Bridges MAYO Staff and Board
Bridges MAYO Directors
Esteban Hernández Parra
Bridges MAYO Board Elect
Maggie Olivo
Program Director
Wei-Chung Chen
Bridges MAYO Philharmonic Director
Chase Remsburg
Bridges MAYO Chamber Director
Bridges MAYO Board
Our Bridges MAYO Board is made up musicians, artists, and active community members within Bloomington, IN. Our board members contribute in a variety of ways: volunteering their talents, organizing fundraisers, connecting to the greater Bloomington community, administering fiscal decisions, donating funds, and advocating for our community's musical needs.
Esteban Hernández Parra
President
A little bit about our Bridges MAYO President:
Esteban finds joy in sharing sounds and our interactions around them. He became a musician thanks to his mother’s passion for education, his father's dedication as an instrumentalist, his partner’s love for ethnomusicology, and the generosity of his students, family, cats, teachers, friends, and colleagues. Esteban learns with his students in Indiana, Colombia (where he is from), Kenya, and the Dominican Republic, collaborating with organizations like Bridges MAYO, Tunaweza Kimuziki, Filarmónica Joven de Colombia, Cheerful Heart, IU String Academy, and the Monroe and Bartholomew Counties School Corporations.
He studies viola with his father, Ricardo Hernández Mayorga, and professors Aníbal Dos Santos, Stephen Wyrczynski, Stanley Ritchie, Karen Ritscher, and Mark Holloway. Esteban is earning a doctorate in viola performance with a music education minor at the IU Jacobs School of Music and researches about decolonial practices in string ensembles. He serves as principal viola of THSO and assistant principal of CIP, also making part of the IU Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste and the Efferus String Quartet.
Sean Burdette
Julia Driscoll
Alissa Guntren
Andrea Kleesattel
Amelia López López
Stephanie Slotven
Andrew Wood Polk
