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| Gene Murrow |
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| Gene Murrow, Executive Director - Gene was founder and president of two successful computer companies and has been involved with early music for over 40 years. Following a music degree from Columbia, he toured with the New York Renaissance Band and the Paul Winter Consort. He has coached American Recorder Society Chapters and at early music workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years, and served as ARS President from 1994-2000. A founding member of Early Music America, he currently serves on the Board of Directors. As General Manager of the Early Music Foundation in New York City from 2002-2006, he managed over 40 concerts, 3 tours, and production of 3 CD recordings, and created the first New York Early Music Celebration.
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Paul Ross, Operations - Following a career in publishing, Paul joined GEMS to design and implement effective scheduling and management systems for our organization. For the last 14 years, he was Managing Editor of Ziff-Davis's PC Magazine, where he coordinated the efforts of some 40 professionals in writing, editorial, design, and printing to ensure that the magazine reached newsstands and subscribers on time, twice a month.
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| Wendy Redlinger |
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| Wendy Redlinger, GEMS Live! Senior Artist Representative - Wendy enjoyed a successful career at World Learning and its School for International Training negotiating with organizations around the world for placement of teachers. Fluent in English, Spanish, and German and conversant in French, she began her career as a booking agent by representing the medieval duo Asteria following their winning the 2004 EMA Medieval/Renaissance competition (her son, Eric, is half the duo). Wendy holds a B. Mus. degree in piano performance, and has performed since 1991 with Edmund Brelsford in Ensemble Cordiforme where she sings and plays portative organ and harpsichord.
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Naomi Morse, Assistant - Naomi is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where she performed frequently with the College's early music vocal ensemble. During 2006, she lived in York, England, where she studied ensemble singing with her early music quintet, "Uncloistered." She has also sung and toured internationally with the world music ensemble Northern Harmony. In addition to her professional singing Naomi plays the violin, and is in much demand as a fiddler for traditional contra and English country dances around the country.
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| Herb Katz |
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| Herb Katz, Communications - Herb joined GEMS after a long, successful career in journalism, corporate communications and public relations. He retired after seven and a half years as Communications Director of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Herb worked as a reporter at Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal before holding positions in media relations and corporate and financial public relations for publicly and privately-held firms.
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Bonnie Lassen, Volunteer coordinator - Following a career in library media, Bonnie joined GEMS to support the logistics and production of programs through volunteer participation for our organization. For the last 35 years, she was building and managing library programs in schools in Connecticut and New York. As library media specialist then consultant, she ushered ten school libraries through the transformation from print to electronic information centers.
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| Bonnie Lassen |
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