James Sodke

Pianist James Sodke earned the BFA in Music Education from UW-Milwaukee, and is Associate Lecturer at UW-Parkside. He is the co-director of Lakeshore Conservatory of Music, the Director of Music at St Michael’s Church in Racine Wisconsin, and is an editor, arranger, and engraver for Hal Leonard Publishing. He has appeared with the national tours of: Dancin’, Zorba, Camelot, Chorus Line, Stop the World, the Rockettes, SouthPacific, Grease, 42nd St., Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight, The Moody Blues, The Mills Brothers, The Temptations, The Drifters, Danny and the Jrs. and Little Anthony. He has accompanied jazz greats Stanley Jordan, The Dorsey Band, and Dianne Schuur, and performed with The Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras, the Milwaukee Civic and Chamber Orchestras, and Present Music. He has been a clinician/guest artist for the Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Cudahy, Wausau, and Bowler public schools, and the Rhythm section clinician for Wisconsin Honors Jazz Band.