Peer Forums

Peer Forums will break out into separate rooms.

Peer Forums are a way to meet and learn from colleagues who face the same opportunitiesand challenges. At this session, connect with choruses that are similar to yours during facilitated discussions about the issues that are most relevant to your organization.

Children and Youth Choruses: Commonwealth B & C

• Forum Leaders for Budgets up to $250,000: Dail Ritchie, executive director, Berks Youth Chorus and Anne Dugan, Camden program manager, Sister Cities Girlchoir
• Forum Leaders for Budgets over $250,000: Eric Williamson, director of school outreach and conductor, Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Joy Hirokawa, artistic director, Bel Canto Youth Chorus of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem

Professional Choruses: Commonwealth D

• Forum Leaders: Jonathan Bradley, executive director, The Crossing and Lisa Husseini, client strategist, iCadenza

Volunteer Choruses: Millennium Hall

• Forum Leaders for Budgets below $75,000: Mitos Andaya Hart, artistic director, PhilHarmonia and Jesse Parker, artistic director, Voices 21
• Forum Leaders for Budgets of $75,000-$250,000: Eric Banks, composer and founding director, The Esoterics and Mimi Bornstein, director of music ministries, UUCA
• Forum Leaders for Budgets over $250,000: Molly Buzick Pontin, VP and education director, Pacific Chorale and Katie Skovholt, executive director, Seattle Pro Musica