Producer Marty Ronish
Marty Ronish is an independent radio producer. She produces the national broadcasts for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (52 weeks a year, airing in 357 markets) and a 13-week national series for La Jolla SummerFest (on hiatus in 2009). From 2004-07 she was Editor of NPR Music in Washington DC. Before that she spent twelve years on-air, and 3 years producing 500 arts features a year for KUNM in Albuquerque. From 2000-2005 she produced an NEA-supported music education series for kids called Boombox Classroom.
Marty has interviewed more than 3,000 artists for radio.
Trained as an educator and musicologist, Marty is co-author with Donald Burrows of A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford University Press, 1994). The book won the Music Library Association’s Book of the Year Award. Ronish was a Fulbright Scholar in England from 1980-82 and received her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Maryland in 1984.
Contact: mronish@flash.net
You can read her blog at Scanning the Dial
Engineer Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz has worked in numerous facets of audio production in the Albuquerque, NM area for the last fifteen years. Projects include Boombox Classroom (2001-2005), Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts (2007-present), La Jolla SummerFest broadcasts (2008, 2009), and working on the sets of Wildfire (ABC Family Network) and Crash (Starz Network) as ADR recording engineer. Album projects include Susan Clark Waitin’ For The Wind, which in 2007 won the New Mexico Music Association’s Best CD and Best Production.
From 1995-2000, he was employed by Sunrise Teleproductions, a turnkey production house that assembled 30 second commercials to 60 minute program length material for radio and television. He won a Telly Award in 1999 for his audio work on a series of New Mexico Tourism Infomercials.
Engineer Richard Obenauf
Richard Obenauf holds an MA in English and American Literature from Loyola University Chicago, where he is a currently a candidate for a PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of New Mexico with degrees in English and French.
Obenauf has been working as an audio editor for Sweet Bird Classics since 1999. From 2001-2006 he edited the twice-daily show Performance New Mexico for KUNM, Albuquerqe. Since 2007 he has been editing broadcast and web audio for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts and other SBC productions.
Richard plays the violin and has held an amateur radio license since he was fourteen.
Administrator Mary Hubbard
Mary Hubbard has 15 years of management experience in both the for-profit and the not-for-profit arenas. She completed an MS in Arts Management at Boston University. While in Boston Mary worked on projects for the Artful Adventures Educational Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough. Most of her work focused on using data to help the organizations understand their audience and strengthen their relationships.
In Seattle, Mary has worked for several non-profits including Kids Quest Children’s Museum, Lutheran Alliance to Create Housing, and the Northwest Women’s Law Center.
Mary’s prior experience includes studying in Paris at the Ecole de la Cuisine de Ritz Escoffier and founding a successful bakery and cooking school. She spent several years teaching cooking classes to both children and adults. She fell in love with the very talented Seattle-based actor Frank Corrado and married him as soon as she realized that he was a better cook than she was.