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JAMES M. KENDRICK
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 to found 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, he has acted as President of Schott Music/European American Music since March 2002.
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 serves as a director of The American Music Center, Inc. and The Alice Ditson Fund at Columbia University, 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. He is a frequent speaker on copyright and music industry business practices both in the US and overseas.
jim.kendrick@eamdllc.com
 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
 SEAN PATRICK FLAHAVEN
Sean Patrick Flahaven is a publisher, writer, composer, orchestrator, conductor, and producer. He is Vice President of Theatre, Standards, and Print for Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. WCM publishes the majority of the Great American Songbook, including Sondheim, Ahrens & Flaherty, Finn, LaChiusa, Maltby & Shire, and Jones & Schmidt, as well as classics from the Gershwins, Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, Styne, Weill, Coward, Comden & Green, Arlen, Mercer, Burke, Lane, and many more. He also oversees all of WCM's printed sheet music and orchestral projects, including pop/rock, as liaison with Alfred Publishing, Hal Leonard, and European American Music/Schott.
Previously he was General Manager and Director of Music and Marketing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide, a new licensing agency. He has produced over 100 shows, concerts, workshops, and readings for major Broadway and off-Broadway companies, including the Shubert Organization, Jujamcyn Theaters, Public Theater/NYSF, Manhattan Theatre Club, O'Neill Theater Center, York Theatre, and Melting Pot Theatre.
His own work has been performed in New York, at regional theatres around the country, and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He has been on the faculty of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program since 2002.
Sean has had the privilege of working with Stephen Sondheim for 12 years on many shows and recordings, including Saturday Night, Do I Hear A Waltz?, Follies, Passion, and Road Show. He has worked on dozens of new musicals with authors such as John Weidman, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, and Mike Reid & Sarah Schlesinger, among others. He was a music editor for Music Theatre International and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.
Sean was an arts journalist and editor for 13 years, with over 200 articles published in The Sondheim Review, Show Music, Playbill, and the former BroadwayOnline.com. He has written liner notes for many albums on Nonesuch and PS Classics, and has produced cast albums and demo recordings.
A native of Minnesota, Sean received degrees in Music and English with multiple honors from Boston College, where he was a Presidential Scholar; an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was an Oscar Hammerstein II Fellow; and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College, where he received several fellowships. Sean lives in Westchester with his wife, Allison, and their sons, Will and Ciaran.
 LAUREN KEISER
Lauren Keiser Music Publishing
Lauren Keiser recently purchased the copyrights and assets of MMB Music and has started Lauren Keiser Music Publishing after running other esteemed music publishers for the last 32 years. Mr.Keiser was the CEO/President of Carl Fischer from 2003-2008 having served as their publisher and Executive VP from 1994. 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. lauren@laurenkeisermusic.com
Sonya Kim
Carl Fischer Music/
Theodore Presser Company
Sonya Kim arrived in the United States at the age of 16 to further her studies in piano at the Juilliard School with Jacob Lateiner. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Music through the Columbia-Juilliard Joint Program. She spent three years in New York working with the Human Capital Strategy Practice at Mercer Consulting before moving to California for a brief foray into the world of software development as the Senior Manager of Strategic Planning at Struxicon. She returned to the East Coast one year later to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School.
In 2004 Kim joined Carl Fischer Music as the Director of Corporate Development and soon expanded her role to work also with the Theodore Presser Company. Kim has played an integral role in restructuring and combining the operations of Theodore Presser Company and Carl Fischer Music. This undertaking included a significant reconfiguration of the King of Prussia warehouse facilities and the concurrent development and installation of a comprehensive software package for both companies. Since 2006, she has been serving as CEO and President of Theodore Presser Company.
As a pianist, Kim has performed at the Salzburg Music Festival, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Bowdoin Music Festival. She currently serves on the Board of Governors of Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut.
skim@presser.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.
 ZIZI MUELLER
Zizi Mueller has been with Boosey & Hawkes since 2007 and prior to that dedicated her career to championing composers and new music. As Founder and Artistic Director of the new music group MOSAIC, Zizi Mueller commissioned and performed new works by a spectrum of international composers throughout the Americas and Europe. As a producer of multi-disciplinary projects centered on music of the present and last century, Mueller has collaborated with director Hans Peter Cloos in the production Cabaret Schoenberg and worked with choreographer Donald Byrd and video artist Vibeke Sorensen. Additionally, Mueller has worked extensively in theater, including projects for celebrated directors Wilford Leach, James Lapine, Andrei Serban and Joseph Papp.
Mueller's experience as a recording producer includes orchestral, chamber and multi-disciplinary/video works for many different record labels. While living in Bogotà, Colombia, Mueller, founded the Colombian Group for Contemporary Music, which toured the country and was recognized as a significant force in the presentation of Latin and North American music.
As a performer, she can be heard on recordings on Naxos, Nonesuch, New World, Newport Classic and other labels. As soloist, she has released a CD for Premiere Records entitled The American Flute, and recorded George Crumb's Idyll for the Misbegotten and Vox Balaenae for New World Records. Ms. Mueller studied at the Juilliard School in both flute and conducting and she has been on the faculties of Fairfield University and the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
 TODD VUNDERINK
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
 RICK WALTERS
Rick Walters is Vice President of Classical and Vocal Publications at Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest print music publisher. The company is also the largest source for classical music publications in the world. He directs publishing, marketing and the business of the division, which includes distribution of G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, Schott, Henle, Ricordi, Editions Durand, Editions Salabert, Novello, Chester Music, and other publishers, as well as Hal Leonard publications. Walters has conceived and directed G. Schirmer publications, in collaboration with G. Schirmer, for over 20 years, including the new series of masterwork editions for piano, Schirmer Performance Editions. He is editor of many Schirmer publications, including the four-volume G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology, 28 Italian Songs and Arias of the 17th and 18th Centuries, G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song, and forthcoming new Samuel Barber centennial editions for piano and voice. He also conceives and directs Boosey & Hawkes publications, in collaboration with Boosey & Hawkes, and is editor of Boosey & Hawkes publications such as Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements, Leonard Bernstein: Art Songs and Arias, The Purcell Collection: Realizations by Benjamin Britten, and the forthcoming three-volume Bernstein Theatre Songs. In his work developing and marketing publications for all instruments, Walters has been responsible for a particular renaissance in vocal music publications, including being editor for more than 70 editions in The Vocal Library, a Hal Leonard series, which include editions of Fauré, Schubert, Brahms, Quilter, Strauss, and many collections, such as the standard-bearing Oratorio Anthology, The French Song Anthology, The Lieder Anthology, andthe five-volume Standard Vocal Literature. Walters is editor of the multi-volumed Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology, the world's most trusted and bestselling source on the topic, and many other musical theatre editions. He is also editor of a 30-volume series of piano music, The World's Great Classical Music. As part of his work at Hal Leonard he has produced hundreds of recordings related to publications, and has often been featured as pianist on these recordings.
In addition to music publishing, Walters is a composer with a central interest in writing for the voice. He has cultivated a distinctive art music style of concert arrangement for voice and piano, widely performed by students and professionals, and published in many Hal Leonard Vocal Library collections. His compositions, including nine song cycles, remain largely unpublished. Richard is a versatile musician who has worked as an opera coach, opera director, music director in musical theatre, church musician, lounge pianist, pit musician and author. For many years he has covered the classical scene in Milwaukee as music critic for the state's principal independent weekly newspaper. Walters was educated with a bachelor's degree in piano from Simpson College, where he studied piano and coaching with Robert Larsen. His graduate studies in composition at the University of Minnesota were with Dominick Argento.
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