New Music USA Board & Councils
New Music USA Board of Directors
Officers
Reena Esmail, Co-Chair (Composer; Co-Artistic Director of Shastra)
Joseph Walker, Co-Chair (Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, JP Morgan; Board Member, Roulette)
Amy Iwano, Vice-Chair (Executive Director, University of Chicago Presents)
Matías Tarnopolsky, Secretary (President and CEO, The Philadelphia Orchestra Association)
Steven Tresnan, Treasurer (Private Wealth Advisor, The Bahnsen Group)
Vanessa Reed, President and CEO
Trustees
Aja Burrell Wood (Managing Director, Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice; Ethnomusicologist, Curator, Violinist)
Dorothea Endicott (Arts Administrator and Composer)
James Kendrick (Attorney at Law, Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP; Acting President, European American Distributors LLC)
Alan Kornberg (Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison)
Chere Lott (Attorney at Law and Real Estate Broker, Chere D. Lott and Associates)
Marya Martin (Founder and Artistic Director, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival)
Phyllis Mills (Philanthropist)
Gayle Morgan (Former Program Officer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)
Barbara Petersen (Former Assistant VP, BMI Classical, and Musicologist)
Angelica Sanchez – Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Artist Board Member (Composer; Lecturer, Princeton University; Lecturer, New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music)
Susan Wegleitner (Managing Director and Group Head at J.P. Morgan)
Joseph Young (Music Director, Berkeley Symphony; Artistic Director of Ensembles, Peabody Conservatory; Conductor)
Frederick Peters, Chair Emeritus
Steven Stucky, Founding Member In Memoriam
Steve Reich, Trustee Emeritus
Frances Richard, Honorary Director
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council enables active artists and practitioners to be involved in New Music USA’s developing program, partnerships, networks, and funder relationships. The role of this less-formal group is:
- to support CEO/New Music USA Board on an ad hoc, individual basis with ideas, partners and funders
- to identify and provide introductions to individuals who could play a productive role in the organization in some way, as panelists, writers, patrons, Board members, etc.
Teddy Abrams (Music Director and Conductor)
Marin Alsop (Music Director and Conductor)
Jonathan Bailey Holland (Composer)
Jeff Beal (Composer, Jazz Instrumentalist)
Kathryn Bostic (Composer, Artist)
Kris Bowers (Composer, Pianist)
Terri-Lyne Carrington (Composer, Artist, Educator)
Tamar-Kali (Artist, Composer)
Rhiannon Giddens (Musician Singer-Songwriter, Banjoist)
Tania León (Composer, Conductor, Educator)
George Lewis (Composer, Performer, Scholar)
Nico Muhly (Composer, Collaborator, Arranger)
Matana Roberts (Saxophonist, Composer, Multidisciplinary Artist)
Kamala Sankaram (Composer, Instrumentalist)
Jeanine Tesori (Composer, Musical Arranger)
Brandee Younger (Composer, Artist)
Miguel Zenon (Saxophonist, Composer, Educator)
New Music USA Program Council
New Music USA’s Program Council enables artists, practitioners and others from the new music community from across the US to bring ideas, contribute feedback and advise staff on New Music USA activities and the changing needs of the field. Membership aligns with our vision for an equitable music ecosystem by including artists and other practitioners who reflect the diversity of our music community across geography, race, generation, artistic practice and genre. Meetings take place quarterly. Program Council meetings complement the active dialogue and relationships New Music USA has through its daily work with the community.
Composers
Arooj Aftab, New York
Ambrose Akinmusire, California
Raven Chacon, New Mexico
Sebastian Currier, New York
Amanda Ekery, Texas
Jennifer Jolley, Texas
David Ludwig, Pennsylvania
Gustavo Matamoros, Florida
Angélica Negrón, New York
Sam Newsome, New York
Frances Pollock, Connecticut
Jake Runestad, Minnesota
Carlos Simon, Washington DC
David Skidmore, Illinois
Derrick Spiva, California
Omar Thomas, Texas
Sakari Dixon Vanderveer, California
Artists, Administrators, Presenters, Curators
Amanda DeBoer, Nebraska
Ashleigh Gordon, Massachusetts
Chelsey Green, California
Aaron Greenwald, Tennessee
Alex Laing, Arizona
Flor Lizbeth Cruz Longoria, Missouri
Maggie Molloy, Washington
Jannina Norpoth, New York/Michigan
Valerie Sainte-Agathe, California
Ashley Shabankareh, Louisiana