Manager of Operations & Communications
Erik Salzwedel
erik@moravianmusic.org
336-725-0651 ext. 4
Erik Salzwedel, Manager of Operations & Communications, creates and manages communications for MMF, including newsletters, E-News, calendars, the website, social media and audio/video recordings, as well as the marketing and publicity for all concerts, events, classes, workshops, and festivals. He manages event and class registrations and concert ticketing. He supports the staff and Board in the areas of data and reporting, fundraising, event planning and execution, program planning, and other projects.
Erik is the store manager and processes both online and walk-in sales. He can help you with your purchase of Moravian Star Anthems and requests from the Lending Library.
MMF Communications
The overall aim of all communications is to inform our constituents and stakeholders about the work of the Foundation, inspire them to participate in musical and educational opportunities, and engage them in a partnership to support MMF’s mission and purpose.
- Moravian Music Foundation Newsletter: The Moravian Music Foundation issues a Newsletter, Musical Moments, posted and shared as an in eNewsletter (electronic media) in the late winter/ early spring to cover events and concerts happening spring and early summer. A second issue is printed and mailed in late summer to cover events in the fall and through the holidays. Musical Moments includes longer form articles, research, photos and reports from past events, messages from staff, spotlight on musicians or donors, and information on events and concerts with the aim still being to drive readers to the website for further information or to the ticket portal or giving portal to complete a transaction.
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- E-News / Email Newsletter: A monthly e-newsletter is sent to all known email addresses of stakeholders. Mailchimp is the platform and removes addresses that no longer receive email or those that opt out. This email list may be segmented by geography, Festival participants, trustees, etc. or by tags. SIGN UP on the form at the bottom of this page.
- Social Media: MMF maintains a Facebook page for the Foundation, and Facebook pages for Moramus Chorale, Unitas Chorale, and each Festival, and posts all related activities and news.
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- YouTube: MMF maintains two robust YouTube Channels, for Foundation and Festival, and posts video of lectures, webinars, educational material, concerts, and music video.
- Websites: MMF maintains two websites, one for the Foundation and one for Festivals. The Signal Company is the webhost and helps customize the theme. MMF staff create and post all content and design the webpages and posts. The primary portal for information is the website, and it serves all constituencies, including, but not limited to, donors, corporations, foundations, audience, musicians, educators, music directors, composers/arrangers, publishers, presenters, researchers, teachers, students, and visitors. In addition to programs and events of MMF, the website calendar of events lists all Moravian music-related events of outside organizations and churches.
- Interprovincial Board of Communication: MMF works closely with the Interprovincial Board of Communication, with primary office in Bethlehem, on audio/video projects, communication of news, and articles for the Moravian magazine which is sent periodically to every household of Moravian membership in North America.
- Provincial and District Announcements: Moravian music news, relevant to all Moravians is shared directly with Provincial contacts for dissemination, as appropriate to their constituents.
- MMF staff may be contacted by phone or by email. See the Foundation Staff page.
Erik composes and arranges music, and handles many of the transposing, arranging needs of the Foundation, the Chorales, and constituents. He is involved in the editing and printing of sheet music and anthems and making them available online.
A prolific composer and arranger, Erik strives to create appropriate, worshipful music for instruments and voices. While the majority of his compositions are for trombone & organ, or various combinations of brass, he has also written 25 pieces for handbells, several organ chorale preludes, and a few choral anthems.
A Moravian bandsman since the moment he buzzed into his first trombone in 6th grade (with the help of Denny Fordham), Erik was guided, early on, by Sandy Poindexter, and studied with Ron Borror (American Brass Quintet, NY City Ballet Orch., American Symphony) at UNC School of the Arts and Stony Brook University (SUNY). His playing and approach to the bass trombone were heavily influenced by Jeff Reynolds (Downey Moravian Trombone Choir, Los Angeles Philharmonic).
Erik has been Bass Trombonist of the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, since 1986.
Erik is a former Hussite Bell Ringer and is director of the Gregor BellChor at Home Moravian Church. He is assistant director of the Home Church Band.
in Wait Chapel
Winston-Salem, NC
Prior to joining MMF, Erik was Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations at UNC School of the Arts; Executive Director of Arts United for Davidson County (Lexington); and held various management positions with the Greensboro and Winston-Salem symphonies (Personnel Mgr, Production Mgr, Librarian, Education Director).
Service to the Church is part of Erik’s heritage: his father, grandfather, and three uncles are/were Moravian ministers, as are three of his cousins.
Salzwedel and his wife, Mary Elen Kollman, live near Bethabara in Winston-Salem; they are members of Home Moravian Church. Erik is the proud father of two amazing daughters, Hannah and Eve.
Erik plays Hosannah by Franz Liszt with Sara Montgomery at Raleigh Moravian Church, Raleigh, NC
Jill Gardner, soprano & Erik Salzwedel, trombone
