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 Sandy Cummings is a native of Eugene and a graduate of Lane Community College. She began in the accounting field in 1991 and has worked at the Festival since 1998. In her free time, she enjoys wake-boarding, traveling, going to the beach, and caring for her silver Audi TT.
 Nabiha Doolittle grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and has a Bachelors Degree in business. She has family and friends all over the world and has enjoyed her travels in her earlier years, and settling in Oregon in the end. She enjoys traveling and catching up with family and friends.
 Elin England was born in New Hampshire and graduated from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Art History. She and her husband have put down deep roots in their organic farm in Pleasant Hill, specializing in the cultivation of garlic, chickens, and children. When not orchestrating the arrival and departure of each year’s crop of Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy participants, or keeping the Executive Director in order, she can be found quietly contemplating her newest hooked rug or happily digging potatoes in the garden. Elin has also written a cookbook on the subject of local, seasonal eating, entitled Eating Close to Home: A Guide to Local, Seasonal Sustenance.
 George Evano grew up in New Jersey, went to college in West Virginia, and after jobs in radio and newspaper went to work in the arts in San Francisco. He joined the Oregon Bach Festival in late 1992 and still has the ticket stub from his first OBF concert, Haydn’s The Seasons. Festival communications materials that George has produced have received Summit, Telly, and International Graphics Competition awards, and he has presented for numerous seminars and classes including the Arts Presenters National Conference in New York. Away from the office he enjoys soccer, saxophone, and silliness with his wife and two teenage sons.
 Kate Feeney grew up in upstate New York before moving with her family to Colorado (the “wild west”) at the age of 10. Kate returned to New York and received her BA from Colgate University before launching her initial career as a professional stage manager. She is a card-carrying member of Actors’ Equity Association and has worked as a stage manager at numerous regional theatres including the Denver Center Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, and PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria and Solvang, CA. Kate began her second career, in fundraising, at the University of Oregon and has worked for the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the College of Education. Kate joined the Bach Festival in 2011.
 Dave Goudy comes to OBF after a decade of arts management in Texas, most recently, with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. He has played cello for 30 years with a music degree from the University of Miami in Florida. In Texas, he conducted a community orchestra, taught privately, and served as a clinician for school orchestra programs. Away from the OBF, he plays recorder and avidly follows sports.
 Patrick Hosfield came to Oregon from the east coast because he was assured it is always sunny and dry in the Willamette Valley. He has a AB in English from Harvard and a Master of Music in conducting from Rutgers, and has performed as a singer and conductor throughout the New York and Boston areas. He has previously worked in administrative positions at Carnegie Hall, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the American Repertory Theatre; he has also been an English tutor, an arcade-game repairman, a published travel writer, and lots of other strange jobs. He enjoys cooking, hiking, backpacking, and sleeping in. He is originally from New Jersey.
 Lauren Pinchin was born in Portland, OR and received a Bachelor of Arts in history and psychology from the University of Washington. Prior to the Oregon Bach Festival, she worked for Carnival Cruise Lines as an Assistant Cruise Director coordinating events and activities as well as managing the onboard entertainment department. Lauren’s work on cruise ships took her all over the world, as she has visited over 35 countries and 5 continents. Most recently, she spent a year living in England, working in the party & event planning industry. In her free time she enjoys crocheting, baking, running and movie dates with her husband, a professional musician and current law school student at the University of Oregon.
 Deidre Sandvick grew up in Tokyo, Japan and holds a MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her career spans work at both performing and visual art organizations including Christie’s Auction House, City Ballet of San Diego, and eight years at the renowned San Diego Opera. She has over 15 years of fundraising experience. In 2006, she moved to Eugene with her family and has worked at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art for the past three years. Deidre joined the Oregon Bach Festival in 2011.
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