Biography
Mike Telin received his musical training at 91Ö±²¥ Conservatory and made his living as a bassoonist for more than a decade. From 1990 through 2004, he served as executive director of Music and Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral Inc. in Cleveland, managing the organization’s incorporation as a 501(c)(3), and raising a $500,000 endowment. He also designed and executed a number of major projects including a Community Development Initiative, an International Opera Project in cooperation with the Ohio Arts Council, 91Ö±²¥ Conservatory of Music, and the Instituto of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Additionally, he helped obtain a $1 million U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant to incorporate the arts into an HIV- and STD-prevention program for at-risk youth in Cleveland.
He produced the first U.S. Tour of Tango Orquesta El Arranque (Buenos Aires) and coproduced the first Resonance: a World Music Festival (Cleveland), now an annual event.
He has served on grant-review panels for the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, as a board member and cochair for the annual conference of the Ohio Arts Presenters Network, and as a member of the planning committee for the Arts Midwest Annual Booking Conference in Cleveland.
Telin has cotaught a public-interest research course with Mark Mattern in the political science department at Baldwin Wallace University and coauthored a number of papers with Mattern 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.
