Founded in 1942 by Edith Sullivan Golde - Mark Riggleman, president

Board of Directors

Officers:

Mark Riggleman, President 
Mara Waldman, Vice President 
Sheila Simpson, Vice President 
Young Drago, Registrar/Treasurer/Corresponding Secretary 
Francois Nezwazky, Recording Secretary 
Anita Humer, Librarian


Committee Chairmen:

Mara Waldman, Gifted Young Pianists Concerto Competition
Sheila Simpson, Artist Student Concert
Patricia Sonkin, Membership
François Nezwazky, Adult Players Groups
Kazuko Hayami, Youth Players Groups, and Gifted Young People's Concerts, New York Chapter
Mark Pakman, Gifted Young People's Concerts, New Jersey Chapter
Alison Thomas, Publicity and Publications

Additional Board Members:

Raj Bhimani
Zelma Bodzin
Lidia Boguslavsky
Michael Meltzer
Regional Directors:

Marguerite Heller, California
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:

Jack Beeson
Seymour Bernstein
Martin Canin
Bice Horszowski Costa
Jorg Demus
Leon Fleischer
Claude Frank
Olegna Fuschi
Richard Goode
Gary Graffman
Jacob Lateiner
Erich Leschetizky, President,
Leschetizky Verein, Vienna

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
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)