Meet the EPSMF Board of Directors
Lynn Provenzano, President
lprovenzano@epsmf.org
Lynn Provenzano brings leadership and extensive professional business and marketing skills to the EPSMF Board. She has worked internationally, nationally and locally with strategic product and sales development with key U.S. and Swedish retailers and wholesalers. Ms. Provenzano has taught as an instructor in the accelerated business programs at Vista College. Ms. Provenzano has been a consultant for the El Paso Opera, (re)ALIGN, and local organizations. She is currently the Executive Director for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Texas, El Paso. She is also a facilitator for community events and activities regarding personal development and motivation.
Dr. Phillip D. Hill, Vice-president
Dr. Phillip D. Hill joined the voice faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso in the fall of 2018 where he teaches applied voice and other voice related classes. Dr. Hill holds a DMA and MM degree in voice performance from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA degree in voice performance from Mississippi College. His career includes international performances of operatic and oratorio roles and extensive teaching experience at the university level. He has had the pleasure of singing a master class under Leontyne Price and won the 2007 Austin Critics Table Award for Outstanding Classical Singer. Some of his solo credits include baritone soloist in Delius' Appalachia, under the direction of Gunther Schuller, bass soloist in Garcia's Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceicão, Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, L'Ami in Debussy's Fall of the House of Ushers, Falstaff in Getty's Plump Jack, Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Olin Blich in Floyd's Susannah, baritone soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana, baritone soloist in Handel's Messiah, as well as numerous bass and baritone solos in Bach's Cantatas.
Jan Brady, Director
Malori Cade, Director
Karen Fraser, Director
Victoria Schwartz, Director
Cheryl Tomczuk, Director
Wilma Salzman, Director
About EPSMF Board of Directors
Jan Brady is a longtime EPSMF board member and supporter who retired from bio research with a passion for the Arts.
Malori Cade is a graduate of the UTEP Music Department with a degree in Music Theater Performance and a Masters in Education. She has worked as a performer for El Paso Opera, The Gilbert and Sullivan Company, UTEP Dinner Theatre, and the Austrian/American Mozart Academy. She has worked in stage management for El Paso Opera, El Paso Youth Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Sarasota Opera, Sarasota Youth Opera, and Opera UTEP. Cade has performed full productions of in Suor Angelica, La Bohème, La Cage aux Folles, The Magic Flute, Don Quixote, The Mikado, and other scene and outreach productions.
Karen R. Fraser is a retired registered nurse who moved to El Paso in September, 2012, to be near her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. She has worked in hospitals as a staff nurse, nursing instructor, hospital education director and information technology clinical analyst. She developed and coordinated several professional educational conferences and collaborated on community outreach programs. In addition to her current work with EPSMF, Ms. Fraser is active with UTEP’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) as a student, volunteer and member of its advisory board. Her personal history includes voice solo and choir participation. She nurtured her daughter’s love of music and singing and now enjoys her daughter’s choral directing within UTEP’s Department of Music.
Cheryl Tomczuk is a retried band director, flute and vocal performer, philanthropist, mentor and adjudicator with 33 years of educational tenure that included services in the El Paso Border Region middle schools, high schools, University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University. As a flutist, she has performed for several U.S. Presidents and with numerous other groups, including the El Paso Wind Symphony. She was nominated as one of the Grammy Educator 2022-2024 recipients and was appointed to the National Endowment for the Arts by President Joe Biden.
Victoria (Vikki) Schwarz (she/her) is an Austin-area musician working in church music (Berkeley UMC), elementary music (Austin ISD), and composition and arranging. She is the Music Director and Composer/Arranger for Diverse Dance Space Theatre (Heaven or Not, Trust, Genius, Home, Memoirs & Amours, Game Off Game On Game Over, A Change of Heart, Systema Axioma, Sprites & Spirits), Archive Theatre (Cyrano, Macbeth, A Sherlock Holmes Christmas, Raven-Winged Hours, Ghosts of Christmas Past [staged reading]), Austin Children’s Theatre (helping children write their own music), and Renaissance Theatre and Stage Austin (My Big Fat Bahookie, Far From Avalon, Not My Mother). She has also composed music for A Fat Search for Love (with Nina Huitt).
Wilma Salzman is a lifelong educator specializing in Music Education and Early Childhood Education. While in the classroom, she trained future teachers in techniques to make music an essential part of daily learning. Her presentations at clinics and in-service sessions took her across the state and the USA. Because of her interest in teaching English as a Second language, she founded Table Top Press which produced materials based on children’s songs for use by teachers in their classrooms. Now retired from teaching, she underwrites several scholarships for music students at UTEP.
Her current passion is El Paso Opera where she has been a long time Board Member now serving on the Advisory Board of Directors. Each year Wilma sponsors professional musicians in the El Paso Symphony and El Paso Pro-Musica. Any project involved in bringing music to her community is one that she will happily support.
The El Paso Society for Young Musicians with it’s various initiatives for pre-college students involved with music is dear to her heart having evolved from an organization formed in honor of her deceased husband Michael Salzman. He too was a Music Educator. EPSMF is dedicated to designing a variety of programs for talented and dedicated young musicians. Bringing classical music to the community in many ways is an extension of Wilma’s desire to enrich the lives of others through music.
