Speakers & Performers

Kathryn O. Bach

Kathryn O. Bach holds degrees and certificates in music from the Hartt School, Holy Names University and Fitchburg State University. On faculty at Kodaly Music Institute, she has been a pedagogy teacher with Vocal Vacation, a Chamber a Music Coordinator, and a Conductor. Ms. Bach has taught in...

Marie-Hélène Bernard

Marie-Hélène Bernard became executive director and CEO of the Handel and Haydn Society in April 2007. A Québec native, she studied communications, media, and literature at Jean-de-Brébeuf College in Montréal and law at the University of Montréal and also holds a Master’s degree in arts...

Anne Watson Born

Anne Watson Born is the board chair of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium and the community choirs repertoire and standards chair for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. She is a UUA credentialed music leader and an active member of the UU Musicians Network...

Aisha Bowden

Aisha is co-director of the Atlanta Music Project. She holds a BME from Howard University and a post-graduate certificate from the New England Conservatory Sistema Fellows Program, a prestigious, post-graduate fellowship of that trains gifted musicians and educators to create El Sistema-inspired...

Harry Christophers

The 2014–2015 Bicentennial Season marks Harry Christophers’ sixth as artistic director of the Handel and Haydn Society. Since his appointment in 2009, Christophers and H+H have embarked on an ambitious artistic journey toward the organization’s 2015 Bicentennial with a showcase of works...

Jane Chu

Jane Chu is chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, where she began her tenure in June 2014. Since 2006, Chu served as the president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, overseeing a $413-million campaign to build the center. As the...

Shawn Crouch

Gramophone Magazine calls Shawn Crouch a “gifted composer” and Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times describes Shawn Crouch’s work as music of “gnarling atonal energy.” The Miami Herald called his Road From Hiroshima; A Requiem a “staggering achievement, an...

Hugh Davies

Hugh Davies is President of ACFEA North America, based in the San Francisco office. Born in England, he has a master's degree from Cambridge, where he sang at King's College under Sir David Willcocks. Hugh sang professionally in Europe, including with the Monteverdi Choir, before teaching music...

Tammy Dowley-Blackman

Tammy Dowley-Blackman is a graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard Graduate School of Education and is an entrepreneur, leadership expert, nonprofit executive, philanthropic leader, and professor. Dowley-Blackman is the former executive director of two nationally-affiliated nonprofits and the...

Patrick Dupré Quigley

Conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley is at the vanguard of a new generation of young Baroque specialists. The founder and artistic director of Seraphic Fire and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, Quigley was nominated for two 2012 GRAMMY® awards. He was the only conductor in the world to be nominated...

Jennifer Falk

As the director of marketing and communications for ArtsBoston, Jennifer Falk is a member of the senior management team and oversees brand management for ArtsBoston in addition to marketing, communications, sales, and community partnerships for its audience development programs including BosTix...

Corty Fengler

Corty Fengler's 33-year career in philanthropy has included work both as a development officer and as a consultant. She was Canon for Development at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and before that Director of Development for the San Francisco Symphony, the University of Pennsylvania Medical...

Martin Gardiner

Martin F. Gardiner, Ph.D. was trained in science, engineering, brain research, and music and has had an extensive research and teaching career. He is currently on the research faculty of the department of education at Brown University and on the teaching faculty of the extension division at New...

Ellen T. Harris

Ellen T. Harris, Professor Emerita at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formerly the Class of 1949 Professor of Music, was MIT’s first associate provost for the arts. She is an internationally recognized scholar in Baroque opera, specializing in the music of Handel and Purcell. She is also...

Micah Hendler

Micah Hendler, the founder and director of the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus, is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in music and international studies. A singer with the Whiffenpoofs and Duke’s Men during his time at Yale, he has studied community song leading with Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet...

Ben Hires

Ben Hires joined the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) in July 2009 as the director of programs. In this role, Hires provides strategy, management, and coordination for all choir activities. Since 2009, Hires has been actively involved in expanding BCC to 12 choirs and serving over 450 singers with...

David Hodgkins

Recipient of Chorus America’s 2012 ASCAP/Alice Parker Award, conductor David Hodgkins has delighted audiences in the greater Boston area for over 20 years with "creative programs, sung with enthusiasm and tonal beauty". He is the artistic director of Coro Allegro in Boston, artistic director of...

Scott Allen Jarrett

Scott Allen Jarrett is the director of music at Marsh Chapel and the director of choral activities, ad interim at Boston University. He celebrates his eleventh season with the Back Bay Chorale this year. Jarrett is also in his eleventh season as director of choruses and assistant conductor of...

Thomas Kelly

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University, where he served as chair of the music department from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 he was named a Harvard College professor in recognition of his teaching of undergraduates. Before coming to Harvard, he taught at Oberlin...

Deborah Simpkin King

Deborah Simpkin King, conductor and choral arts advocate, works primarily out of Manhattan and northern New Jersey. She is known particularly for her work as an advocate for new choral music/composers; also for creative programming and elements of choral pedagogy. As a guest conductor, she takes...

Gabriela Lena Frank

Gabriela Lena Frank explores her multicultural heritage most ardently through her compositions. Something of a musical anthropologist, she has traveled extensively throughout South America and her pieces reflect and refract her studies of Latin American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology...

Amy Lieberman

Conductor Amy Lieberman is equally at home in choral music, orchestral music, chamber music, and musical theater. She is on the faculty of the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College, where she conducts Kol Arev chamber chorus, coaches art song, and teaches musicianship and conducting....

Jing Ling-Tam

Jing Ling-Tam is a professor of music who has garnered international recognition in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Ling-Tam has conducted over 35 All-State Choirs and numerous American Choral Directors Association national and divisional honor choirs. An innovative and much sought...

Shaw Pong Liu

Violinist and composer Shaw Pong Liu engages communities with creative music and social dialogue by innovating the audience experience of live music. Collaborating with artists from a wide range of disciplines, Shaw Pong creates genre-defying performances which interplay written and improvised...

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