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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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SECRETARY
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Bryan J. Vogel
Senior Associate
Lovells LLP, New York City
Mr. Vogel is a senior associate in the New York office of
Lovells LLP. His practice focuses on intellectual property
litigation, arbitration and counselling, with a particular
emphasis on patent and trade secret matters.
Mr. Vogel is a registered patent attorney that represents
clients in a broad range of industries. He has participated
in numerous litigations and arbitrations involving various
technologies, including: pharmaceuticals, chemicals,
polymers, textiles, catheter technology, chewing gum,
colloidal silica sols and particles for electronic
applications, water-soluble polymers for waste-water
treatment, integrated circuits, semiconductor processing,
computer systems, computer software, telephony, financial
systems, LCDs, and a range of mechanical devices. In
addition, Mr. Vogel’s practice includes preparing various
types of opinions of counsel and preparing and negotiating
agreements, including license agreements, joint-development
agreements, consulting agreements, and employment
agreements. He also has prepared and prosecuted patent
applications covering various technologies, including
biomedical, textiles and financial systems.
Prior to law school, Mr. Vogel worked for Montell
Polyolefins as a research engineer in the Advanced Materials
Division and for Insight Integration, Inc. as a project
engineer.
During law school, Mr. Vogel interned for the Honorable Paul
R. Michel of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit, as well as for the Honorable Marian Blank
Horn of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and for
the Office of Unfair Import Investigations of the United
States International Trade Commission.
Mr. Vogel received his law degree from The George Washington
University Law School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering,
with honors, from Michigan State University.
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HONORARY DIRECTOR
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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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STRATEGIC ADVISORS
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Melinda Borges
Partner
RJ Rzasa Solutions, Jersey City, NJ
Mrs. Borges is a successful information technology (IT)
executive who has worked in the financial industry for the
last fifteen years. She is currently a Vice President for
the Investment Banking division of JP Morgan Chase.
In 1998, she founded Net Master Solutions, a consulting firm
offering innovative business practices in Information
Technology and determining financially sound technology
solutions for Citibank, Compaq, Motorola, British Airways
and TD Waterhouse.
Formerly, Mrs. Borges consulted for Fortune 500 companies in
North American and Europe, and she was responsible for
managing the technology project portfolio of approximately
$55MM specifically focusing on development of online
brokerage applications for TD Waterhouse. In addition, she
managed the technology infrastructure design of British
Airways’ primary and secondary data centers in Florida and
New York, respectively.
Currently, she is an active member of the Financial Women’s
Association (FWA) and a member of the Westchester County
Chapter of the Project Management Institute and is certified
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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
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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
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Richard J. Rzasa
Managing Partner
CIOIV Enterprises, LLC
Richard J. Rzasa is the Managing Partner of CIOIV
Enterprises, LLC, a Strategic Technology Consulting company.
Mr. Rzasa is a 25-year veteran of the Financial Services
Industry, having most recently been the Vice Chairman and
Chief Information Officer of TD Waterhouse, a leading
provider of online financial services to the independent
investor. Prior to TD Waterhouse, Mr. Rzasa enjoyed a long
career at Lehman Brothers, a global investment bank. He has
also worked at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Drexel Burnham
Lambert, and the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Mr. Rzasa
serves as an Advisor to Shadow Enterprises, LLC, and is also
the lead, independent investor in the company. His company,
CIOIV Enterprises LLC, also provides strategic capital
investments to early-stage, technology-focused companies.
Mr. Rzasa is also the Secretary/Treasurer of the Borough of
Manhattan Community College Foundation. |
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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 DIRECTORS
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NEW
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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
Musical Artists and works with the WGBH Educational
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Sarah Ritchie
Manager, Leadership Development
ICSC, New York City
Ms. Ritchie is responsible for the association’s student
membership program and higher education outreach. She
previously managed ICSC’s Educational Foundation. For nearly
a decade, she worked as a program and public affairs officer
for The Century Foundation, formerly the Twentieth Century
Fund, a public policy foundation based in New York.
Previously she was a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute
of Government, the public policy institute of the State
University of New York. In addition to college teaching, she
has been a volunteer with educational programs including
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison. Ritchie earned
bachelors degrees in political science, history, and
economics at the University of Oklahoma and advanced degrees
in political science at Yale University. She volunteers with
a wide range of educational and social justice charities. |
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