She has also served on a church vestry, including time spent as both Registrar and Senior Warden. Maki works processing medical records at the University of Michigan hospital. Musically, he is a choir director at a Lutheran Church in Tecumseh, has sung in community choirs and a barbershop chorus, as well as playing the piano “poorly indeed.” Mrs. Kirk is a Principal Innovation Engineer for a company involved with creating new packaging and project management of new technology. Maki have been long time enjoyers and supporters of R4. Kirk and Lisa Maki, Treasurer and Secretary Hayes has composed two original works for the River Raisin Ragtime Revue and has restored or created over eighty orchestrations for the ensemble. His Exodus, Suite Exodus for jazz trio and orchestra was performed by the Chicago Chamber Orchestra in 2002. He has written both for educational instruction and personal artistic expression. Hayes is a noted and published composer and arranger. Hayes was presented with an award from the City of Cadillac for his outstanding commitment to community service. Encouraging beginning young players, retirees, educators and professionals to work together, this orchestra grew in numbers from seventeen to sixty-five, and in 1992 Mr. Hayes has served as music director for the Cadillac Area Symphony Orchestra, where he often re-orchestrated works to fit the demands of his players’ varying skill levels. This organization earned the Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Educational Endeavors Award. Hayes also helped form the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra and became its first music director, a position he still holds. This program was noted for its excellence by the Governor of Michigan. He created the Music Masters program for the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, which partners retired string players and teachers with students for one-on-one mentoring. Hayes is an active promoter of the arts in his community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the River Raisin Ragtime Revue. He has taught music at all levels from kindergarten through college, and is a retired music teacher and lecturer from the Ypsilanti (MI) public school district. He received his Bachelor of Music Education from Southern Illinois University and his Master of Music from Western Illinois University. William Hayes is a retired music educator residing in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Pemberton’s leadership, TAHS was awarded an Institutional Achievement Award from the Michigan Museums Association. In 2001, he served as project director for the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. He was responsible for the development of numerous exhibitions and outreach programs that greatly enhanced TAHS’s visibility and reputation among the community. Pemberton has also served as President of the Tecumseh Area Historical Society (TAHS), where he oversaw that organization’s growth in membership, endowment and community arts and humanities programming. He has produced eight reference recordings with R4 that have received national and international critical acclaim. Pemberton has overseen the recreation of music for The Henry Ford Museum’s Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition 100th anniversary celebration and developed programming for schools, community audiences and prestigious cultural venues. Pemberton is a scholar and collector of ragtime music and history and helps maintain R4’s extensive collection of vintage orchestrations, piano sheet music, and original source materials. He has also performed as R4’s tuba player. William Pemberton resides in Tecumseh, MI and is cofounder and former music director of the River Raisin Ragtime Revue. The River Raisin Ragtime Revue, or R4, is a 13-piece orchestra that educates and entertains audiences of all ages through the performance and preservation of the 20th century's exuberant original style of popular music.William Pemberton, Chair and Executive Director Although still in his 20s, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920's and making them wish they could stay there for good. Daniel Washington is currently Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre, and Dance and enjoys a distinguished career that brings him to the world’s major opera houses and concert stages. The program consists of beautiful spirituals, joyous ragtime, poignant African American popular song and early blues and jazz tunes. Special guest and rising blues star Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton will join the party, making his Ann Arbor debut. Talent abounds as celebrated bass-baritone opera singer Daniel Washington partners with the acclaimed River Raisin Ragtime Revue orchestra to celebrate the release of their new album.
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