ACA Board and Staff

ACA Staff

Gina Genova,  Director, sales, licensing, and program development.
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Will Rowe, Co-Director, composer relations
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Sophie Marie Rymarowicz, Production Associate, score digitizing
Simon Henry Berry, Curator-Editor, catalog and website development

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ACA Composer Board of Governors 2024-26

Andrew Ardizzoia - Andrew earned the D.M.A in composition with a cognate in music theory from the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in 2014. Andrew currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Composition and Instrumental Studies at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, where he also directs the Wind Ensemble. He has also taught at the Hartt School, Arizona State University, Naugatuck Valley Community College, and Paradise Valley Community College. 2022  

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, keyboards and shakuhachi. 2022

Robert Gibson (Treasurer) - Composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and in Europe, China and South America by noted performers and ensembles. He is Professor and former Director (2005–2016) of the School of Music at the University of Maryland, College Park. 2023

Jan Gilbert - Nationally recognized composer. Her work has been commissioned by Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, Ars Nova Singers, LISTEN, the American Guild of Organists, the St. Paul Civic Symphony, the University of Illinois Chamber Singers, the University of Maine Chamber Singers, Hamline University, A Cappella Singers, WomanVoice and the United Nations Association International Choir. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Walker Art Center, American Composers Forum and the Otto Bremer Foundation, and has completed several residencies at the MacDowell Colony. 2023

Doug Harbin (Secretary) - Composer, performer, and educator residing in Moorhead, Minnesota. He composes acoustic and electroacoustic systematic music and his works have been performed throughout the world including Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, South Korea, and the United States. Much of his music utilizes a method dubbed the 'Take-Away System', which applies modular arithmetic over a finite set. 2023

Barbara Jazwinski - Studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Gyorgy Ligeti and John Chowning. Currently, she is Head of the Composition Program at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University in New Orleans. 2022

Aaron Larget-Caplan - An international recording and touring guitarist, award winning curator, producer, publisher, and composer. A self-taught composer, Larget-Caplan’s compositional influences include John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, and the over 100 composers he has collaborated with. He has premiered over 110 compositions, many written for his New Lullaby Project, and his groundbreaking arrangements and recording of the music of John Cage are published and recorded by Edition Peters and the UK label Stone Records. He has 10 critically acclaimed solo albums for Stone Records and Tiger Turn. 2023

John McDonald - A composer who tries to play the piano and a pianist who tries to compose. He is currently Professor of Music at Tufts University, where he teaches composition, theory, and performance. Described as “the New England master of the short piece,” he has composed upwards of 3000 solo piano miniatures gathered in annual collections (Piano Albums 1984-2023, and ongoing). He has performed many of these works, as have more than forty other pianists. 2023

Dana Dimitri Richardson - A composer and music theorist whose seminal work on the 21st century harmonic system, syntonality, is published online by the Goldberg Stiftung. After earning a Ph.D. in Theory and Composition from New York University in 2001, he taught at Fredonia College and New York University. During 2004-2006 he worked as a securities analyst on Wall Street and is now running his own investment advisory service, Well-Tempered Capital Management, LLC, while maintaining his compositional activity throughout. 2007 Winner John Eaton Memorial Competition, New York Composers Circle. 2023

Judith Shatin - Renowned for her richly imagined music that seamlessly spans acoustic and digital realms. Called “highly inventive on every level” by The Washington Post, her music combines an adventurous approach to timbre with dynamic narrative design and a keen awareness of the sonic landscape of modern life. Shatin holds degrees from Douglass College (B.A.), The Juilliard School (M.M.), and Princeton University (MFA, Ph.D.). She is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. 2022

Marilyn Shrude (Vice-President) - Earned degrees from Alverno College and Northwestern University, and has served on the faculty of Bowling Green State University since 1977. She has been honored with awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. She was the first woman to receive the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for Orchestral Music and the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music. 2022

Michael Slayton (President) - Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition and Chair of the Composition/Theory Department at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a student of Michael Horvit, Jerome Reed, David Ashley White. He is a member of the American Composers Alliance, the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc., the South Central Society for Music Theory, and BMI. 2022

Edward Smaldone - Professor of Music and Associate Director at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York. He was the Director of the School of Music from 2002 – 2016. His composition teachers include George Perle, Ralph Shapey, Henry Weinberg and Hugo Weisgall. Smaldone is the recipient of many awards including the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2016 he was named “Composer of the Year” by the Classical Recording Foundation at a ceremony at National Sawdust. 2022

Gerry Fifer, Law Office of Gerry A. Fifer 2018
Christine Clark, President emeritus, Theodore Front Musical Literature. 2018
Vincent J. Novara, Head of Acquisitions, Library of Congress, Music Division 2018
Richard Scerbo, Director, National Orchestral Institute and Festival 2020
John Davis, Curator SCPA at U of Maryland Libraries, ex officio

Elected members of the ACA Board of Governors serve 4-year terms of service. Committees consisting of Board members, advisers, and ACA composers are appointed at the discretion of the Board officers. The Board of Governors meets 3 to 4 times per year.

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