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About the Center
Board of Directors
Staff
Funders
American Music Center Board of Directors 1996-97

John Luther Adams (Fairbanks, AK)
Composer, radio producer. Vice President of Board
jla@artswire.org

Dwight Andrews (Atlanta, GA)
Composer, saxophonist, Professor, Emory University

Milton Babbitt (Princeton, NJ)
Composer (Honorary Board Member)

Anthony Brown (Berkeley, CA)
Composer, percussionist, scholar Director, Jazz Oral History Program, Smithsonian Museum
ANTNYBROWN@aol.com

Elliott Carter (Waccabuc, NY)
Composer (Honorary Board Member)

Ron Carter (New York, NY)
Composer, bassist, Distinguished Professor, CUNY

Gloria Cheng (Los Angeles, CA
Pianist, principal keyboard, Long Beach Symphony, Founding member of XTET
GlorCh@aol.com

Janet Cowperthwaite (San Francisco, CA)
Managing Director, Kronos Quartet
kronos@kronos.xo.com

Randall Davidson (Minneapolis, MN)
Composer, former President, Minnesota Composers Forum. President of Board
davidson@boysartmusic.com

Marcia Dickstein (Los Angeles, CA)
Harpist, founder and member of Debussy Trio
http://www.amc.net/amc/member/Marcia_Dickstein/home.html

Paul Dresher (Berkeley, CA)
Composer, Artistic Director of the Paul Dresher Ensemble

Susan Feder (New York, NY)
Vice President, Director of Promotion, G. Schirmer

Sylvia Goldstein (New York, NY)
Attorney, Consultant, Boosey & Hawkes

Lou Harrison (Aptos, CA)
Composer (Honorary Board Member)

Mrs. Ernest Heller (New York, NY)
Patron (Honorary Board Member)

Willard Jenkins (Rockville, MD)
Consultant, journalist, broadcaster

Laura Kaminsky (Chester, NJ)
Composer, co-founder and Artistic Director of new music ensemble Musicians' Accord

James Kendrick (New York, NY)
Attorney, Thacher Proffitt & Wood

Jonathan Kramer (New York, NY)
Composer, writer, Professor, Columbia University

Laura Kuhn (Phoenix, AZ)
Musicologist, writer Assistant Professor, Cultural History, Arizona State University West. Secretary of Board

Janis Lane-Ewart (Minneapolis, MN)
Consultant, former Director, Training Programs, Arts Midwest

George Lewis (La Jolla, CA)
Composer, trombonist, Professor, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego
glewis@ucsd.edu
http://csmaclab-www.cs.uchicago.edu/
AACM/MEMBERbio/george_lewis_bio.html

http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/musicdept/htmls/lewis.html
http://crca-www.ucsd.edu/95_96/FACULTY/george.html

Edwin London (Cleveland, OH)
Composer, Music Director and founder, Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Tod Machover (Cambridge, MA)
Composer, Director of the Experimental Media Facility, MIT

Stephen Mosko (Saugus, CA)
Composer, conductor, Music Director, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, faculty member, California Institute of the Arts

James Newton (San Pedro, CA)
Flutist and composer, Professor of Music, UC Irvine

Barbara Petersen (New York, NY)
Assistant Vice President, Concert Music Administration, BMI

David Raksin (Van Nuys, CA)
Composer, conductor, former President, Society for Preservation of Film Music

Frances Richard (New York, NY)
Director, Symphonic and Concert Department, ASCAP, Chairman, Meet The Composer. Vice President of the Board

Bernadette Speach (Brooklyn, NY)
Composer, Distance Learning Curator at The Kitchen
Bspeach@aol.com

Kevin Stalheim (Milwaukee, WI)
Artistic Director and founder, Present Music

Carl Stone (San Francisco, CA)
Composer. Past President of Board
cstone@sukothai.com
http://www.sukothai.com

Francis Thorne (New York, NY)
Composer and pianist, president and CEO, American Composers Orchestra

Albert K. Webster (New York, NY)
Arts Consultant, former Executive Vice President and Managing Director, New York Philharmonic. Treasurer of the Board

Carol Yaple (New York, NY)
Vice President of Artist Development, Nonesuch Records