of early music as could be had in Berks County, PA, at the time. College offered the chance to take a 300-level class in musicology of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque---had to beg to be let in because he wasn't a music major---and to sing elements of the Latin mass in the Gettysburg College Chapel Choir. Since then, he's been able to weave his interest in early music into his ecclesiastical work, including sponsoring a schola cantorum at his campus chapel at WVU while chaplain. Now serving as bishop of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod of the Ev. Lutheran Church in America, he and his wife, Tamara, are pleased to support Mountainside Baroque and its summer academy in which their daughter, Grace, participated.
Jonathan Schadt
Robin Summerfield
Robin has deep roots in the people and traditions of the Allegheny Mountain region of Maryland and West Virginia. He completed undergraduate study in Political Science at Frostburg State University and earned a Master of Social Work with concentration on rural practice and community organizations from West Virginia University. His professional background includes working as a professional chef and commercial pilot as well as social work with at risk youth, community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and political campaigning. Since 2007, he has been employed as U.S. Senator Ben Cardin’s Western Maryland Field Representative. He currently serves as Secretary of the Cumberland Scottish Rite Foundation 501(c)3, Secretary of the Cumberland Masonic Temple, Inc. 501(c)3, and is a founding and current member of the Board of Directors of Savage Mountain Punk Arts 501(c)3 and Mountainside Baroque 501(c)3. Robin can be found at DelFest every Memorial Day Weekend leading a crew of volunteers serving beverages in support of the event and The DelFest Foundation. He has been a member of the Maryland State Democratic Central Committee since 2010 and was elected as a Delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention. He is Treasurer of the Western Maryland Democratic Political Action Committee and principal organizer of the Western Maryland Democratic Summit, which draws three hundred attendees to Rocky Gap Casino and Resort every spring. Robin has played guitar and keyboard since the age of twelve and has been involved in the Western Maryland music scene since his college years.