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Music Advisory Board

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Changing the World Through Music

The Music Advisory Board supports the Music Department at Hunter College, which prepares students for a life-long relationship with music that respects the depth and diversity of its expressive power and cultural impact.

Music Advisory Board Members

Frayda Lindemann ‘60 – Chair, Vice President, Metropolitan Opera Association, head of Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Met; Former Instructor in Music at Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Music History at Hunter College
Diane Volk – Co-Chair, Hunter College Foundation Trustee; Former attorney; Violinist and pianist
Robert Appel, Founder and President, Appel Associates; Chairman, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Martina Arroyo ‘54, Lyrico-spinto soprano and opera singer, former member of the Metropolitan Opera Company; President and Artistic Director, The Martina Arroyo Foundation; Trustee of the Hunter College Foundation, 1993-2003
Alberto Cribiore, Former Vice Chairman of Institutional Clients Group at Citigroup Inc., Advisory Director of the Metropolitan Opera Association
Anthony DeCurtis ‘74, Author and music critic
Michael Frankfurt ‘57, Partner and Founder, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Hunter College Foundation Trustee
David Handler, Co-Founder, Le Poisson Rouge
Oliver Houser ‘15, Composer, writer, and actor; Member, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
Josh Howard, News and documentary producer and director; former Executive Producer of the weeknight edition of 60 Minutes and VP of Long Form Programming for CNBC
Sarah Johnson, Director, Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall
Joel Katz ‘66, Entertainment attorney and founding shareholder at Greenberg Traurig
Richard Kessler, Dean, Mannes School of Music, The New School
Jonathan Leader, Former President, Usdan Center for the Arts
Karen T. LeFrak ‘86, Composer; Trustee, New York Philharmonic
Barbara Murray ‘99, Director, Office of the Arts and Special Projects for the NYC Department of Education
Paola Prestini, Composer and impresario; Creative and Executive Director, National Sawdust; Co-Founder, VisionIntoArt
Marc Scorca, President and CEO, OPERA America
Joan Schiele ‘58, Member, Breast Cancer Research Fund, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, New York City Opera, and Lincoln Center
Heidi Waleson, Opera Critic, Wall Street Journal
Bill Whelan, Composer, producer, and arranger
Theodore Wiprud, Vice President of Education, New York Philharmonic
Judy Zankel ‘67, Hunter College Foundation Trustee; Former President and current member of the Executive Committee, Society of Illustrators; Trustee, Carnegie Hall