Greenhoe Staff

Mitch Mally comes to our team with two decades of experience in the musical instrument manufacturing industry. From assembly to buffing, he has covered a multitude of processes with the Frank Holton Company, Badger State Repair and Allied Instrument Repair. Mitch is in charge of buffing procedures in our shop. He takes great pride in making our trombones “shine brightly”. His other interests include photography, model building, archaeology and reading.

Michael D. McLemore, a native of Grady, Arkansas, began his studies at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. In 1996, he completed a Master’s Degree in Trombone Performance from The University of Texas at Austin and has earned hours towards the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His teachers include: Wesley Branstine, Donald Knaub, Arnold Jacobs, Nathaniel Brickens, Charles Vernon, Edward Kleinhammer and Floyd Cooley. During the spring of 1997, Michael won the Donald Yaxley Bass Trombone Competition held by the International Trombone Association. Other awards include: Bass Trombonist for the 1997 Philadelphia Institute for Brass Studies and Solo Participant at the 1996 Harmony Ridge Brass Festival in Poultney, Vermont. Michael has performed with such groups as the Richardson Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Dallas Opera, Dallas Wind Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Green Bay Symphony, Illinois Symphony, and has toured nationally with the critically acclaimed Dallas Brass. Currently, Michael resides in West Bend, Wisconsin with his wife and their two sons. In addition to working at Greenhoe, Michael enjoys freelancing throughout the Mid-West and spending time with his sons. Michael’s wife, Elsa, works for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in the Computed Axial Tomography Department and graciously supports Michael’s trombone habits.

Nate Medsker grew up in Alaska, reading, listening to music, and wondering how things worked. He came to the Upper Midwest to attend college, and continued his pursuit of music, literature, and information of all kinds. In 2003, after completing a BA in Music at UW-Eau Claire, he prepared for a career in Band Instrument Repair through the program in Red Wing, MN. Much of his free time is spent with trombones, electric bass, bikes, and computers--often tinkering, more than using. Nate is a member of the National Association of Band Instrument Repair Technicians, the International Trombone Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Matthew Walker started playing trombone at age 9 in Dubbo, in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. He moved to Sydney to finish High School at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1985-86, and started a Bachelor of Music Degree in 1987. Before completing the BMus, however, Matthew won the Principal Bass Trombone position with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the Sydney Opera House. This position involved performances of operas on tenor, bass, and contra-bass trombones by composers such as R. Strauss, J. Strauss, Wagner, Mozart, Berg, Beethoven, Humperdinck, Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, Bellini, Britten, Sullivan, Bizet, Massenet, Donizetti, Delibes, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Offenbach, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Leoncavallo and Mascagni. Several world premieres by noted Australian composers have also been part of the repertoire. Matthew's involvement in the Sydney music scene has also included working with James and John Morrison in "Swing City Big Band," and various recording situations for film sound tracks, advertisement jingles and other assorted projects, such as the Australian National Anthem recording for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. As well as a busy playing schedule, Matthew has been running a very successful brass instrument repair business after having attended Red Wing Technical College in 1998-1999. This business venture has seen Matthew's client base extend to players from all professional orchestras in Australia, and numerous players from all styles of music-making where brass instruments are involved. Matthew brings with him an interest in developing other trombone models, such as an alto and a contra-bass, and resurrecting the Conn 78H.