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 STEPHEN CULBERTSON
President, Subito Music Publishing
Stephen Culbertson has been an advocate of American music as both a publisher and a conductor for more than 25 years. In 1993, he co-founded Subito Music Publishing and became its President in 1997. During that time, Subito has become one of the most active concert music publishers in terms of identifying and promoting both established as well as up-and-coming composers. The catalog has grown quickly and includes composers and arrangers in the concert, jazz and crossover genres. In addition, Subito has kept on the forefront of technology as the production facility for the innovative new series CD Sheet Music™, a vast library of standard repertoire on CD-ROM.
Culbertson has served on ASCAP's Special Classification Committee since 1991 and been the SCC's chairman since 1998.
From 1987 to 1992, he was director of the rental and publications departments for G. Schirmer, Inc., where he supervised the music preparation of, among others, John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles (for the Metropolitan Opera) and Symphony No. 1 (for the Chicago Symphony).
Culbertson has conducted over 30 orchestras, opera productions, and ballet companies, ranging from major to community level, in Europe and the United States. Major engagements include a Spoleto USA debut on the 20th-Century Perspective Series and a new production of Prokofiev's Cinderella for the San Joaquin Ballet in California. In recent seasons, Culbertson has appeared regularly with the Montclair Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia and served as Music Director of the Sussex County (New Jersey) Community Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Bergen (New Jersey) Philharmonic Orchestra. With the latter two orchestras, he conceived and conducted a series of family concerts for the local community to great acclaim.
After graduating from University of the Pacific in his native California, Culbertson was awarded a scholarship to study at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland) with famed conducting teacher Jorma Panula. During his five-year stay, he studied the works of Sibelius with the composer's son-in-law, Jussi Jalas, and conducted most of Finland's major ensembles: The Finnish National Opera, the Helsinki Philharmonic, The Finnish Radio Orchestra, The Vaasa and Tampere Operas, and the Oulu Philharmonic.
Culbertson introduced local Finnish audiences to works by Copland, S.R. Beckler, John Forsman and many others. He introduced local listeners to American music by writing a six-hour series of radio programs entitled "A History of American Music" for the Finnish Broadcast Corporation. As a guest conductor, Culbertson has worked for the Netherlands Opera and appeared in Czechoslovakia (with the Kosice State Philharmonic), Italy, Hungary, and England. sc@subitomusic.com
 LAUREN KEISER
Chief Executive Officer and President, Carl Fischer LLC
Lauren Keiser has been with Carl Fischer since 1995. Mr. Keiser is also the President of the Music Publishers’ Association of the United States, the oldest trade organization in America. Before all this,he served as President/CEO of Cherry Lane Music for several years in the late 1970s through 1985. He also was President/Publisher of Astor Music & Books, publishing products employing Walt Disney, Sesame Street, Looney Tunes, Shining Time Station and Peanuts characters from 1986 to 1994.
He started in the music industry with Sam Ash Music in the early 1970s, becoming their Educational Director and coordinating the retail chain's activities with school districts and institutions in the metropolitan New York area. He joined Alfred Publishing Co. five years later and remained with them until their move to California.
A graduate of Goddard College in Vermont, Mr. Keiser is also a composer whose private composition teachers included Elie Siegmeister, Isaac Nemiroff and Krzyzstof Penderecki. He has edited hundreds of music publications in the popular and concert music arena in addition to his own compositions for chamber groups, wind ensemble and orchestra. As one of the founders of the national celebration, "Music in Our Schools," he has dedicated much of his time to the cause of music education. laurenk@carlfischer.com
JAMES M. KENDRICK
President, Schott Music Corporation/
European American Music Corporation
Trained as an oboist at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, Jim Kendrick began his publishing career in 1977 helping Ronald Freed establish European American Music before studying law. Following graduation from Rutgers Law School in 1983, he has specialized in intellectual property matters with a particular emphasis on the music and audio-visual industries. In addition to practicing law, Jim has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. He rejoined Schott/EAM in March 2002 following the sudden death of Ronald Freed.
Jim became a member of the ASCAP Board of Directors in 2007 and was named Treasurer in 2008. He is on the ASCAP Foundation Board and a member of the ASCAP Symphony and Concert Committee.
Jim is also Secretary and a director of The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The Amphion Foundation, Inc., the Virgil Thomson Foundation Ltd., and The Charles Ives Society, Inc. He also is a director of The American Music Center, Inc. and is secretary to the Koussevitzky music foundations. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The International Association of Entertainment Lawyers and counsel to the Music Publishers Association of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a frequent speaker on copyright and music industry business practices both in the US and overseas.
jim.kendrick@eamdllc.com
 KRISTIN LANCINO
G. Schirmer
Kristin Lancino, Vice President of G. Schirmer, Inc. since spring, 2007 has kept music central to her world since childhood. Trained as a pianist she received a Bachelor of Music and Master of Teaching from Oberlin College. Shortly after arriving in New York City, Lancino worked for Carnegie Hall initially serving as the legendary concert venue’s Director of Education and Director of the International American Music Competition. Her fifteen year career at Carnegie Hall culminated as Director of Artistic Planning where she was responsible for programming the annual concert season including its 1991 Centennial and helped to originate both its Professional Training Workshops and Perspectives series. Upon leaving Carnegie Hall in 2000, she established her own consulting firm which focused on artistic and educational projects for such organizations and musicians as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, the Emerson String Quartet, Music Accord, James Conlon, and WQXR. Kristin Lancino is newly elected to the Board of the American Music Center and is on the ASCAP Symphony and Concert Committee.
 MARC OSTROW
Marc Ostrow is the General Manager of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., having been promoted from Vice President, Business Affairs in October 2006. He is responsible for B&H’s North American operations while continuing to oversee all licensing and contractual matters. Prior to joining B&H in 2004, he was a Senior Attorney at BMI. He is the architect of the company’s expansion into Jazz, signing David Benoit, Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Andrew Hill, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Mingus and a catalog of post-war jazz standards. He has also greatly expanded the company’s synchronization licensing operations, building a sales and licensing team and greatly increasing revenues.
Marc received a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied English and Music and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, a member of the Boards of the Music Publishers’ Association and the NY Chapter of the Association of Independent Music Publishers, a member of the ASCAP Symphonic and Concert Committee and other industry organizations, including AIPLA. He has lectured at Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Long Island University, AIMP, AIPLA and IAJE, among others.
marc.ostrow@boosey.com
 TODD VUNDERINK
Vice President, Southern Music Publishing Co./peermusic
Todd Vunderink is a Vice President of peermusic and the director of peermusic Classical, a publisher of contemporary composers from the United States and Latin America.
He is a past president of the Music Publishers' Association of the United States, and has also served as chairman of the MPA's Performance Committee.
Vunderink serves on the Board of Directors of the Charles Ives Society and the Stefan Wolpe Society. He has an M.A. in music composition from SUNY — Stony Brook. tvunderink@peermusic.com
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