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GLCO is looking for volunteers to join our ever-growing team for the upcoming 2023-2024 season! From concert ushers, to event setup and everything in between – we need your help!  You’ll join a group of individuals who donate their time, expertise and special skills to help make the organization stronger. Volunteer opportunities include:

Event Staffing

  • Ticket Sales
  • Ushering
  • Receptions

Office Assistance

  • Answer phones and take ticket orders
  • Help with mailings
  • Data entry

Distribute Literature

  • Hang posters in business windows in your area
  • Coordinate a group of volunteers to hang posters throughout surrounding communities
  • Hand deliver rack cards to appropriate venues

Computer Assistance

  • Help create an improved database
  • Provide a variety of hardware and software expertise

Provide In-Kind Services (some examples)

  • Graphic design expertise
  • Photography
  • Videography

For more information about these and other volunteering opportunities, please contact us at 231.487.0010 or in**@**********ra.org

Entertainment.   Education.   Inspiration.

219 East Lake Street, Petoskey, MI 49770
PHONE (231) 487-0010 EMAIL in**@**********ra.org

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To inspire, entertain and educate through live, professional, community-connected orchestral programming.

 

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Eric Lawson

Assistant Concertmaster

Violinist, violist, conductor and professor Dr. Eric Lawson has had a varied career in performance and education. Past performances as a conductor, soloist and lecturer have taken him to Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, Romania and Scandinavia. Before returning to his home state of Michigan, he was based in North Dakota where, in addition to serving as a violin instructor at Bismarck State College, Jamestown College, and the University of Mary, he was also concertmaster of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and established the Bismarck-Mandan Youth Symphony. Other former academic appointments have included Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Central College in Pella, Iowa and the University of North Dakota where he founded the string program and the UND Chamber Orchestra.

Here in Michigan, Dr. Lawson as been very active with the Alpena Symphony Orchestra as its concertmaster, conductor and president of the board. He also performs with many other orchestras in Northern Michigan and participates in the Traverse Symphony as a first violinist, in the Gaylord Symphony as concertmaster and as assistant concertmaster in the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra.

And finally, in what has been one of the most important experiences of his life outside of music, he also served almost four years as an Alpena County Commissioner, representing Ossineke and Sanborn Townships. In addition to serving as chair of the Salary and Personnel Committee, he also served on the Airport, Ambulance, District Court, Circuit Court Management and Jail Committees. He also represented Alpena County in Gaylord with the Northern Michigan Regional Entity Substance Use Disorder Board and continues to serve on the Northeast Michigan Community Mental Health Board. Dr. Lawson resides in Ossineke with his wife and two children.