Founded in 1942 by Edith Sullivan Golde - Alison Thomas, Interim President

Board of Directors

Officers:

Alison Thomas, Interim President 
Sheila Simpson, Vice President 
Mara Waldman, Vice President 
Young Drago, Registrar/Treasurer;
Terry Eder, Recording Secretary 
Zelma Bodzin, Corresponding Secretary

Committee Chairmen:

Mara Waldman, Gifted Young Pianists Concerto Competition
Sheila Simpson, Artist Student Recital
François Nezwazky, Adult Performers Groups
Kazuko Hayami, Youth Concerts Coordinator, and Youth Concerts, NY
Raj Bhimani, Gifted Young People's Concerts
Mark Pakman, Youth Concerts, NJ
Zelma Bodzin, Concert Series
Deborah Fortier, Teachers Forum Committee

Additional Board Members:

Michael Meltzer
Patricia Sonkin

Staff Positions:

Anita Humer, Librarian
Alison Thomas, Bulletin Editor
Regional Directors:

Anne M. James, Virginia
Boyd McDonald, Canada
James Methuen-Campbell, Great Britain
Mark Pakman, New Jersey
Bernice Soss, Southern States
Jenny Zacharieva, Balkan States

Advisory Council:

Seymour Bernstein
Martin Canin
Bice Horszowski Costa
Jörg Demus
Leon Fleisher
Claude Frank
Olegna Fuschi
Richard Goode
Gary Graffman
Stephen Hough
Douglas Kurz
Erich Leschetizky, President,
Leschetizky Verein, Vienna

Neil McKelvie
Abbey Simon
Ruth Slenczynska
Nina Svetlanova
Margret Tautschnig, President,
Leschetizky Verein, Bad Ischl

Andre Watts


Past Advisers

Leonard Bernstein
Helen O. Coates
Rudolf Firkusny
Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Constance Keene
Jacob Lateiner
Ilse Koller Leschetizky
Karl Ulrich Schnabel
Past Presidents

Edith Sullivan Golde (Founder)
Eleanor Spencer (First President)
Edwina Behre (1949-70)
Genia Robinor (1970-91)
Arminda Canteros (1991-94)
Mara Waldman (1994-2006)
Mark Riggleman (2006-2008)
Sheila Simpson (2008-2010)