ACA Board and Staff
ACA Staff
Gina Genova - Archive development, licensing.
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Will Rowe - Manager, composer services, membership.
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Simon Henry Berry - Manager, sales, publications, and web development.
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Sophie Marie Rymarowicz - Production Associate, score digitizing
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ACA Board of Governors 2024-26
Andrew Ardizzoia (Interim Treasurer) - 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
Christine Clark, President emeritus, Theodore Front Musical Literature. (Adv 2018)
Michael Dellaira's most recent opera, Arctic Explorations will be released on the Naxos label in 2025. He has a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University and, as a Fulbright Fellow to Italy, attended the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia Chigiana. His Chéri was a finalist for the American Academy of Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award, The Secret Agent was chosen the 2011 Armel International Opera Festival’s Laureat, and The Death of Webern was named one of the “5 Best New Works” of 2016 by Opera News. He’s been honored with an ASCAP Morton Gould Award, grants from the Ford and Mellon Foundations, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Arts Council, Cary Trust, the American Music Center, and a Jerome Commission from the American Composers Forum. (Int 2025)
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
Jacob Harrison, Associate Professor of Conducting and Director of the Texas State Symphony Orchestra, Texas State University, San Marcos. (Adv 2025)
Lisa Hooper, holds a Bachelor of Music (cello performance, Penn State), a Masters of Musicology (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and a Master of Library and Information Science (Indiana University). Lisa is the Head of Media Services at Tulane University Libraries where she provides collections and research support for music, dance, and theater and develops innovative programming that broadly works to expand how individuals engage with the sounding world. Lisa remains active in supporting contemporary local composers and musical organizations through previous participation on the Birdfoot Festival Board of Directors, ongoing board work with the New Orleans Chamber Orchestra, and periodic collaborations in support of Astralis Duo’s Rising Water project. (Adv 2025)
Barbara Jazwinski (Interim President)- 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
Julianne Nice (New Orleans, LA)—Reflecting a passion for music and affinity for the nonprofit sector, Julianne’s multi-faceted career covers a profession of over 30 years (as staff or consultant) in fundraising, strategic planning, and organization development—most notably with Tulane University; an avocation as a volunteer board member and leader, including the New Orleans Friends of Music and others; and a love of classical singing—today, a church choir soprano, with a history of performing in solo recitals in which she consistently championed the works of contemporary composers. In the early 1980s, she co-founded (with the late Melvin Alford) what is now the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, producer of the prestigious New Orleans International Piano Competition. More recently, Julianne has served as a volunteer grant application reader for the Echoing Green Foundation based in New York City, among other volunteer activities. (Adv 2025)
Nancy Ellen Ogle is retired from the University of Maine, where she taught voice and directed the Opera Workshop. Her concert and opera career has included performances in many parts of North America and Europe, as well as Russia and Japan. With support from the National Poetry Foundation, she has created poet-based recitals and recordings, each drawing from hundreds of submissions. One of her recordings, Dear Darwin on the Ravello label, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Nancy earned a Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from Indiana University. (Adv 2025)
Thomas L. Read, Thomas L. Read, noted composer and violinist, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1938, he studied violin, composition and conducting at the Oberlin, Mozarteum, New England and Peabody Conservatories. As violinist he has been a member of the Erie Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Festival Arts (under Harold Farberman), Vermont Symphony and the Saratoga Festival of Baroque Music. He joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in 1967, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2008, founded and led an innovative series of new music concerts and lectures (Symposium on Contemporary Music, held annually from1968 until 1991), was a co-founder and former president of the Consortium of Vermont Composers, served as chair of Region I, American Society of Composers, and on music composition award and arts fellowship panels for PSC-CUNY and the Maine Composers Forum, Vermont Council on the Arts, and the New Hampshire Arts Council. (Int 2025)
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
Jody Rockmaker (born 1961, New York City) received his Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University. He has studied at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Erich Urbanner, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt, Claudio Spies, Malcolm Peyton and Miriam Gideon. (Int 2025)
Eric Schorr, Composer and Lyricist for Theatrical, Television, and Film projects. (Adv 2025)
Judith Shatin (Interim Vice-President)- 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
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
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