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2020 Innovation Artists & Speakers

Marin Alsop

conductor

Doyle Armbrust 

(’01, ’03) violist, Spektral Quartet

Emanuel Ax

pianist

Lawrence Brownlee

tenor

Julia Bullock

soprano

Molly Carr

(’07) violist, arts entrepreneur

Clive Chang

chief of staff & innovation, Lincoln Center; board member, Music Academy of the West

Claire Chase

flutist, arts entrepreneur

Rachel Chesno

strategist, digital & creative Media, 21C Media Group

Sasha Cooke

(’02) mezzo-soprano

Ariel Davis

arts administrator, artist manager

Willem de Koch

trombonist, composer, educator; co-founder, The Westerlies

Simone Dinnerstein

pianist

James Egelhofer

artist manager, First Chair Promotion

Kelly Hall-Tompkins

violinist, social entrepreneur

Jennifer Higdon

composer

Yuki Izumihara

production designer

Juliette Jones

violinist, composer; founder, Rootstock Republic

Marc Bamuthi Joseph 

arts activist, spoken word artist, librettist, speaker

Emil J. Kang

program director for Arts & Cultural Heritage, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Lee Koonce

President & Artistic Director, Gateways Music Festival

Joyce Kwon

singer, composer, teaching artist

Adam Larsen

film maker

Clara Lyon

(’03, ’04) violinist, Spektral Quartet

Jessica Lustig

founding partner and managing director, 21C Media Group

Amanda MacBlane

director of digital and creative media, 21C Media Group

Kathryn McDowell

managing director, London Symphony Orchestra

Tom McNeill

creative partnerships associate, Patreon

Anne Midgette

writer, journalist

Mirrortone Studios

producers/engineers

Helen Meyer

co-founder and executive vice president, Meyer Sound

Paul Moravec

composer, Pulitzer Prize winner

Beth Morrison

Convocation keynote speaker; contemporary opera, music-theater and multimedia artist

Donald Nally

conductor, The Crossing; chorus master, educator

Edwin Outwater

curator, conductor, producer

Anna Petrova

(’17) pianist, arts entrepreneur

Todd Reynolds

violinist, composer and improviser, educator, technologist

Rob Robbins

founder, Alliance Artist Management

Kamala Sankaram

composer, instrumentalist

Pablo Santiago-Brandwein

lighting designer

Nadia Sirota

violist

Adam Sliwinski

percussionist, So Percussion

Tracy K. Smith

U. S. poet laureate

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

oboist, founder, Imani Winds

Amanda Sweet

president, BuckleSweet Media

Michael Tilson Thomas

conductor, music director San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra

Charles Yang

violinist, Time for Three

Francesca Zambello

director of opera and theater

Guest Conductor

Guest Conductor

Christian Reif

conductor

Project Resonance Coaches

Project Resonance Coaches

Derek Katz

writing

Henry Michaels

writing