Donald Sipe is founder and president of two arts companies: Omicron Artist Management and sonatabop.com, and active as a performer, producer and arranger. He is also co-founder - with Mike Dorau - of Innovation Artistry, a company that helps businesses and institutions with human performance, team work and strategic planning.
Founded in 1993, Omicron Artist Management, Inc. represents classical and jazz conductors, soloist, chamber ensembles, and composers. As President of OAM, Don Sipe is active in all aspects of career guidance for clients, and works with orchestras, presenters, venues, publishers, media and record companies world-wide on behalf of the Omicron roster. In 2000, Sipe launched sonatabop.com, a CD sales website dedicated to chamber music and small group jazz.
As a performer he has performed throughout the United States, Europe and South America. His most recent positions include Acting Associate Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Milwaukee Symphony, Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra and has performed as principal trumpet with the Syracuse Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Brass Band of Battle Creek.
His chamber music credits include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble, the Chicago Brass Quintet, The Milwaukee Brass Quintet, the Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble and the Summit Brass. His arrangements for brass quintet have been played by many brass quintets including Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet.
Sipe has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Air Force Heritage of America Band (with jazz trumpeter Marvin Stamm), the Waukesha Symphony, Present Music, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He has recorded with the Summit Brass, Present Music, the Milwaukee Symphony, Sones de Mexico and new age artist Peter Buffit. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and South America working with a wide range of luninaries including Leonard Bernstein, Doc Severisen, Aretha Franklin and Bob Newhart.
He has taught at Carthage College, is a regular coach of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony and participates in the nationally lauded ACE (Arts in Community Education) program. He is the former Co-principal trumpet of the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, where he worked with the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and has participated in several summer music festivals, including Tanglewood, Spoleto, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, the Peninsula Music Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Keystone, CO.
Sipe earned his Bachelor and Master's degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where he studied trumpet with Barbara Butler. He lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife Jennifer Startt, Principal Second violinist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and their daughter Emmeline Rose.
The Milwaukee Brass Quintet
Present Music
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra