Staff & Board of Directors

KATHY JUDD
Executive & Artistic Director, Violin

M.M.A., Yale University; B.M., New England Conservatory of Music, Wichita State University.

Former member, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Idyllwild Trio, Mariposa Piano Trio; concertmaster, Boulder (CO) Bach Festival, Las Vegas Symphony. Lead commercial musician, Las Vegas. Orchestral, chamber music, festival performances throughout the U.S., Europe, and Taiwan. Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Idyllwild (CA) School of Music and the Arts. Instructor, Elizabethtown College. National and State grants panelist. Executive and Artistic Director, Music at Gretna (PA) chamber music and jazz concert series.

JOHN BECKER
Registrar & Program Associate

M.M., B.M. (voice performance), University of Wisconsin.

Church musician and classical performer. LGBT activist, writer, and blogger. Vice president, GLAA. Guest on major news and political shows including ABC’s World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America; NBC’s Today Show; Fox’s Alan Colmes Show; MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Show and Live with Al Sharpton, and the Associated Press Television Network. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

JEANNE MELLISH
Finance & Communications Director

B.M. (voice performance, psychology), Bucknell University; graduate study (voice performance), Catholic University of America; Certificate (accounting, public relations), University of Virginia.

Arts management and business professional. Managing Director, band non-profit performing association; Managing Director, choral non-profit performing organization; Web Manager & Advertising Administrator, national piano retailer; Education Assistant, national performing arts presenter; Accounting professional, wealth management company.

JACOB TASWELL
Program Assistant

B.A. (music), Yale University.

Taswell is a Bethesda native. He composes jazz and electronic music, and has produced several recordings, including an album on the label New Amsterdam Records. He has previously worked as an intern at New Amsterdam Records and Cuneiform Records. In college, Taswell participated in Yale’s New Music Collective and worked as a peer tutor in music theory.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2019-2020

Carol Bogash, Chair
Matthew B. Canzoneri, Vice Chair
Steven Spurlock, Secretary
David Mihalchik, Treasurer
Virginia Ackerman
Ndenisarya M. Bregasi
Jolie B. Golomb
Sean Iyer
Kathy Judd, Executive & Artistic Director
Dionne Laufman, Faculty Representative
Yoshie Ogawa
Gloria Wang
Tobias Werner
Dudley Winthrop

KATHY JUDD Executive & Artistic Director, Violin

JOHN BECKER Registrar & Program Associate

JEANNE MELLISH Finance & Communications Director

JACOB TASWELL Program Assistant

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

KATHY JUDD
Executive & Artistic Director, Violin

JOHN BECKER
Registrar & Program Associate

JEANNE MELLISH
Finance & Communications Director

JACOB TASWELL
Program Assistant