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Salt Creek Sinfonietta

Meet the Board
Gilbert
Demange - President
Gil was elected President of the Salt Creek Sinfonietta in 2003. He earned
a medical degree from Loyola University. He also has an Executive Masters in
Business Administration from Northern Illinois University. He has served on
various for-profit and non-profit Boards. He is a former director of Lyons
Savings and Loan Association. He is a past President of West Suburban Serra
Club in Oak Park, Illinois and of the West Towns Community Nursing Service in
Berwyn, Illinois. Most recently he was Executive Vice-President of MPD, Inc.,
an international student survey organization serving parochial schools.
Louis F.
Parker, Treasurer
Lou has played oboe with the
Sinfonietta since the 1997-1998 season. A systems analyst with System
Sensor Inc. of St. Charles, Illinois, he divides his time between
computer programming, teaching music and officiating ice hockey games in
the Chicago Metropolitan Area. He has performed with symphony
orchestras in Oak Park, Illinois, Columbia, Missouri, Rochester,
Minnesota, Aurora, Illinois, and Greensboro, North Carolina, is a
charter member of woodwind quintet, Quintessence, and has enjoyed
contributing ecumenically and musically to several churches in the Fox
Valley for nearly thirty years.
Gary A. Greene, Secretary
Gary Greene holds degrees in music
education and musicology and has played horn with the Salt Creek Sinfonietta
since 1999. Dr. Greene now also serves as the program annotator for the
Sinfonietta. He brings to the board a significant experience in the management
of music ensembles. He served as the Reference Specialist/Librarian for the
American Symphony Orchestra League, 1987-1988, and he has sat on a number of
music boards, principally the Monroe [LA] Symphony Orchestra Board of Governors, 1988-1998,
and the Danville [IL] Municipal Band, 1980-1983 (President, 1982-1983). On the
Monroe Board, his primarily committee assignments were the Artistic Advisory,
Conductor Search (Chair), and KEDM Liaison (Chair) Committees.
Amee Falbo, Director
Amee Falbo joined the Salt Creek Sinfonietta Board in 2007.
She received a Juris Doctor degree from the
University
of Southern California
law school and has a Bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Notre
Dame. She was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 2006. She currently
works for Addison-Clifton, an international trade consulting firm in Chicago.
Amee has played the violin for 20 years and has performed in various
school and community orchestras, including the Milwaukee Youth Symphony
Orchestra and the Notre Dame Symphony.
Florence Naprstek,
Director
Florence Naprstek was born in Wheaton, Illinois and grew up in Melrose Park,
Illinois where she began playing at the age of ten in class lessons. She loved
playing the violin so much that she gave up private piano lessons to take violin
lessons which she continued through high school, studying with Ann Crane, of the
Chicago Conservatory of Music. During her junior year, she auditioned with the
newly formed Youth Orchestra of Greater Chicago, which now is known as the
Chicago Youth Symphony. It was her first exposure to "real" symphonic music.
She continued her lessons at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago
and also played in the Civic Orchestra while working on her degree which she
earned in violin performance, studying with Scott Willits. She taught private
violin lessons for ten years until she took time off to raise a family.
When she started to play seriously again, she joined the Hinsdale Chamber
Orchestra for eight years, followed by the DuPage Symphony, the Salt Creek
Sinfonietta and the Senior Suburban Orchestra in which she currently plays.
Barbara Saks, Director
Barbara
Saks earned degrees in music education from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
and Northwestern University. She has been the band director at Park View School
in Morton Grove for the past 20 years. She still finds it very exciting to be
able to introduce the instruments and music to her students! Barbara plays
flute and piccolo in the Salt Creek Sinfonetta. She plays in both professional
and community musical productions throughout the Chicagoland area. She is also
a member of the Sounds of Silver jazz flute quartet. During the
summers Barbara performs in the Wheaton Municipal Band.
Barbara
Walters, Director
Barbara Walters joined the Salt Creek
Sinfonietta’s Board in 2005 after serving as Business Manager of the DuPage
Symphony Orchestra for seven years. She has also served as President of its
Board of Directors plus Secretary, Treasurer and President of the DuPage
Symphony Guild. While acting as Roundtable Commissioner for Cub Scouts, she
also ran Cub Scout Day Camp for the DuPage Area Council, serving 3,500 Cubs
each year.
Her career began as a violinist, but changed
to viola in high school during Allstate at the University of Nebraska.
After attending Elmhurst College, she was accepted into the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Her major was viola performance with a
minor in piano. She auditioned as one of the first (of three) women
accepted into the Chicago Business Men's Symphony.
Currently, Barbara is playing with the
College of DuPage Orchestra, Salt Creek Sinfonietta, DuPage Symphony, East
Meets West (a Chinese Orchestra from Naperville) and several quartets. She
actively plays in Baker Church in St. Charles.

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