is a tenured Professor of Music at Viterbo University, and holds a B.A. in music education with emphases in piano/flute performance from the College of St. Scholastica, as well as M.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Piano Performance Practice from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.  She also holds certificates from the Diocesan School of Biblical Studies and St. Mary’s University (Pastoral Ministries).

In addition to teaching, Mary Ellen was Director of Music and Liturgy at Roncalli Newman Parish from 1998-2023. Her performing interests are almost exclusively in the realm of chamber music.  In the four-hand world, her collaborations with Timothy Schorr have included appearances at Washington University in St. Louis, The University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, Winona State University, the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen. 

Haupert was artistic director and founder of the One-of-a-Kind Chamber Music Series (2008-2018) and the Bonfire Summer Chamber Music Series (2018-2022); she currently directs and performs on Viterbo University’s Out-of-Our-Minds Chamber Music Series (2018-present).

She has recorded Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in B-flat Major, Op.  46 (comp. 1857-1858) and the Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, Op. 39 (comp. 1850-1855) with violinist Nancy Oliveros and cellist Kirsten Whitson in July, 2012, as well as (2014) Farrenc’s two piano trios, Opus 33 and 34 with Nancy Oliveros and cellist Laura Sewell, both on the CENTAUR LABEL.