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Board of Advisors David Cerone began his violin studies with his father continuing with Mischa Mischakoff. He studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music with the renowned pedagogue Ivan Galamian. Prior to his appointment as President of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Cerone has served on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music,Chairman of the CIM String Department, faculty at Curtis Institute and Director of the Meadowmount School of Music. Mr. Cerone and his wife, violinist Linda Cerone, founded the nationally acclaimed ENCORE School for Strings. A regular performer, he has adjudicated national and international violin competitions such as the Indianapolis International Violin Competition and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. Ronald A. Crutcher is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A native of Cincinnati, he began studying the cello at the age of fourteen with Elizabeth Potteiger and won the Cincinnati Symphony Young Artist Competition at age seventeen. As a Woodrow Wilson and Ford Foundation Fellow, he continued his studies with renowned cellist Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Dr. Crutcher began his administrative career as Acting Assistant and, eventually, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From 1990-1994, he served as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Conservatory at The Cleveland Institute of Music. From 1994-1999, Dr. Crutcher served as Director of the School of Music and the Florence Thelma Hall Chair in Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Matthew Derr is Dean for Admission and Placement at Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. In addition, to his administrative work, Mr. Derr has taught art history at Walnut Hill. He founded the Unified Application for Conservatory Admission and co-founded the Sphinx Performance Academy at Walnut Hill. He has also been a consultant on school and collegiate enrollment and a panelist at national and international conferences. He currently serves as the Educational Advisory Board at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and as a representative on the postgraduate task force of the Epiphany School. Mr. Derr earned his B.A. from Antioch College (further studies, Massachusetts College of Art). Roberto Diaz, one of today's most sought-after violists, excels in a wide range of musical endeavors. In addition to solo appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, he is in constant demand as a chamber musician and teacher. Roberto Diaz has served as Professor of Viola at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University. He currently holds the distinguished position of Principal Violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Dominique-Rene deLerma is currently on the music history faculty of the Conservatory of Music at Wisconsin's Lawrence University. He has been engaged in university teaching since 1951, when, not yet having been accorded his B.M. Degree in music theory, he became the youngest member ever of the University of Miami's faculty. Subsequently, he accepted appointments at Indiana University and Morgan State University. He has also served on the faculties of Northwestern University, Florida State University, the University of Oklahoma, and, as Visiting Professor in Library Science, at Kent State University. Prior to his appointment with Lawrence University, he was Director of the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago. Anthony Elliott is an accomplished cellist who has combined admirable careers in performance and teaching for more than two decades. A protegé of Janos Starker and Frank Miller, he won the Feuerman International Cello Solo Competition, which was followed by a highly successful New York recital. He is a frequent guest soloist with major orchestras, including those of Detroit, Minnesota, Vancouver and CBC Toronto. Mr. Elliott has been a guest artist at the Alaska Sitka Summer Music Festival, New York's Bargemusic Chamber Series, Musicorda, Blossom Music Festival and the Victoria International Festival. Mr. Elliott joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1994 and holds a performance certificate and music degree, with honors, from Indiana University. Sandra Gibson is the President and CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. Prior to becoming the head of Arts Presenters this past July, she served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Americans for the Arts. Ms. Gibson's educational experience includes a dual Bachelor's Degree in Music Education and Instrumental Performance from Wittenberg University, located in her home state of Ohio, and a Masters of Music Degree in Historical Musicology and Performance from Northwestern University. Juanita Wallace Jackson is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Miami University (Ohio), with a B.S. in education and an M.Ed. in supervision and administration respectively. Ms. Jackson has also had a full and varied career. She served as the first director of Albany-Colonie Business Maintenance Organization, a small business development center headquartered at the State University of New York at Albany. Among other positions, Ms. Jackson has served as the Executive Director of the Schoharie County Child Development Council. Polly Kahn is Vice President of the American Symphony Orchestra League & Director of the Orchestra Leadership Academy. Previously Ms. Kahn joined the New York Philharmonic in 1994 as Director of Education, after having served as Director of Education for the Tisch Center for the Arts of the 92nd Street Y, Assistant Director of the Lincoln Center Institute, and as a national arts-in-education consultant. Christopher Kendall is the Dean of the School of Music at the University of Michigan as well as Professor of Conducting. He has a Bachelor's in Music from Antioch College and a Master's in Music (Orchestral Conducting) from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music. From 1996 to 2005 Dean Kendall was the Director of the University of Maryland School of Music. Prior to 1996, he was associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony (1987-1993) then director of the Music Division and Tanglewood Institute of the Boston University School of the Arts. Since 1975 he has been the conductor and artistic director of the 20th Century Consort, ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution, and since 1978 founder and lutenist of the Folger Consort, early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Christian Matjias is Professor of Dance and Music and Co-Music Director for the Dance Department and Ann Arbor Dance Works. He received B.A. and M.M. degrees, with Honors, in Harpsichord and Early Music Performance from the University of Southern California. A versatile concert performer on piano, harpsichord, and organ, he is a frequent collaborative partner in dance, chamber music, vocal music, jazz, and composer in electronic medium. He has worked with New York City Ballet principal dancers Maria Tallchief, Edward Villella, as well as a number of principal dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company. He has served on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Academy and produced two internationally received discs Standing Alone and Suites for Dance, Works for Cello and Piano. Lolita Mayadas, educated at Queens College and the Royal College of Music, London, U.K., is an experienced pianist and teacher who has performed extensively in U.K., Germany, the United States and in her native India. She has held several senior executive positions, including: Director of the Calcutta School of Music, Director of the Grove Dance Theatre, Miami, and others. She was appointed Executive Director of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts in 1981 and held that position until she retired in 2001. Ms. Mayadas has participated at national and international conferences on music education by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New World Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic, the European Music Union, among others. Charlene Jones Mitchell is President of the Minerva Education & Development Foundation and former Director of External Affairs at SBC Ameritech and received her B.A. in History and Political Science with Honors at Talladega College in Alabama and her M.A. in Urban Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. She has extensive experience in community relations and leadership, economic development, media relations, corporate contributions, marketing support, lobbying and events planning. In addition to her roles with Sphinx and Minerva, Ms. Mitchell is a Leadership Detroit Alumni and serves on the African American Legacy Committee of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Lester Monts is Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs at the University of Michigan and also holds the position of Professor of Musicology. He has held previous positions as administrator and faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Bachelor of Arts in music from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a Master's Degree in music from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota. He has also served on the faculties of Edinboro University, the University of Minnesota and Case Western Reserve University. Willis Patterson is former Professor of Voice and Associate Dean of the University of Michigan's School of Music. He joined the faculty of the School of Music in 1968 after having taught at Southern University and Virginia State College. He also serves as President of the National Association of Negro Musicians and as Executive Secretary of the National Black Music Caucus. He was a Fulbright Fellow and winner of the Marian Anderson Award for young singers. Juan Ramirez, founding member of the Atlanta Virtuosi Foundation Inc., began his studies in Mexico with Vivo Valenti and Vladimir Vulfman. His studies with Henryck Szeryng began at the age fourteen and continued as Szeryng became his principal mentor. Mr. Ramirez studied with Joseph Silverstein, as well as performing under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Service in the Boston and Pittsburgh Symphonies preceded his acceptance of a permanent position with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ramirez plays the guitar, mandolin and marimba and, in addition to being a composer. He currently serves on the advisory boards of both the New World Symphony and Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestra, as well as directing the Buckhead Youth Orchestras in Atlanta, GA. Stephen Shipps is an accomplished violinist who studied with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, where he received a B.M., an M.M. with honors and a Performer's Certificate. He also studied with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School and with Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Mr. Shipps has adjudicated major national and international competitions for almost two decades. He served on the faculties of Indiana University, the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Banff Centre in Canada before joining the University of Michigan's School of Music as a Professor of Violin and Chair to Council of Departmental Representatives. Albert K. (Nick) Webster had a 30 year career in orchestra administration concluding with 15 years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic as Managing Director and Executive Vice-President from 1975 to 1990. An independent arts consultant since 1991, his clients have included numerous orchestras, associations and non-profit institutions. He serves as a director of many institutions including the American Symphony Orchestra League, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival. An avowed Maineac and general aviation pilot, he and his wife, Sally, a Professor of Art History at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, live in New York City on Manhattan=s upper West Side.
Ruben Acosta serves as Chair of the Sphinx Board. He is co-manager and founding member of the diverse business law firm Williams Acosta, PLLC based in Detroit. As a business counselor and trial lawyer, Mr. Acosta has practiced before both state and federal courts, including the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Born in Cuba and fluent in Spanish, Mr. Acosta has represented Latin American companies and citizens involved in transnational commercial disputes in the United States and abroad. He serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development. He graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1982 and is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law. Jenice Mitchell Ford serves as the Vice Chair of the Sphinx Board. Ms. Mitchell is an Associate in the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner and is a member of the firm's Litigation Department serving in the General Commercial Litigation, Business Reorganization and Labor & Employment Practice Groups. Ms. Mitchell formerly worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Anthony Glover serves as Treasurer of the Sphinx Board. Mr. Glover is Senior Vice President, Retail Financial Services - Consumer Banking, JPMorgan Chase. As Midwest Regional Manager, Tony Glover is responsible for over 400 Chase branches in Indiana and Michigan. With more than 20 years' experience in financial services, Glover has been with Chase and its predecessor, Bank One, for more than eight years. Before becoming Midwest Regional Manager, Mr. Glover served as a Market Manager in the Chicago West and Central Illinois markets, and a District Manager in Chicago. Mr. Glover held positions of increasing responsibility at American Express from 1984 to 1998, culminating in his appointment as Vice President and Controller of the Southern Region. Mr. Glover has a B.S. Degree in Accounting from Florida A & M University. Judge Kurtis T. Wilder serves as Secretary of the Sphinx Board. Judge Wilder serves as one of 28 judges on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Previously, Judge Wilder was Chief Judge of the Washtenaw County Trial Court. Before taking the bench, Judge Wilder practiced law with the law firms of Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (Lansing) and Butzel Long, P.C., (Detroit). He graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. degree in Political Science in 1981, and from the University of Michigan Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1984. Judge Wilder holds memberships in the State Bar of Michigan; the Fellows of the Michigan State Bar Foundation; the Michigan Judges Association; the Association of Black Judges of Michigan; the Federalist Society, Lawyers Division-Michigan Chapter; and the Wolverine Bar Association. Deidre Bounds is Managing Partner at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing. With over 13 years of marketing and communictions expertise she is responsible for daily agency management as well as strategic implementation of the agency's overall goals and objectives. An enthusiastic volunteer, currently Deidre serves on the board of ArtServe Michigan and isva member of County Executive Ficano’s Women’s Advisory Group. She has also been extremely active as a Detroit Discovery Museum board member; coordinated the City of Detroit Volunteer Image Team; and heads the agency’s externship program with the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit. Betty W. Brooks is a Patron of the Arts and a tireless community services leader. Mrs. Brooks was appointed by Governor John Engler to a 3rd term as a member of the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, and she is an Advisory Committee Member for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Opera Theater and the Lewis College of Business. She also is a Board Member on the Advisory Board for the Metro Parent Publishing Group (African American Family Magazine). Mrs. Brooks was selected Board Member of the Year in 1998 by the Michigan Federation of Private Child and Family Agencies and was Chair of the 2002 National Assembly of State Arts Agency Annual Conference. Also, she serves on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation, Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Plow Shares Theater, the Strand Theater Center, and she is Chair of the Council for African American Dance at the Detroit Opera House.Phil Cole brings extensive experience in the areas of fund-raising and overall development strategy to the Board of Directors. Having worked in development and promotion in a variety of capacities at the University of Michigan, Mr. Cole is former Assistant Regional Director of Major Gifts in the University of Michigan's Office of Development. In addition to these wide-ranging fundraising skills, Mr. Cole has worked in a volunteer capacity for many area non-profit organizations and brings that wealth of knowledge to the Board as well. A long-time Ann Arbor resident, Phil Cole is also a graduate of the University of Michigan. Martha Darling is an education policy consultant based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to moving to Ann Arbor in 1998, Ms. Darling was a Senior Program Manager at The Boeing Company in Seattle, from which she retired in 1999. She joined Boeing in 1987, with assignments in 747 Program Management, Commercial Airplane Government Affairs and Boeing's Corporate Offices, where she supported the CEO and other executives in their leadership roles in public education reform at the state level and in Seattle. A northwest native, Ms. Darling is a graduate of Reed College and of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Aaron Dworkin is Founder and President of the Sphinx Organization. An accomplished electric and acoustic violinist, he received his Bachelors of Music and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, graduating with high honors. A member of the Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lamda National Honor Societies, Mr. Dworkin is a recipient of the MLK Spirit Award. He previously attended the Peabody Institute, the Philadelphia New School and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has studied with Vladimir Graffman, Berl Senofsky, Jascha Brodsky, John Eaken, Renata Knific, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps. Additionally, Mr. Dworkin studied piano with Robert Alexander Böhnke in Tübingen, Germany. More info ---> Kenneth C. Fischer is President of the University Musical Society (UMS) at the University of Michigan, a position he has held since June 1, 1987. In addition to his position at UMS, Mr. Fischer has contributed to the performing arts presenting field as a speaker, workshop leader, writer, consultant, and conference chair as well as a site visitor and panelist for many public and private grant programs. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Chamber Music America, American Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest. He is the author of "Little Big Winners: 77 Ideas for a Better Conference" and of several articles. Al McDonough (C.F.P.) is a professional in the accounting field where his experience includes several years in the financial management field, including nineteen years as a self-employed accountant/ financial planner in Ann Arbor, MI. His certifications include Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Accreditation of Certified Accountants (ACAT), Securities-Series 7 License and an Enrolled Agent to Practice Law before the Internal Revenue Service (EA). Daedra A. Von Mike McGhee is Director, Government and Business Affairs, Office of the Governor of Michigan. Director McGhee's career includes being honored as one of 100 Outstanding Women in the City of Detroit, recognized by the Detroit City Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, former Governor John Engler, and former United States Attorney General Janet Reno for outstanding police community relations programs including effective programs to reduce youth violence in middle schools, and served as a member of the Detroit Grant Team that successfully received funding for the City of Detroit from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Detroit's Health and Safety of Children Initiative. A member of Women of Wayne, and the board of directors of Wayne State University's Center for Peace and Conflict Studies CLL Alumni Association, Daedra is pursuing a dual Masters-PhD of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. David Ericson Rudolph is a consultant and president and CEO of D. Ericson & Associates Public Relations. Before founding D. Ericson & Associates, David worked in the corporate communications and community relations department for the Palace Sports & Entertainment and the Piston-Palace Foundation. While at the Detroit Pistons David initiated groundbreaking programs such as the PARK Program - Partnership to Adopt and Renovate Parks for Kids an $8 million project to renovate selected public parks in the city of Detroit. David Rudolph has a Master of Science degree in International Affairs from Florida State University and Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. In addition, he is a graduate of Indiana University's Leadership Works Fundraising Program and Wayne State University's Essentials in Fundraising program. In 1996 David was one of three awarded a National Society of Fundraising Executives Minority Fellowships. Beverly Willis, after graduating from the University of Michigan's Art School, worked for several regional agencies, designing publications and overseeing a variety of marketing and public relations responsibilities. In 1981, she co-founded BBA Graphic Design, a full-service marketing company which presently offers services to various businesses and organizations, including the University of Michigan and the Jim Bradley Automotive Group.
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