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Mike Telin received his musical training at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, and made his living as a bassoonist for more than a decade. From 1990 through 2004, he served as executive director of Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio, managing that organization’s incorporation as a 501 (c) (3) organization, raising a $500,000 endowment and designing and executing a number of major projects including a Community Development Initiative, an International Opera Project in cooperation with the Ohio Arts Council, Oberlin Conservatory and the Instituto of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and helped obtain a $1 million US 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 US Tour of Tango Orquesta El Arranque (Buenos Aires) and co-produced the first annual Resonance: a World Music Festival (Cleveland).

He has served on grant review panels for the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, as a board member and co-chair 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 co-taught a Public Interest Research course with Mark Mattern in the Political Science Department at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and co-authored 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.

In addition to his activities with Latitude 45, Telin is president of Telin International Arts, and development officer for Tango Via in Buenos Aires, Argentina.