LEADERSHIP
I am the NYC Program Coordinator of New Music Inc at New Music USA and the Executive Director of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival in Harrisonburg, VA. I additionally served as the Executive Director of the MATA Festival in New York City from 2021-2023. Utilizing my strengths as a performer, activist, and administrator, I dedicate myself to leading these organizations through equitable programming, collective community involvement, and event accessibility.
Initiatives I’ve helped facilitate include: a pay-what-you-can ticketing model, deeper relationship building with community members, conversations and action steps for organizational anti-racist work, the first LGBTQ+ pride event at Eastern Mennonite University, a new model of Artistic Director/Artist-In-Residence roles resulting in a collective leadership approach, increased individual giving through meaningful fundraising, and reinvigorated board leadership.
New Music USA
New Music Inc is an incubator program that helps small-budget, artist-led new music groups and organizations in Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City to generate new ideas, strategies and collaborations at pivotal stages in the group or collective’s development. The program provides each participating organization with financial support coupled with 12 to 18 months of hands-on skill-building in a cohort environment intended to foster collective learning and collaboration. In each city, a locally based Program Coordinator will facilitate the program, working closely with participants. Our overarching goal is to create a supportive space through which a cohort of artist-led organizations can learn together, sharing the unique challenges and opportunities they face.
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival
At the intersection of harmony, humanity, and nature, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival gathers internationally-recognized artists and inquisitive audiences to celebrate the life and joy of great music. We like to say “Bach is just the beginning” to share our deep appreciation of the breadth of work influenced by the musical inventions of Bach.
Nestled in beautiful Harrisonburg, VA on Indigenous Siouan, Algonquian and Haudenosaunee land in the Shenandoah Valley, our annual week-long summer festival presents vibrant performances on the Eastern Mennonite University campus and downtown by local artists, the Shenandoah Valley Chamber Orchestra, Baroque Academy Faculty, and Festival Choir. Listeners can attend large and small performances of orchestra and chamber music, family and kids events, poetry readings, music talks, and immersive musical experiences in our parks and nature preserves.