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Members council

 

The Members Council identifies and considers issues that are of importance to the community arts education field. Committee members promote communication and provide support to other members, attend and encourage others to attend chapter meetings and regional events and serve as advocates for the community arts education movement. The School Directors Committee consists of no more than thirty-three Guild school directors, including the chair of each regional chapter.

chair

Kirsten Morgan

Representative, New York Metro Chapter
Executive Director, The Diller-Quaile School of Music

New York, NY

Directors

Eric Bachrach
Representative at Large
Executive Director, Community Music School of Springfield

Springfield, MA

 

Susanne Baker

Representative, Western Great Lakes Chapter

Director, DePaul Community Music Division

Chicago, IL

 

Kathy Bestwick

Chair, Mid-Atlantic Chapter

Founding Executive Director, Phoenix Village Art Center

Phoenixville, PA

 

Bryan Bowser

Chair, Central Great Lakes Chapter

Assistant Director of External Affairs, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music

Berea, OH

 

Joyce Bonomini

Chair, Southern Chapter

Director of Education

Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute

Tampa, FL

 

Elizabeth Christensen
Representative, Northeast Chapter
Director, Division of Preparatory and Continuing Education

New England Conservatory of Music

Boston, MA

 

Carol Commerford

Co-Chair, Western Great Lakes Chapter

Director, Community Music School of Webster University

St. Louis, MO

 

Eric Delli Bovi

Representative, Western Great Lakes Chapter

Director of External Affairs, Old Town School of Folk Music

Chicago, IL

 

Amy Dennison
Vice Chair and Representative, Central Great Lakes Chapter
Director, College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

 

Karen Deschere

Co-Chair, Western Great Lakes Chapter

President, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Milwaukee, WI

 

Leslie Jones

Representative, New York Metro Chapter

Director, Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School at Lighthouse International

New York, NY

 

Igal Kesselman

Chair, New York Metro

Director, Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center

New York, NY

 

Julia Wilkinson Manley

Chair, Mountain Chapter

School Director, Ballet Nouveau Colorado

Broomfield, CO


Robert McAllister

Chair, West Coast Chapter

Dean, Colburn School of Performing Arts

Los Angeles, CA

 

Howard Potter

Chair, Eastern Great Lakes Chapter

Associate Dean, Eastman Community Music School

Rochester, NY

 

Steven Rock
Representative, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Executive Director, Community Conservatory of Music

Doylestown, PA

 

Alana Seddon
Representative, Northeast Chapter
Associate Director, Hartt School Community Division, University of Hartford

West Hartford, CT

 

Andrew Sussman
Representative, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Executive Director, Cumberland Valley Music School

Chambersburg, PA

 

Davin Pierson Torre
Representative, Central Great Lakes Chapter
Director, Flint School of Performing Arts, Flint Institute of Music

Flint, MI

 

Jason Trotta

Vice Chair and Representative, Northeast Chapter

Executive Director, Northampton Community Music Center, Inc.

Northampton, MA

 

Michael Walsh

Chair, Northwest Chapter

Director, Multnomah Arts Center

Portland, OR

 

Kate Yoder

Chair, Northeast Chapter

Director, Concord Conservatory of Music

Concord, NH

 

 

 

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