Oberlin

Daniel Hathaway

Daniel Hathaway served as music director at Cleveland's Trinity Cathedral from 1977 to 2008. He launched a second career as founder and editor of ClevelandClassical.com, which went online in September of 2008 with the mission of covering classical music throughout Northeast Ohio.

Hathaway studied musicology at Harvard College and Princeton University. He was the first undergraduate to be appointed assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, with whom he toured around the world in 1967. At Harvard, he was conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra, and later studied orchestral conducting with Leon Barzin at Tanglewood.

In Cleveland, he also served as music director for Great Lakes Theater Festival and assistant chorus master for Cleveland Opera.

Teaching positions have included The Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City (Coordinator of Humanities), Groton School in Massachusetts (Head of Arts) and Laurel School in Cleveland (Head of Upper School Music).

Donald Rosenberg

Donald Rosenberg is former music critic of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, The Pittsburgh Press and the Akron Beacon Journal. He received degrees in French horn performance from the Mannes College of Music in New York and the Yale School of Music. He was a participant in the Aspen and Marlboro music festivals. His articles and reviews have appeared in Gramophone, Symphony Magazine, Opera News, Opera (London), NPR Music, Early Music Magazine, Listen Magazine, the Yale Alumni Magazine, and many newspapers and journals. He is the author of The Cleveland Orchestra Story: “Second to None." He served four terms as president of the Music Critics Association of North America, and is a member of the committee developing the association’s web journal, Classical Voice North America. In addition to Oberlin College, he has taught in Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program.

Mike Telin

Mike Telin has been Executive Editor of ClevelandClassical.com since 2009.

Telin received his musical training at the Oberlin Conservatory and made his living as a bassoonist for more than a decade.

From 1990 through 2004, he was executive director of Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Inc. in Cleveland, designing community based arts projects and helping obtain a $1 million US Department of Health and Human Services grant to incorporate the arts into an HIV and STD prevention program for At Risk Youth.

Telin has served on grant review panels for the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.

In addition to Oberlin, Telin has co-taught Public Interest Research at Baldwin Wallace University and co-authored papers with Dr. Mark Mattern presented at the Midwest Political Science, American Political Science, Urban Affairs Association, and Social Theory, Politics and the Arts conferences in Boston, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio.