Staff & Board of Directors

KATHY JUDD
Executive & Artistic Director, Violin Faculty

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.

JEANNE MELLISH
Finance 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.

PATRICK D. MCCOY
Development and Communications Manager
Conductor, Washington Conservatory Community Chorus

M.M. Shenandoah Conservatory, B.M. Virginia State University

Former performing arts columnist for Washington Life Magazine’s “Perfect Pitch”, arts coverage for media outlets such as the Washington Post, Early Music America and Classical Voice North America. Has interviewed world-renowned artists including Joshua Bell, Denyce Graves, Lawrence Brownlee, for print media, among others. Various professional memberships include Music Critics Association of North America, American Choral Directors’ Association and The Association Anglican Musicians. His “Across the Arts with Patrick D. McCoy” features numerous performing artists in live and virtual interviews. He has conducted school choirs K-8,, directed various choirs in performances at Washington National Cathedral, Constitution Hall and the National Press Club and serves as Organist and Choirmaster at Saint John’s Episcopal Church – Beltsville, MD. Member of the Shenandoah Conservatory Advisory Board Dean’s Circle, Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America. www.patrickdmccoy.com

ANDREW LAPP
Registrar/Program Assistant

B.A. Colgate University, music major, physics minor

Winner 2020 Lorey Family Senior Music Prize, awarded to senior music major excelling in the history, theory, and composition of music, Benton Scholar (honors program that recognizes student leaders and integrates learning with global international study.) Former Assistant Director, drum teacher, Bach to Rock, a national franchise music school.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dudley Winthrop, Chair
Matthew B. Canzoneri, Vice Chair
Steven Spurlock, Secretary
Gloria Wang, Treasurer
Virginia Ackerman
Ndenisarya M. Bregasi
Elisabeth Currie-Edwards, Community Representative
Jolie B. Golomb
Kathy Judd, Executive & Artistic Director
Dionne Laufman, Faculty Representative
Catherine Lee
Silvia Massetti
Tobias Werner

KATHY JUDD Executive & Artistic Director, Violin Faculty

JEANNE MELLISH Finance Director

PATRICK D. MCCOY Development and Communications Manager Conductor, Washington Conservatory Community Chorus

ANDREW LAPP Registrar/Program Assistant

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

KATHY JUDD
Executive & Artistic Director, Violin Faculty

JEANNE MELLISH
Finance Director

PATRICK D. MCCOY
Development and Communications Manager
Conductor, Washington Conservatory Community Chorus

ANDREW LAPP
Registrar/Program Assistant