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The American Composers Alliance
802 W. 190th St. 1st floor
New York, NY 10040

**Please send all mail/return all ACA rental scores to the above address**

Tel: (212) 925-0458
Fax: (212) 925-6798

Email: info@composers.com


Management Staff

Gina Genova, Executive Director
Jason Mears, Production Manager
Robyn Chan Bookkeeper
Yael Manor, Festival Director
Leahkim Gannett, Special Collections Manager, Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library,
University of Maryland College Park

Board of Governors

OFFICERS:

Hubert S. Howe, Jr., ACA President, Professor of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York; Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College 2000-1; President of the League of Composers-International Society for Contemporary Music, U.S. Section 1970-79.

Gina Genova, Executive Director of ACA, former Executive Director for the Jewish Music Forum; Archivist-consultant for the Earle Brown Music Foundation since 2007; Research Director for the Milken Archive 1999-2007; Adjunct faculty GSAS Dept of Music at NYU 2004-10; New music specialist for the American Music Center, 1997-98; Archivist and Curator, Fales Library, NY Downtown Collection at New York University, 1999-2001; Production supervisor Sundance Institute/American Playhouse films 1984-94; KXLU Radio Program Director at Loyola University in Los Angeles, 1981-83.

Richard Brooks, Chairman – President of Capstone Records; Appointed Composer-in-Residence for The Lark Ascending; Department Chair at Nassau Community College 1982-2004.

Noel Zahler, Vice President - Director of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Joel Gressel, Secretary/Treasurer – Composer, Computer Programmer.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS:
Robert Carl - Composition Department Chair at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford; Writer Fanfare Magazine; Former Co-Director of the Extension Works New Music Ensemble in Boston; Performer, Piano and Flute.

Gerry Ann Fifer - Attorney, Pitegoff Law Office PLLC; Legal Analyst, Bloomberg L.P.

Barry Hoggard – Web developer and owner of Tristan Media LLC, ArtCat, and Culture Pundits.

John Melby – Professor Emeritus, School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,1973-1997.

Fred Cohen – Professor, Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, Atlanta, GA 2007-present; Professor, Montclair State University 2002-2007; Professor, University of Richmond 1986-2002.

Steven Christopher Sacco - Composition and theory faculty member and past department co-chair at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, he also teaches at Midland School in New Jersey and has taught at Rutgers University and at the State University of New York at Purchase.

James Paul Sain - Chair of the Society of Composers Inc. Executive Committee; Board Member in Composition for the College Music Society Southern Chapter.

Joel Eric Suben – Founder of Save the Music, Inc.; Music Advisor, Wellesley Philharmonic 1993-1996; Director of Orchestras, College of William & Mary, 1983-1992.

Beth Wiemann – Professor of Composition, University of Maine.

Mark Zuckerman – Composer; Member of the music faculty, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers Universities, New Jersey Arts Council Award recipient.


The ACA Board of Governors is elected by a vote of the entire membership each year to serve 2 to 3-year terms of service. Committees consisting of both Board members and other ACA members are appointed at the discretion of the President and Executive Director.

The Board of Governors meets at least twice per year--Friday afternoons in May and October, with additional meetings by the Board's Executive Committee.

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