GENE PRITSKER, DAN COOPER - DIRECTORS
MILICA PARANOSIC, PETER JARVIS, DEBRA KAYE,
SETH BOUSTEAD, AUDREY MORSE - ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
Board of Directors
Guitarist / Composer, Founder, Cygnus Ensemble
• Evan Ambinder, MBA
Musician / Director of Business Development,
CNN Money
Musicologist / Composer / Retired, Chief, Music Division,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Royce Buggelli, MBA
Financial Technology and Business Strategy Consultant
Composer / Flutist, Imani Winds
Composer / Educator, The New School
Agile Project Manager
Financial Technology Consultant
• David Freedman
Engineer, Bloomberg
Trombonist / Composer
• Brenda Hochberg, J.D.
Lead Systems Analyst, H&R Block
Artist / Composer
Director of Corporation For Independent Media.
Writer, director and producer, BBC
Dancer / Actress
Composer / Educator, Columbia University
Violinist
Writer / Filmmaker / Author
Founding Directors
• Joseph Pehrson - Composer
• Patrick Hardish - Composer
Staff
• Seth Boustead - Associate Director, Composer / Pianist
• Alexander von Busch - Photographer
• Dan Cooper - Director, Composer / Multi-Instrumentalist / Educator, SUNY
• Graham Elliott - CEO and Creative Director at Fovea Films LLC - Video
• Robert C. Ford - Editor, Marketing Manager, Poet
• Velizar Iordanov - Audio Production
• Peter Jarvis - Associate Director, Composer / Percussionist / Educator,
Bergen Community College, Connecticut College
• Erik T. Johnson - Editor, Marketing Manager, Poet
• Debra Kaye - Associate Director, Composer / Educator, Mannes School of Music
• Salem Krieger- Video
• Moti Margolin - Video
• Audrey Morse - Associate Director, Composer / violinist
• Milica Paranosic - Associate Director, Composer,
Founder/President, Paracademia Center, Inc.
• Max Pollak - Dance Director, Tap Dancer / Body Percussionist, RumbaTap
• Gene Pritsker - Director, Composer
• Sheldon Steiger - Audio Production
• Marina Vesic - Online Promotions Director
2025 - 2026 Interns
• Zachary Gindi-Chiafullo
• Eoin O'Mara
• Bhavya Prakash
• Maria Galinich
Advisory Board
Artistic Director, Project 142
Violinist / Composer / Educator,
Greenwich House Music School
Composer / Educator, NYU
Artist / Musician
Composer / Jazz Horn Player
Composer / Pianist / Vice President,
Credit Risk Technology, Bank of America
• Adrienne Connelly
Art Agent
Vocalist / Educator
• Peter Fokas
Agile Project Manager, Bloomberg
Composer
Composer / Trumpeter
Composer
Composer / Pianist /
Business Automation & AI Agents
Pianist
Flutist
Composer / Percussionist
Violinist
Poet / Film Maker
Composer / Multimedia Producer, Ernst & Young
Artist, Gallery MC
Vocalist
Director, Klavierhaus
Composer / Saxophonist
Executive director, GOH Productions,
Manager/Absolute Ensemble
• William Schimmel
Accordionist / Composer
Director, 92nd Street Y School of Music
Bass Trombonist
Composer / Pianist
Percussionist / Educator
Senior Manager, Public Programs,
The American Museum of Natural History