US Inward Mission: 9 November 2006

 Due to the success of a seminar in November 2005 focusing on Japan, a programme focusing on the United States was presented in collaboration with UK Trade and Investment and the Association of British Orchestras.. US companies represent IAMA’s second largest and newest membership group. Understanding the US market for those outside the country is as important as it is for US members to increase international contact. This was the underlying motivation for mounting this meeting

Date: 9 November 2006; Venue: Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ, London; www.cadoganhall.co.uk

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Speakers: US Delegation

Russell Jones
Russell Jones has been Director of the Association of British Orchestras since July 2002 and has presided over a major redevelopment of lobby, advocacy, information and communication services to 55 professional orchestras. The ABO Annual Conference is the premier classical music conference in the UK attended by some 400 delegates worldwide. Recent initiatives have included the 6 week collaboration with BBC Radio 3 Listen Up! to celebrate the diversity and quality of British orchestras; the creation of ABO Learning to address the training and professional development needs of orchestral administrators and ABO Symposia discussing EU Noise legislation, cultural diversity and Music & Wellbeing.
Russell Jones read British Government, Politics and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury where he also worked with the conductor and musicologist Harry Newstone. In 1981 he became Orchestra Manager of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and began his association with the ABO. In 1986 he was Concerts Manager of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and from 1987 to 1997 was Chief Executive of the National Federation of Music Societies. From 1997-2002 he held a number of appointments at ABSA/Arts & Business including Director of Operations and Director of Policy & Public Affairs and with Ffion Hague created the Arts & Business New Partners programme. From 1995-2000 he was Chairman of the National Music Council. Russell Jones is a former Chairman of the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra and was Vice Chairman of the Academy of Live & Recorded Arts until 2005. He is President of the International Alliance of Orchestral Associations, a Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, a Past Master of the Billingsgate Ward Club, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Lords Taverner and a Chevalier of the Order of Champagne.

Doug Schwalbe
By 1979, when Doug Schwalbe returned to New York to found Schwalbe and Partners, he had an MBA from the Harvard Business School, had worked in the 1950s Madison Avenue world of advertising, and had spent 14 years as the Managing Director of Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his tenure in Cambridge, he initiated and managed, under the auspices of the University, a performing arts series presenting Dance, Drama, Film, Special Attractions and Music. In addition, he was founding director of the Harvard Institute in Arts Administration, and consultant to, among other organizations, the Goethe Institute and UNESCO. In 1976, under the aegis of UNESCO, he was seconded to the Democratic Republic of Somalia and developed at that Government's request a plan for the "Establishment of a School of Fine Arts, Music, and Drama" (UNESCO - Paris 1976). Among his other publications are included "Cases in Arts Administration" and "Conflict in the Arts - the relocation of authority" (Arts Administration Research Institute - Cambridge, Mass). Schwalbe and Partners has offices on East 61 St in Manhattan, and it begins its 2nd quarter century with a roster of some 17 extraordinary artists!

Simon Crookall, President and CEO, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Born in England, and educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he holds a Master of Arts Degree in Economics, and where he was a Choral Scholar at King's College Choir, Crookall spent most of his working life in Scotland, beginning at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and then as General Manager of the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, the 900-seat home of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He was Chairman of the Association of British Orchestras and also served as Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Glasgow before taking over as President and CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on 1 January 2005.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 75th anniversary season in 2004/05. It's a full-time, year-round professional orchestra performing over 200 concerts a year for more than 400,000 people. It is the largest performing arts organization in the state of Indiana, and one of only 18 full-time orchestras in the nation. With an operating budget of $24.6 million for the 2004-2005 season, the orchestra is supported by an endowment of in the range of $103 million. The orchestra has toured internationally and has a substantial discography.
Learning opportunities created by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra consist of multiple initiatives, including the School Partnership Program that enables school teachers to incorporate the arts into the core curriculum, and uses music to help students achieve academic goals dictated by state guidelines. More than one million school children and teachers have attended youth concerts since 1930, often experiencing live symphonic music for the first time.
www.indianapolissymphony.org

Brian Taylor Goldstein
Brian Taylor Goldstein is a principal in the law firm of Fettmann, Tolchin and Majors, P.C., with offices in New York City and Fairfax, Virginia, where his practice concentrates on representing and advising clients in the fields of entertainment and the arts--including television, motion pictures, fine arts, performing arts, publishing, artist management, and non-profit arts related organisations with regard to such matters as intellectual property, licensing, contracts, and obtaining visas for foreign artists and performers. He also serves as general counsel for a number of leading artist managements and is legal affairs advisor to the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents Association.
Mr. Goldstein received a B.A. from George Mason University in 1988 and his J.D. from American University in 1991. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, New York State Bar, American Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association, Lawyers for Non-Profits and the Arts Committee of the Virginia State Bar and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He serves as President of the Northern Virginia Board of Governors of Virginia Opera as well as a member of the Virginia Opera Statewide Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and Arts Grants Review Panel of the Arts Council of Fairfax County as well as a member of the National Performing Arts Visa Task Force, the Arts Presenters Ethics Code Task Committee, the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA), Americans for the Arts, VLA, WALA, and the British & Commonwealth Society of North America. He is the recipient of the WALA 2000 Educational Programs Award and was nominated for a 2003 Outstanding Entertainment Executive of the Year Award by WAMA.

Andrew Yeates, Sheridans
Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and joined Thames Television as Contracts Manager for Thames and its subsidiaries Thames Television International and Euston Films in the same year.
He left Thames in 1987 becoming Company Lawyer for Phonographic Performance Limited and then joining Channel 4 in 1988. He worked with Channel 4 in a number of roles during the next 11 years including as Head of Acquisitions and Business Affairs and finally for 4 years as Corporation Secretary and Head of Rights. In 1999 he joined BPI (the record industry trade association) initially as Director of Legal and Business Affairs and then as Director General from 2000 to 2004.
Andrew helped to set up The Educational Recording Agency in 1989 and served as Chairman from 1995 to 2004. Since then Andrew has continued working with the company as its General Counsel. He is also Chairman of the DCMS Creative Exports Group and a member of the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel.
In 2004 Andrew became Intellectual Property Adviser to the Periodical Publishers Association and since April 2006 has also worked as a consultant to Sheridans solicitors.
www.sheridans.co.uk

Gail Mahood, former Artistic Administrator, Charlotte Symphony. Director of Planning and Orchestra Management, RSNO from Dec 2006
A British-born American, Gale Mahood recently relocated to the UK following 10 years in management positions at the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina. She served most recently as Artistic Administrator under Music Director Christof Perick, during which time the Orchestra expanded its subscription series, added over 60 titles to its repertoire, and hosted US debuts of more than a dozen international artists. Mahood was instrumental in commissioning several premières for the Orchestra, including Daniel Thomas Davis' …And yet they abide, which received a 2006 BMI Student Composer Award, and the upcoming Deus ex machina, a piano concerto by Michael Daugherty.
Mahood holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism and theatre arts from Indiana University, with additional studies in theatre and public policy at the University of Miami and University of North Carolina - Charlotte. In 2000, she participated in the American Symphony Orchestra League's Seminar in Artistic Excellence at the Aspen Festival and School, receiving tutelage in season planning from some of America's top orchestra executives. Prior to joining the field in 1996, Mahood worked as a production assistant for Paramount Show Services and as a freelance set designer and lighting technician in Washington, DC. Her musical studies included violin, which she played as a member of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Currently on cover contract with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as Concerts Administrator, in December she will take up the post of Director of Planning and Orchestra Management with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Maria Guralnik, Van Cliburn Foundation
Maria Guralnik has been General Manager of the Van Cliburn Foundation since 1993 and subsequently overseen the career development for the winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She also serves as artistic administrator for the Foundation bringing internationally renown soloists as well as emerging artists to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex via the Cliburn Concerts series, education programs, and other special projects.
Ms. Guralnik began her professional career at Columbia Artists Management where she assisted in the management of such artists/attractions as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Horacio Gutierrez, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi, and the Orchestre National de France. She has also worked for the American Symphony Orchestra League planning meetings and developing workshops and other education initiatives for its membership.
The daughter of pianist and actor Robert Guralnik, Ms. Guralnik graduated from New York University in 1985 with a major in flute performance and later earned a master’s degree in the management of non-profit organizations from Case Western Reserve University. She is past president of the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents, a service organisation for artist managers and agents.

Welz Kauffman, President and CEO, Ravinia Festival
As president and chief executive officer of Ravinia Festival, Welz Kauffman is responsible for the administration, programming and fiscal well-being of North America's oldest music festival. Building on a three-decade career as an arts administrator for major organisations from coast to coast, Kauffman assumed the presidency of Ravinia in 2000 and quickly established himself as an innovator.
He is known for programming a wide variety of ambitious music rarely heard in a festival setting. Kauffman recently created and launched "Full House," a grass-roots initiative to help build audiences for Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts. In 2003 Kauffman introduced One Score, One Chicago, a partnership with Northwestern University and the Chicago Public Library based on One Book, One Chicago, to get people throughout the region thinking and talking about classical music. The outreach component brings music to children in Chicago's under-served public schools. Kauffman was instrumental in selecting James Conlon, who has just completed his second season as Ravinia's fourth music director.
Ravinia opened its gates for the first time on Aug. 15, 1904 as an amusement park intended to lure riders to the fledgling Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad. The amusement park boasted a baseball diamond, electric fountain and refectory or casino building with dining rooms and a dance floor. Now transformed in what it offers, it's North America's oldest music festival and last year attracted a record 634,000 people to over 150 separate events. The festival, which typically runs from early June through mid September attracts the world's greatest artists in classical, pop, jazz, dance, music theatre and world music, and it has hosted the summer residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1936.
www.ravinia.org

Edward Yim, Senior Vice -President, IMG Artists, New York
Edward Yim is a Senior Vice-President in the Conductors and Instrumentalists Division of IMG Artists. Prior to joining IMG, Mr.Yim served as Director of Artistic Planning for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Leading a team that worked across a wide range of musical genres including classical, jazz, world music, and popular entertainment, he created artistic programming for over 200 concerts per season for the Los Angeles Philharmonic both at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where he was deeply involved in planning the inaugural seasons and at the Hollywood Bowl.
Mr. Yim has also worked for the Cleveland Orchestra, where he served as Artistic Administrator for five seasons, and for The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a graduate of the American Symphony Orchestra League's Management Fellowship Program.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Edward Yim holds an AB in Government from Harvard College and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. He serves on the Board of Directors for the American Music Center in New York City and remains an avid choral singer.

Robert Moir, Vice-President Artistic Planning, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Has the overall responsibility for planning the PSO's classical subscription season, working closely with the Artistic Leadership team of Artistic Advisor Sir Andrew Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Endowed Guest Conductor Chair holder Marek Janowski, as well as with guest conductors and soloists. He has created a Programming Advisory Committee of musicians and staff which has produced a third consecutive season of increased subscription sales. Mr. Moir also oversees the PSO's Composer of the Year program and has commissioned more than forty works for the orchestra. Before becoming a Vice President in 2003, Mr. Moir was Artistic Administrator of the PSO since 1989, working closely with Music Directors Mariss Jansons and Lorin Maazel.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been in the top rank of international orchestras for over one hundred years. With a lineage of music directors that includes Otto Klemperer, Victor de Sabata, Fritz Reiner, William Steinberg, Andre Previn, Lorin Maazel, and Mariss Jansons, the Pittsburgh Symphony has established a legacy of excellence that continues today with Artistic Advisor Sir Andrew Davis. The orchestra tours internationally and is the only American orchestra to have performed at the Vatican, in a concert celebrating the Silver Jubilee of Pope John Paul II in January 2004. The PSO also performs regularly in Carnegie Hall, New York, and on frequent domestic tours. In addition, the Pittsburgh Symphony is heard throughout American on Public Radio International.
www.pittsburghsymphony.org

Monica J. Felkel, Director of Artist Management, Young Concert Artists, Inc.
Monica began her career in 1989 at Young Concert Artists where she currently serves as the Director of Artist Management of the non-profit organization which discovers and develops the careers of extraordinary musicians. She is responsible for negotiating and securing concert engagements, commissions and educational outreach activities for a roster of instrumentalists, vocalists and composers and guiding each artist's career.
A frequent panelists and moderator at industry conferences throughout the U.S. she has been profiled in Double Bassist Magazine and interviewed for articles on guest artist residencies, immigration issues and developing emerging artists and young composers for Symphony Magazine, International Arts Manger, Muso Magazine and New Music Box.
Currently Monica co-chairs the Professional Development Committee of the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA) having served on the Board of Directors, as Vice President from 1998 to 2000 and then as President from 2000 until 2003. As Immediate Past President she chaired the Nominating Committee for two years.
An avid chamber musician and violist these days she can be found exploring the coral reefs around the world as an enthusiastic SCUBA diver.
www.yca.org

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