ABOUT MIKE SCHMENK

Mike Schmenk is the director of the St. Mary's Children's Choir.

Mike was born in Sandusky and raised in Cincinnati. A very active music student in high school, he was awarded scholarship to pursue a Bachelor of Music Education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He graduated in 1991 and later obtained a Masters of Music Education also from Miami. In 2000, Mike and his wife Ronda, moved to Sandusky. He joined the music teaching staff at Sandusky City Schools and currently teaches at Osborne and Mills elementary schools.

Mike has been an active member of the area music community. He has worked with Huron, Margaretta, Perkins, and Sandusky school band programs, performed with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, played for St. Mary's Christmas and Easter Masses, taught private music lessons and played for the Sandusky Central Catholic School's spring musical. This is Michael's second time working with the St.Mary's Children's Choir. Mike and Ronda have two young girls and also run Kindermusik with the Schmenks, a music and movement program for children newborn to age seven.