Mary Ellen Haupert

Mary Ellen Haupert spreads her musical abilities between her roles as Music Director for Roncalli Newman Parish and as a tenured Professor of Music at Viterbo University, both in La Crosse, Wisconsin.   Her performing interests are almost exclusively in the realm of chamber music. In the four-hand world, her collaborations with Timothy Schorr have included appearances at Washington University in St. Louis, The University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, Winona State University, the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen. She enjoys an ongoing relationship with violinist Nancy Oliveros and the Artaria String Quartet. Their frequent duo and piano quintet collaborations have become a staple of Viterbo University’s One-of-a kind chamber music series (for which Haupert is both founder and artistic director), as well as performances at Hamline University’s Sundin Hall Chamber Series, the Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concert Series in St. Paul, MN, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen.   She has recorded Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in B-flat Major, Op.  46 (comp. 1857-1858) and the Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, Op. 39 (comp. 1850-1855) with violinist Nancy Oliveros and cellist Kirsten Whitson in July, 2012, as well as Farrenc’s two piano trios, Opus 33 and 34 with Nancy Oliveros and cellist Laura Sewell.