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FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN
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David V. Cox
President
groupDVC Corporation, New York City
David V. Cox is the Founder and Chairman of The Max Reger
Foundation of America. He holds two degrees in music: a
Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, in
Rochester, New York, where he studied with David Craighead;
and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of
Music, in Hartford, Connecticut, studying with John Holtz.
An organist, Mr. Cox held several church positions during his
musical career: Organist and Director of Concerts at the
Cathedral of St. Joseph, in Hartford; Director of Music and
Liturgy at St. Columbkille Church, in Brighton,
Massachusetts and most recently as the Associate Organist at
Grace Church, in New York City. In 1997, he created the
first website dedicated to the life and work of Max Reger –
The Max Reger Pages. In addition, he performs monthly organ
recitals in the series, Music in a Tiny Space ™.
Currently, he consults for Fortune 500 companies, in New
York City, relating to project management and strategic
planning, and holds the Project Management Professional
certificate (PMP). His business experience includes serving
as a Vice President at TD Waterhouse and managing projects
for Salomon Smith Barney and Liberty Mutual Insurance
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Stefano Campolonghi
Associate
Clifford Chance LLP, London
Stefano Campolonghi is an associate of Clifford Chance LLP
with eight years of experience in corporate and securities
law. Stefano began his legal career at the Milan office of
Clifford Chance in August 2000, after graduating magna cum
laude at the Law School of the University of Bologna. In
early 2004, he was admitted to the LL.M program of Columbia
Law School, where he graduated in May 2005. In September
2005, Stefano began working at the Clifford Chance New York
office, where he has been advising domestic and
international clients on several capital markets
transactions. Starting April 2009, Stefano has been seconded
to the Clifford Chance London office for a six-month period.
Stefano is admitted to the Bar both in New York and Italy.
After graduating with a degree in Trombone at the
Conservatory of Piacenza in 1994, Stefano performed in
various orchestras in Italy (including the Italian Youth
Symphony Orchestra and the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra)
from 1995 through 2001. In addition, after taking an elected
position at the Piacenza City Council in 1998, Stefano was
appointed as a member of the managing and artistic committee
of the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza, position which he held
until 2002. Starting in 2008, Stefano has been attending
orchestral conducting classes at The Juilliard School in New
York. He also participated to several international
orchestral conducting masterclasses and workshops,
conducting, among others, the State Academic Symphony
Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra) in Moscow
in June 2008 and the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
in April 2009.
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Ericka Guerrero
Executive Director
The Max Reger Foundation of America
In 2008, we welcomed Ericka Guerrero to MRFOA as the Chief
of Staff to the Founder and Chairman. Ericka is a tremendous
resource who has developed our volunteer program and managed
the planning and coordination of our events and fund
raising.
Formerly, she had a successful career as a Project Director
with Compaq Computer and Citigroup. At Citigroup, she
managed the technology roll-outs of the Global Office for
the Private Banking Group..
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HONORARY DIRECTORS
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Milton Babbitt
American Composer
Faculty, The Juilliard School, New York City
Milton Babbitt is renowned for his great talent, instinct
for Jazz and his astonishing command of American popular
music. Babbitt was born in Philadelphia and studied
composition privately with Roger Sessions. He earned degrees
from New York and Princeton Universities and was awarded
honorary degrees from Middlebury College, Swarthmore
College, New York University, New England Conservatory,
University of Glasgow, and Northwestern University. He also
taught at Princeton and The Juilliard School.
He is a founder and member of the Committee of Direction for
the Electronic Music Center of Columbia-Princeton
Universities and a member of the Editorial Board of
Perspectives of New Music. The recipient of numerous honors,
commissions, and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship
and a Pulitzer Prize Citation for his "life's work as a
distinguished and seminal American composer," Babbitt is a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Markus Becker
Concert Pianist
Professor, Musikhochschule
Hannover, Germany
Markus Becker is one of the most remarkable pianists of his
generation. In 1987, Markus Becker won first price at the
international Brahms Competition in Hamburg and numerous
prizes followed. Markus Becker, who has been a Professor at
the Musilkhochschule in Hannover since 1993, is much in
demand as a chamber musician. Becker has played with
musicians such as Kolja Blacher, Latica Honda-Rosenberg,
Alban Gerhardt, Ludwig Quandt and Albrecht Meyer. He plays
with numerous orchestras with conductors like Alun Francis,
Carlos Kalmar, Bernhard Klee, Lutz Köhler, Othmar Maga,
Helmut Müller-Brühl and Steven Sloane. In 1995, he made his
Berlin Philharmonic debut under Claudio Abbado. Following
his CD debut with the F sharp minor Sonatas of Brahms and
Schumann and recordings for harmonia mundi and EMI classics,
Markus Becker recorded the first complete edition of all of
Max Reger's piano works on twelve volumes (Thoron label).
This series of 12 CD's has been awarded the "Deutscher
Schallplattenpreis” and the "ECHO-KLASSIK-Prize 2000” for
the best Solo-recording of music from the 19th century.
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Leon Botstein
President, Bard College - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra, New York City
Leon Botstein is hailed as a prophetic and innovative voice
in American higher education and has been the president of
Bard College since 1975. The author of Jefferson's Children:
Education and the Promise of American Culture, he has
published widely in the fields of music, education, and
history and culture. He has been a pioneer in linking
American higher education to public secondary schools.
President Botstein is also a renowned international
conductor who has served as the music director and conductor
of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. In 2003 he
became the music director of the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra, the radio orchestra of Israel. His recording of
the music of Popov and Shostakovich, with the London
Symphony Orchestra, was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award.
Among other honors, Dr. Botstein has received the Award for
Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters and Harvard University's Centennial
Award, as well as the Cross of Honor from the Republic of
Austria.
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Susanne Popp
Director
Max-Reger-Institut / Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany
Susanne Popp was born in Mühlhausen/Thuringia, Germany. She
is married to Dr. Manfred Popp and they have two daughters,
Jessica and Stefanie. Susanne Popp studied musicology,
mathematics and pedagogics, and received her doctorate, in
1971, with a thesis on the choral works of Robert Schumann.
After having lived in Israel for two years, she was employed
by the Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, in 1973. In
1975, Dr. Popp became a member of the Board of Trustees and,
in 1981, assumed the role as Director of the Institute.
Apart from the management of the Institut, Dr. Popp has
contributed numerous musicological publications on Max Reger
and his work. She is head of the research projects New
Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Max Reger (Reger-Werk-Verzeichnis)
and the Catalogue of Reger Letters (Reger-Briefe-Verzeichnis)
supported by the German Research Foundation. She regularly
organizes and presents concerts, conferences and
exhibitions. In April 2003, she became a professor at the
University of Music, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Gunther Schuller
American Composer, Boston Massachusetts
Editor, Jazz Masterworks Editions
Gunther Schuller is a world-renowned composer, conductor,
performer, educator, record producer, music publisher and
Jazz historian. Mr. Schuller has also conducted most of
world's major orchestras over the past 50 years and is
regarded as one of the key figures in contemporary classical
music. Performing professionally since the age of 16, he
played with the NY Philharmonic and was Principal Horn in
the Cincinnati Symphony, and Principal Horn of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He was also active in the New
York Bebop scene and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles
Davis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Ornette Coleman, among
others. At the age of 25, he started his teaching career at
the Manhattan School of Music, and went on to be Professor
of Composition at Yale University School of Music, President
of the New England Conservatory, and Artistic Director of
the Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center.
Gunther Schuller has written more than 190 original
compositions in virtually every musical genre; he has
authored five books and started his own recording company,
GM Recordings, in 1980. He has won many awards, including a
Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, the MacArthur "Genius"
Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
for Music, BMI Lifetime Achievement Award, and Columbia
University's William Schuman Award..
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ADVISORY COUNCIL
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David Coogan
Managing Director
David Coogan has been involved in financial services for the
past seventeen years and is currently a Managing Director
for one of the world’s leading brokerage firms.
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Joseph Dezio
President & CEO
Trine Aspects, Ltd., New York City
Joseph A Dezio is Chief Executive Officer and President of
Trine Aspects, Ltd., a cutting edge information technology
consulting firm founded by him in 1980. The firm serves
major investment banking and financial institutions in the
tri-state area. He has also held positions at Mt. Sinai
Hospital and was a Vice President at Irving Trust Company.
A keen interest in preserving the cultural heritage of
Staten Island for our children and the generations of
children to follow is evident from Mr. Dezio’s involvement
with The Staten Island Museum. Mr. Dezio served as Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Museum for 3 years, is a
member of the Leng and Davis Society and a board member
since with the Museum since 199l.
Mr. Dezio is also a member of the Board of Trustees at
Staten Island Academy and served as President of the Board
of Trustees for six years, Becoming a Board member in 1988,
he has served on every major committee of the Board and was
involved with the Capital Campaign, which added a
state-of-the-art Science and Technology Center to the
Academy’s educational facilities. A staunch advocate in the
role that technology plays in developing leadership skills
among today’s young adults, his philosophy is that with
technology our children will become self-reliant, critical
thinkers who will be prepared to become the future leaders
of Staten Island and the caretakers of our cultural
heritage..
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Miles Ladin
Photographer
New York City
Miles Ladin is an internationally recognized photographer
and artist whose work has appeared in The New York Times and
W Magazine. Ladin's limited edition artist's books, Lunch
Poems and That Various Field: A Salute to James Schyuler,
are housed in the Library Collections of New York's MoMA and
The Whitney Museum of American Art, respectively.
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Nancy E. Leung
Principal, Leung Designs, Brooklyn, NY
Design Engineer/Senior Project Manager, Bernstein Display,
Brooklyn, NY
Nancy Leung is the Principal of Leung Designs, a company
that provides design and guidance in fields of photography,
graphics and industrial design, advertising and print
production. She has 15 years of experience, freelancing for
individual client projects to managing corporate accounts.
Ms. Leung began her career in advertising, which led to
photography, graphic design and print production. About 7
years ago, she returned to school to pursue a Masters of
Industrial Design, focusing on furniture design. Included in
her studies, she attended a summer program in Copenhagen,
Denmark, where she was awarded with a certificate for best
student furniture piece. She also attended an architectural
seminar in western France, studying under Simon Velez, a
well-known Colombian architect that primarily uses bamboo as
a construction material. A small bamboo pavilion was
constructed in 2 weeks, as the project study for the
seminar.
While pursuing design work on her own, Ms. Leung presently
works for Bernstein Display, for the past year and a half,
as a design engineer and senior project manager. Bernstein
Display is a mannequins and display fixtures company.
She has also donated her time and designs to non-profit
organizations, which includes the World Wildlife Foundation,
Young Mortgage Bankers Assoc. (YMBA), Women-In-Need, Sharing
& Caring, a breast cancer support service.
Ms. Leung received her BS degree from University of
Wisconsin-Madison in Medical Microbiology and a Masters of
Industrial Design at Pratt Institute.
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David C. Speedie
Senior Fellow
Carnegie Council, New York City
Senior Fellow David Speedie is Director of the Council's new
program on U.S. Global Engagement.
In the current political debate, much is made of "renewal of
engagement" with the world in conducting foreign policy, or
of restoring U.S. "moral leadership". But what might
constructive engagement entail? To address this key policy
question, the U.S. Global Engagement program will look at
the issues through the lens of a series of critical
bilateral and multilateral relationships, with allies and
non-allies alike.
In 2007–2008, Mr. Speedie was also a senior fellow at the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He worked at Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1992 to
2007. He joined the Corporation as a program officer in the
cooperative security program and was appointed Program Chair
in March 1993, a position he held for almost 12 years. In
2004, he was appointed to serve as special advisor to the
president and director of the Corporation's project on
Islam.
In the early 1990s, Speedie was appointed president of the
Jacksonville Art Museum in Florida. He was recruited from
the W. Alton Jones Foundation where he was codirector of the
secure society program and directed, over a five year
period, programs in the arts, urban affairs and the
environment. In the 1980s, Speedie was a consultant to
nonprofits in management, marketing and fund-raising as well
as director of cultural affairs for Mayor Bill Green in
Philadelphia. He also served as the bicentennial liaison
officer at the British Embassy in Washington.
For three years, Speedie was a professor of English and
drama at the University of St. Andrews in his native
Scotland. Speedie holds an M.A. in education and an M.Litt.
from the University of St. Andrews. He was a visiting
research fellow as a Kennedy scholar at Harvard University
from 1971-1973. He has been a book editor and writer for the
National Endowment for the Arts' Community Vision, a
freelance journalist on politics for The Scotsman, and most
recently, a reviewer for the International Journal of Middle
East Studies.
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HONORARY ADVISORS
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Antonius Bittmann
Chairman of the Music Department
Rutger’s University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Antonius Bittmann is the Chairman of the Music Department
and an Associate Professor of organ and musicology at
Rutgers University, where he joined the Mason Gross School
of the Arts, in 1999. He holds a D.M.A (organ), a Master of
Music (harpsichord), and a Ph.D. (musicology) from the
Eastman School of Music. Other studies include a Bachelors
of Music and a Master of Music (both in organ) from the
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, in Freiburg, Germany.
Mr. Bittmann, who served as part-time lecturer at Eastman
before coming to Mason Gross, is increasingly in demand as
recitalist, guest lecturer, and organ teacher at
universities across the U.S. He has presented lectures at
Stony Brook University, Syracuse University, and the
University of Nebraska, and taught organ masterclasses at
Walla Walla College, The Church of the Transfiguration (New
York City), and at the University of Iowa.
Mr. Bittmann is active both as organ recitalist and
musicologist, having received fellowships and awards from,
among others, the German Academic Exchange Service, the
Rotary Club International, the Institute of International
Education, and the American Brahms Society. As the
University Organist of Rutgers University, he is featured on
several CD’s, has recorded for radio and television
stations, and performed numerous recitals in the United
States, Europe, and Japan. Prizes and awards at organ
competitions include the first prize and prize of the
audience at the prestigious Internationale Orgelwoche,
Nürnberg, Germany.
Mr. Bittmann studied with David Craighead, Michael Farris
and Russell Saunders at the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, NY; and, Zsigmond Szathmáry and Xavier Darasse,
at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg. He also
studied privately with Wolfgang Rübsam at the University of
Chicago and attended master classes by Daniel Roth, William
A. Little, Gillian Weir, Harald Vogel, and Simon Preston.
Mr. Bittmann is a widely published musicologist whose
research has focused on performance practice issues in
Handel, and on the music of Max Reger. He is a founding
member of the Internationale Max-Reger-Gesellschaft and
recently joined the Board of the new Max Reger Foundation of
America. His book, Max Reger and Historicist Modernisms, was
published by Verlag Valentin Koerner, in 2004; and he was a
major contributor to the Max Reger edition of the Musical
Quarterly, in 2004.
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Walter Frisch
Professor of Musicology
Columbia University, New York City
Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von
Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University in New
York, where he has taught since 1982. He has also been a
guest professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany,
Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has
lectured on music throughout the United States, and in
England, France, Spain, and Germany. His writings have been
translated into French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and
Italian.
Professor Frisch is a specialist in the music of composers
from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, ranging from Schubert to Schoenberg. He
has written numerous articles and two books on Brahms,
including Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation
(1984) and Brahms: the Four Symphonies (1996). He served as
editor of the volume Brahms and His World (1990) and was the
founding president of the American Brahms Society in 1983.
He is the co-author, with George S. Bozarth, of the Brahms
article in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary
(2000).
Professor Frisch’s publications on Schoenberg include the
book The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 (1993)
and the edited volume Schoenberg and His World (1999). He
also edited and contributed to a volume on Schubert’s music,
Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies (1986). Professor
Frisch has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for his
writings. He has also been awarded fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Center for Scholars
and Writers at the New York Public Library.
His most recent book, which appeared in July 2005 from
University of California Press, is German Modernism: Music
and the Arts, which investigates the relationships between
music and its cultural context in Austria and Germany during
the period 1880-1915. He is currently serving as general
editor for a new series from Norton, Music in Western
Culture, in which he will write a volume on
nineteenth-century music.
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Saundra Thomas
Vice President of Community Affairs
WABC-TV, New York City
As WABC-TV’s Vice President of Community Affairs,
Saundra Thomas coordinates all public service programming,
community outreach and station projects. Thomas acts as a
liaison between the public and the station and recommends
news and programming coverage of important topics. She is
responsible for all of WABC-TV’s philanthropic endeavors.
Prior to this, Ms. Thomas held the position of
writer-producer in WABC-TV’s Creative Services Department
where she wrote, produced and edited on-air topical
promotion for Eyewitness News, and award-winning ABC7
special programs such as ‘Protect Our Children’, ‘Above and
Beyond’, McDonald’s GospelFest’ and the ‘Newsday Marching
Band Festival”.
Ms. Thomas has come up through the ranks of ABC7, having
held positions in both the Creative Services Department and
Sales. She began her broadcasting career as an assistant in
the Traffic Department at what is formerly known as WWOR-TV.
An avid volunteer, Ms. Thomas has been involved with
numerous organizations such as Women In Need, The Fresh Air
Fund and New York Cares. She has been a trustee of St.
Philip’s Academy in Newark and currently is the president of
the Global Action Project board of directors. Ms. Thomas is
also a Vice-President of the West Side Chamber of Commerce.
Thomas has recently been the recipient of the Black
Achievers In Industry award from the Harlem YMCA, the 2003
Madam CJ Walker Award from Community Directed Ownership, the
Corporate Angel Award from Protestant Board of Guardians,
Excellence in Education honor from the Support Network and
corporate honors from the Education and Assistance
Corporation.
A native of Boston, Ms. Thomas holds a B.A. in Journalism
from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Media Studies from
the New School.
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR - NEW ENGLAND
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Carlton Doctor
Chairman of the Music Department
The Brown Middle School, Newton, Massachusetts
A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Doctor received his
Masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music,
in Boston, Massachusetts, and his bachelor of music degree
from Millikin University School of Music, in Decatur,
Illinois where he studied voice with Susan Clickner, Vera
Scammon, and Patricia Craig. He has performed with the Opera
Company of Boston, Janus Opera, Longwood Opera, Vermont
Opera Artists, Boston Lyric Opera, New England Spiritual
Ensemble, Bowdoin College, Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Doctor received the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts
Education Award for Outstanding Arts Educator, in 1991. In
2002, he won the Newton Teachers Association’s Charles E.
Brown Fellowship Award and was honored by the Newton Schools
Foundation Honor Thy Teacher Program.
He is currently the head of the Music Department at Brown
Middle School, in Newton, Massachusetts where he directs
four choruses, teaches classroom music and produces the
annual musical. He is the Coordinator of Music for the
Boston Society of The New Jerusalem where he manages the
music programs and directs the professional choir. Mr.
Doctor is also on the Educational Advisory Board for the
Boston Symphony Orchestra where he develops workshops for
music educators at the K-12 grade levels.
Mr. Doctor served as a Board of Director for the Boston
Civic Symphony Orchestra, Building Representative for the
Newton Teachers Association Representative Assembly and the
Newton Public School Teacher Mentor Program and an
adjudicator at the Massachusetts and Vermont Music Educators
Festivals. He is also a member of the Music Educators
National Conference, America Choral Directors Association,
Massachusetts Teachers Association, American Guild of
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