Executive Committee

Emanuel Ax
Pianist

Deborah Borda 
President and CEO
New York Philharmonic
Chair, Avery Fisher Artist Program

Mary Lou Falcone
M.L. Falcone, Public Relations

David Finckel / Wu Han
Artistic Directors
Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center; [email protected]

Henry Fogel
Chicago College of Performing Arts
at Roosevelt University

Anthony Fogg
Bernell Artistic Administrator
Director of Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra

Pamela Frank
Violinist

Jeremy Geffen
Executive and Artistic Director
Cal Performances

Ara Guzelimian
Artistic and Executive Director,
Ojai Music Festival;
Special Advisor, Office of the President,
The Juilliard School

Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist

Anthony McGill
Clarinetist

Chad Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Los Angeles Philharmonic

Matías Tarnopolsky
President and CEO
Philadelphia Orchestra

Shanta Thake
Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Henry Timms 
President and CEO
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Charles Avery Fisher
Nancy Fisher
Philip Avery Kirschner
Advisors

Véronique Firkusny
Executive Director



Joseph W. Polisi
Nathan Leventhal
Mark Schubart (in memoriam)
Chairmen Emeriti