Executive Director and Founder of the Madeline Island Music Camp, received his B.F.A. summa cum lauda and M.M. degrees in piano performance at the University of Minnesota where he was a student of Bernhard Weiser. A regular performer with members of the Music Camp faculty including the principal players of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra during the first 10 years of the Camp, Mr. George now focuses on working with the Board of Directors to raise money, recruit students and manage the Camp’s finances and real estate. Since its founding in 1986, Mr. George has developed the Music Camp from a one-week chamber music program for 20 students from Minnesota and Wisconsin to a six- week program of intensive music study and performance for young string players and pianists, woodwind players and amateur adult musicians. Up to 100 students study each year at the Music Camp and come from throughout the United States and several foreign countries. Mr. George has raised over 2 million dollars to fund the development of a 10 acre campus which includes three cottage-style dormitories housing up to 50 students, nine ensemble and twelve solo practice rooms. Mr. George guided the purchase and remodeling of the former Dillon O’Brien Center renamed the Mary Lange Music Center, which serves as the Camp’s administrative center, student cafeteria and lounge, music library and concert box office and the renovation of The Clubhouse which was gifted to the Camp in 2001 by the Camp’s founding benefactor Mary Rice.
Thomas George
