Project Director, Product Manager, Writer/Editor, Musicologist, Researcher

PROFILE

Highly creative and accomplished recording industry professional with over 18
years experience in product development, management and editorial services.
 * Flexible problem solver with ability to lead multiple projects successfully
and take on challenging roles.
 * Creates teams - with in-house coworkers as well as outside vendors - to
produce exceptional work in time-critical projects.
* Highly experienced writer and editor working in divergent musical fields.
* Excellent analytical thinker.
* Builds cordial, close working relationships with artists, managers, producers
and designers.
 * Shows excellent diplomatic skills in all internal and external business
matters.
 * Manages and participates in the development of sophisticated written and
graphical packaging materials.
 * Expert musicologist with a focus in early German 19th-century repertoire.
 * Experienced public communicator and speaker.
 * Established researcher. Well-versed in German.

WORK EXPERIENCE

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT / BMG CLASSICS 1989 - 2009

Senior Director - Product Development * Sony Masterworks February 2005 - March
2009
 * Developed and managed complex CD projects for both US and international
release.
 * Coordinated all details of planning and production with in-house staff,
artists, contractors and overseas subsidiaries. Enthusiastically engaged with
individual project subject matter.
 * Managed two, part-time assistants, overseeing work daily. Gave detailed,
appropriate direction and worked with easy rapport.
 * Saved company considerable overhead by tackling projects in-house rather than
outsourcing.
 * Created detailed delivery schedules for all product components.

Director - Editorial Services * BMG Classics January 2004 - February 2005
 * Implemented 70 international releases for classical RCA Red Seal label,
including CDs, SACDs, DVDs and Dual Discs.
 * Expert in creating multi-disc sets.
 * Coordinated production and release with international affiliates, assuring
timely delivery of all packaging components. Provided comprehensive assistance in
the preparation of projects for German label deutsche harmonia mundi.
 * Supervised translation for comprehensive trilingual liner notes. Worked on
projects with as many as five languages and complex organization, to significant
acclaim.

Director - Editorial Services * Arista Associated Labels/BMG Classics March 2003
- January 2004
 * Managed notes, legal clearances, libretti and all other packaging elements on
all US-initiated Classics projects.
 * Supervised editorial and packaging components for all AAL labels - Windham
Hill, Bluebird, Private Music and Victor.
* Releases included classical repertoire, jazz, crossover, soul and adult
music.
* Oversaw assistant. Coordinated work with all company departments.

Director - Editorial Services * RCA Victor Group/BMG Classics March 2001 - March
2003
Associate Director - Editorial Services * RCA Victor Group/BMG Classics May 1999
- March 2001
 * Ultimate responsibility for all printed materials accompanying CD packaging
with meticulous attention to details of content and style.
 * Negotiated agreements with other record companies for notes, libretti and
song texts.
* Spear-headed project development and coordinated with contractors doing
graphics.

Managing Editor * RCA Red Seal/BMG Classics March 1996 - May 1999
Literary Editor * RCA Red Seal/BMG Classics 1989 - 1996
 * Organized and verified production materials including the writing and editing
of CD liner notes.
 * Distributed written materials to ancillary editors from musicologists in
multifarious fields to meet tight deadlines for creation of CD packaging.
 * Prepared accurate computer files for typesetting to consistent deadlines.

EARLY CAREER
Instructor - Music History * Mannes College of Music, New York City * 1987
Research Assistant * Research Center for Musical Iconography, New York City *
1985 - 1987

EDUCATION

Concluding Ph.D. dissertation: "Robert Schumann's opera Genoveva and the Telling
of a Tale." City University of New York: Graduate School (expected graduation,
October, 2010).
Intensive German: Columbia University.
Master of Philosophy: City University of New York. Graduate School.
Master of Music (Musicology): University of Melbourne, Australia.
Bachelor of Music (Piano & Musicology): University of Melbourne, Australia.
Licentiate in Music (Piano): Australian Music Examinations Board.

PUBLICATIONS
 * Booklet notes for compact disc releases on RCA Red Seal label on topics
including Mozart piano concertos, music of Chopin, Richard Strauss tone poems,
and Rachmaninoff piano concertos: 1987-1999.
 * Co-editor: RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography: No. 2: Art Institute of
Chicago (New York, 1987); The Frick Collection (New York, 1987).
 * Annotations for Joseph Mertin's Alte Musik: Wege zur Auffu hrungspraxis
(Vienna, 1978 / English translation, New York, 1986).
 * Fifteen articles on various American music topics (including Henry Cowell
work-list) for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (New York, 1986).
 * Transcriber and editor of Franz Cristoph Neubauer's Symphony: La Bataille
(Garland Press, New York, 1985).
 * "Further Annotations to Bach: Air from Overture No. 3 in the Sibley Library
Manuscript Collection" The Grainger Journal III/1 (Melbourne, August 1980).
 * "Further Additions and Amendments to the Listing of Percy Grainger's
Compositions for Piano Solo" Studies in Music, XIV (Perth, 1980).
 * "Additions to Teresa Balough's Cataloguing of Percy Aldridge Grainger's
Compositions for Piano Solo" Studies in Music, XIII (Perth, 1979).
 * "Percy Grainger's Concert Repertoire" The Grainger Journal II/1 (Melbourne,
July 1979).

Papers Read
 * "Musicology and the Recording Industry," Occidental College, Los Angeles,
October 21, 2001.
 * "The Genesis of the Libretto for Robert Schumann's Genoveva," American
Musicological Society Conference, Greater New York Chapter, January 22, 2005
 * "Robert Schumann and the Search for German Opera," Conference "New Paths":
Robert Schumann 1848-1856. McGill University, Montreal, September 24, 2007

AWARDS
Belle Zeller Trust Fund Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Community
Service, CUNY Graduate School: 1985 * New York State Fellowship, CUNY Graduate
School: 1982 - 1984.
University of Melbourne, Australia: Research Grant * Post-Graduate Research
Scholarship * A.E. Nickson Traveling Scholarship * Lizette Bentwitch Traveling
Scholarship * Trinity College Choral Exhibition * University College Major
Scholarship * Post-Graduate Research Scholarship * F. W. Homewood Scholarship *
Ivy May Pendlebury Award * Rosemarie Kenny Prize (piano) * Ormond Exhibition

AFFILIATIONS & ACTIVITIES
American Musicological Society - Member
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences - Member
Dorot (Non-profit agency for senior support) - Volunteer Services