About
Monadnock Music Board of Trustees
David Sturm - President
Liz Newcombe - Vice President
Tonya Marshall - Secretary
Michael Dell’Orto
Lundy Lewis
Paul Venezia
Michael G. Dell'Orto is an actor, writer, and director who holds an M.F.A. in Directing from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (the Union of professional theatre actors and stage managers) and SAG-AFTRA (the Union for professionals in film, TV, radio and other media). He served for twelve years as Actors’ Equity’s Area Liaison for New England. Michael has made his home in New Hampshire since 1979, and since 1985 has lived in Wilton Center, where he volunteers at the Historical Society and is the current Chair of the Wilton Heritage Commission. He is a co-author of the book Wilton, Temple and Lyndeborough, part of the Arcadia Publishing series Images of America. He has worked as an actor and director at theatres throughout New England and beyond, and has done work in films, TV, radio drama, and interactive home video. He is married to the happily retired Jacqueline Kahle, and their daughter, Sarah Dell’Orto, is a Senior Project Director at Advance NYC, an arts development consulting firm.
Dr. Lundy Lewis is a Professor at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches courses in Digital Music, Social Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation. Lundy has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Georgia and an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is an inventor with 37 US patents and an author of three technical books on telecommunications management. He founded four startup companies in computer networking and artificial intelligence. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Christos and Mary Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics and Social Responsibility. Since 1993 Lundy has lived in Mason NH. He is a patron of Monadnock Music, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Peterborough Players. Lundy has a passion for many types of music and enjoys concerts and playing guitar and piano. He paid for much of college by playing in various bands.
Liz Newcombe is a financial advisor with over 8 yrs of experience, serving a variety of clients in the community. She also works as a realtor for the Masiello Group, and is the mom of two amazing kids. They keep her busy with soccer and dance events! She is from Keene originally, but has lived in various places around the country and internationally before she came back to settle in New Hampshire in 2017. She has coached youth soccer, is active in her Church community, and loves to hike, run, and attempt to keep plants alive.
Liz has attended many MM events since she returned to NH, and is excited to be a part of a non-profit which brings so much culture and joy to the community. Her son is very musically inclined, which has brought her to appreciate all that Monadnock Music does even more as she tries to expose him to more opportunities for listening and appreciating beautiful music. Music is transformational, and is exactly what we need more of in this world, today more than ever!
David Sturm is a business and estate-planning attorney. He lives in an antique home in Mont Vernon with his wife and law partner Sheila and their two dogs, Lily and Henry. Born in England, he grew up in Indiana and has lived in New Hampshire for over thirty years. He lived in the Burlington, Vermont area and worked for IBM as an engineer, before attending law school at Cornell Law School. He loves New Hampshire and has no plans to leave.
He enjoys nearly all musical genres and exploring new-to-him music, especially world and ethnic traditions. The victim of piano lessons early in his childhood, he plans to resume lessons and enjoy it this time! Now, however, he spins a mean record.
In addition to serving as a Trustee of Monadnock Music, David is very active with the Milford Rotary Club, serves as town moderator for Mont Vernon, and is involved in other civic and charitable organizations.
David enjoys mountaineering, hiking, biking, skiing in all forms, reading, traveling, hanging with his pups, and enjoying Sheila’s culinary prowess. He has participated in many road and trail running races and has completed about two dozen triathlons, including an Ironman and a handful of half-Ironman distance races. His super power is telling jokes.
Paul Venezia is a computing and internetworking infrastructure architect, writer, music producer, and a multi-instrumentalist musician. He grew up in Keene, NH, in a home where classical music was playing continuously. His father has exceptionally deep knowledge and a profound love of the genre, and passed on that love of music.
He is Vice President, Engineering at Xperi, a California company, where he designs global computing infrastructures to deliver music and audio content and data to automotive and mobile applications. Over the years, this work has taken him to far corners of the planet, but he primarily works from home.
A professional musician since the age of 16, he has toured the world and played as a sideman to several regional artists and groups in Boston and greater New England. He lives in Keene with his daughter Isabella, and currently plays in several groups in the area, as well as recording and producing music in his studio.
