Erik J. Salzwedel | Moravian Music Foundation

Manager of Operations & Communications

Erik Salzwedel
Operations Manager

Erik Salzwedel, Manager of Operations & Communications, handles most of the communications for MMF, including newsletters, E-News, calendars, the website, social media and videography. He supports the staff and Board in the areas of budgeting/financial planning, data and reporting, fundraising, grantsmanship, event planning, program planning, and other projects.
Erik arranges and edits music, often leads tours and provides or assists with educational programs and content.

erik@moravianmusic.org
336-725-0651

25th Moravian Music Festival,
Winston-Salem, NC

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.

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 24 pieces for handbells.

Morgenstern by Ernst Julius Otto. Nola Knouse, soprano, Erik Salzwedel, trombone, and Bill Osborne, piano.

Morgenstern by Ernst Julius Otto – audio from 2017 Moravian Music Festival
Jill Gardner, soprano & Erik Salzwedel, trombone

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 (UNCSA, Stony Brook Univ., American Brass Quintet, NY City Ballet Orch., American Symphony). 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.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 4:00pm Home Moravian Church, Winston Salem, NC. Jonathan Sidden, Glenn Siebert, David Tayloe with Susan Keck Foster on piano, Nola Reed Knouse on flute and Erik Salzwedel on trombone.

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; they are members of Home Moravian Church. Erik is the proud father of two amazing daughters, Hannah and Eve.

The 60th Anniversary of the Moravian Music Foundation

Moravian Music History Lecture at the New Winston Museum

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.