FOUNDER
Arlene Shrut
Founder & Artistic Director
A faculty member of The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Arlene is an admired keyboard performer hailed as a “strong and sensitive pianist” by The New York Times. She was honored in 2003 as the inaugural “Coach of the Year” in Classical Singer Magazine. Arlene has collaborated with such vocal artists as Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson and has recorded on the Dorian, Centaur, Orion, Summit and Albany Records labels. Among her credits is “Songs of Hugo Wolf”(with Daniel Lichti on Dorian CDs), which received a Canadian Grammy nomination. Her most recent CD release is titled “The Unquiet Heart”. This recording, with Karen Smith Emerson, soprano, features four American song cycles and was released early in 2007 on Albany Records. Arlene often serves as official pianist for many of NY’s top vocal events, and has performed in such venues as Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The National Gallery, The Phillips Collection and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She has toured extensively in Europe and across North America.
Arlene created New Triad in 2002 to promote a new approach to classical music concerts by heightening the aural, visual and emotional elements, creating a more meaningful experience for performers and audiences alike. In terms of revitalizing the song recital, Arlene is dedicated to unlocking the universal messages in poems set to music, creating dramatically synthesized programs and forging fully collaborative musical partnerships between singers and pianists. Over the last twenty years she has been involved with co-producing innovative song programs including New Triad’s “Coming Home” and “The Measure of Our Years”. Others include, “Lieder across the Sundial”, “Women’s Words: An American Songbook”, “Forever: Enduring Poems in American Song”, “Days of a Man”, “Cubism/Synchronism in Song”, and “A Musical Banquet: from Hors d’oeuvres to Espresso”.
In addition to New Triad, Arlene likewise founded the National Association of Accompanists and Coaches, co-founded the Seal Bay Festival in Maine, and authored an entire series of multimedia scripts under the name of Classical Concepts. She formerly served on the faculties of Syracuse University, Mannes College of Music, and The Aspen Music School.
Arlene Shrut earned two solo piano degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctorate in Accompanying from the University of Southern California. In 1981, she received a Fulbright grant to Germany in vocal coaching, and has mentored with the most distinguished teachers of her time. Arlene makes her home on the Upper West Side of New York City.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Kate Nesbit, President, is a professional singer and former manager of a mystery bookstore in New York City.
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James Dunlop, Esq., Vice President, is an associate at King & Spalding in the Intellectual Property group and specializes in trademark counseling.
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Susan Lochner, Secretary, is a classical singer and teacher of English As A Second Language in the Hawthorne School District, Hawthorne, New Jersey. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College in New York City.
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Mary Barker Evans has extensive experience both in the business world and as a performing artist. She also was the founder of Houston Opera Theater, and has served in management positions of multiple Houston charities.
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Jamil French, Esq. is Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Sandell Asset Management Corp. Prior to joining Sandell, Jamil was an associate at the law firms of Seward & Kissel LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
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Arlene Shrut, Ex-officio, is the Founder and Artistic Director of New Triad for Collaborative Arts and serves on the Faculties of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.
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ADVISORY BOARD
Richard Adams, Vice President/Dean of Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
Steven Blier, Co-Founder and Co-Director New York Festival of Song
William Bolcom, International Composer, premieres include Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera
Eric Booth, Teaching artist and national consultant on arts learning and arts organization leadership and former Artistic Director of Mentoring at The Juilliard School
Katherine Ciesinski, International Opera and Recital Singer, Head of Voice Studies, Moores School of Music , University of Houston
Denise Coleman, non-profit consultant
John Forconi, Chairman of the Accompanying Department, Manhattan School of Music
Margo Garrett, Collaborative Piano Faculty, The Juilliard School and U of MN
Steven Gross, International opera and musical theater conductor. Former Music Director, Theater des Westens, Berlin
Bert Harclerode, Executive Director, Chamber Music Sedona
Dimitri Hvorostovsky, International Opera and Recital Singer
Mark Kaczmarczyk, Director of Opera & Musical Theater of Ithaca College and Founder, Detroit Oratorio Society
Edwin Lubin, former Counsel at King and Spalding specializing in Intellectual Property Law.
Derek Mithaug, Executive Director Suburban Community Music Center (NJ)and President, Mithaug Artists. Former Director of Career Development and Co-Director of the Mentoring Program,The Juilliard School
Joan Morris, Cabaret artist and faculty member, University of Michigan
Peter Oundjian, Conductor and Artistic Director, The Caramoor Festival
Mark Riggleman, Director of Education, Chicago Lyric Opera
Harvey Seifter, Executive & Artistic Director, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts; Founder & Director, Creativity Connection
Howard Sereda is Senior Vice President of Centerbrook Financial, a financial intermediary serving the affordable housing industry, which has been formed by CharterMac, one of the nation's leading real estate finance companies, and IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank, a member of the French bank Groupe Caisse d'Epargne. Howard has worked in the real estate industry for over 20 years as construction lender, developer, property manager and investor. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University and a Master of Arts degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University. He is an avid concert goer, and lover of classical music.
Paul Sperry, Director of Joy in Singing and Faculty member Manhattan School of Music
Arnold Steinhardt, First Violinist Guarneri String Quartet
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SEMINAR LEADERS
Michael Batshaw, Psychology of Partnership
Michael Batshaw is a board-certified psychotherapist who holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Formerly, Mr. Batshaw served as Clinical Director of a non-profit AIDS organization, serving artists with AIDS in NYC. He currently maintains a full-time private practice in New York City, where he works with both musicians and business leaders Mr. Batshaw is also a professional opera singer and trained with teachers from The Julliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts. In 2003, Mr. Batshaw made his Carnegie Hall debut as the tenor soloist in the Berlioz Requiem. Mr. Batshaw’s solo engagements have included Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Mozart’s “Requiem” and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater”. Mr. Batshaw performs in the New York area and beyond in concerts and recitals, as his schedule permits. Michael Batshaw can be reached at contact@michaelbatshaw.com or directly through his website: michaelbatshaw.com.
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Jennifer Beattie, The Theme Recital: Finding Your Voice In Art Song
Hailed by Opera News Online for her "exuberant voice and personality," soprano Jennifer Beattie is a versatile and dynamic performer in styles ranging from opera to chamber music and musical theater to cabaret. Ms. Beattie is an active recitalist dedicated to the performance of art song, appearing most recently in NYC at The National Arts Club, The Juilliard School, The Donnell Library, and Riverside Church. Ms. Beattie is also an avid performer of new and innovative works, having premiered pieces in both the opera and recital genres. In opera, Ms. Beattie has appeared in Die Fledermaus in Carnegie Hall, as Sacerdotessa in Aida with One World Symphony, and in Peer Gynt with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. She has also been featured in Classical Singer magazine and as a guest of Houston’s National Public Radio.
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Alyssa Dodson, Connecting through Body Awareness/Stage Deportment
As a professional dancer, Alyssa Dodson has performed with many distinguished dance companies. They include the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus, The Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, The Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Ms. Dodson has worked as an assistant choreographer for Pilobolus’s version of the Nutcracker commissioned by the Ballet du Rhin of Mulhouse, France. Ms. Dodson has been on the staff of Tanglewood since 1999 teaching yoga, movement and placement to singers, instrumentalists and conductors. In December of 2002, Ms. Dodson taught the singers of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist program. As a dance teacher, Ms. Dodson has taught the Martha Graham Technique at NYU Dance Education Department, Cap 21, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and participated in numerous master classes worldwide.
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Vickie Karp, Poetic Text Analysis
Vickie Karp’s first book, A Taxi to the Flame, was published in 1999 . She has written literary documentaries for PBS, A & E, and Bravo. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for her poetry and an Emmy nomination for her televised poetry special, New Yorkers Remember September 11th. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Italy’s Storie magazine, David Lehman’s Best Poetry anthology series, and Bascove’s Where Books Fall Open and Sustenance and Desire. The first in her series of “poetry theater” plays – “Driving to the Interior,” on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop -- was recently staged at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Her new “poetry theater” play – “Venus Will Now Say A Few Words,” on W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers -- will premiere in 2007/2008.
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Adam Marks, Speaking with Your Audience
Originally from California, pianist Adam Marks is an active soloist and chamber musician. He began his piano studies at the age of four, but has explored countless areas of interest including theatre, science, and the medical professions. After earning a B.A. from Brandeis University, Adam continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music in the Masters Program. His past teachers include Anthony DeMare, Donn-Alexandre Feder, Evan Hirsch, Sally Pinkas, and Lois Banke. Adam has also performed in master classes with such renowned artists as Ursula Oppens, Bruce Brubaker, Sara Davis Buechner, Marc Ponthus, and Aleck Karis. Currently, Adam is a candidate for the Ph.D. in Piano Performance at New York University with his forthcoming dissertation, Unleashing the Voice: Interdisciplinary Influences and Interpretive Techniques of Literature for the Vocalizing Pianist.
In the fall of 2003, Adam made his Carnegie Hall debut in both Zankel and Weill Halls, performing the music of Aaron Copland under the baton and tutelage of Michael Tilson Thomas. Other recent performances include concertos with the National Repertory Orchestra and the Brandeis/Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, and collaborations with New World Symphony, New World Symphony Percussion Consort, and the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra. Last year, his work with performance artist Connie Beckley culminated in a two-week run of From: A Masque in Seven Inventions at the Here Center for the Arts.
Adam’s multi-faceted involvement with the New Triad for Collaborative Arts includes roles as both teacher and performer. As a faculty member, he teaches audience engagement and coaches upcoming recital programs. As a performer, he appears both as a soloist and as a collaborator with soprano Jennifer Beattie. In addition to his ensemble work, Adam is an active solo recitalist. With engagements in the New York area and beyond, Adam consistently demonstrates his commitment to new works by both emerging and established composers.
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Jocelyn Rasmussen,
Individuality In Performance
Soprano, composer and teacher, Jocelyn Rasmussen is the founder and CEO of MORE THAN SINGING, LLC, a company focused on creating tools and coaching options for singers as well as MORE THAN SPEAKING, LLC, a company committed to sharing resources and skills to facilitate speakers and professionals in all aspects of oral communication. Years of working with therapists and healing practitioners augmented by studying the works of medical intuitives, music therapists and researchers have all contributed to her integrated approach to the voice. A Master of Music with degrees in vocal performance and composition, Ms. Rasmussen began her professional career with performances of popular and jazz repertoire, including her own compositions, and composed and arranged for other ensembles including theater and dance companies. Her performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra won the Canadian Broadcasting award for best variety show of the year. As an operatic soprano she has performed leading roles in regional companies in Canada and the United States and has been a soloist with orchestras performing both oratorio and popular repertoire. JUST LOVE AWAY, an album of her own compositions, features Grammy Award Winning pianist Lee Musiker. Ms. Rasmussen was selected to perform two of her own compositions at the Time for Peace Awards honoring Robin Williams and Jewel, and continues to perform and teach from her base in Manhattan.
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Ellen Rievman, Dramatic Presentation and Stage Presence
Ellen Rievman has a performing career spanning nearly three decades. For twenty-four years, as a member of the Metropolitan Opera ballet, she performed in over 100 productions alongside some of our greatest opera stars. Since leaving the Met in 1995, she has worked with singers to coach the drama, explore the text, and to incorporate these skills with gesture, movement, stagecraft, and physical eloquence.
A partial list of Ellen’s accomplishments include teaching Master Classes for Apprentice Artists of the Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, National Opera Company, National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National and Regional Conventions, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Utah Festival Opera, UNC Greensboro, Lighthouse for the Blind, and New York Singing Teachers’ Association (NYSTA) National Symposium. She also sits on the board of NYSTA. Ellen functioned as a consultant and coach to the Richard Tucker Foundation, assisting participants in the Foundation’s annual competition. As a director, she has staged scenes, directed cabaret acts and recitals, produced and directed opera evenings of such contemporary composers as Seymour Barab, William Mayer and Philip Hagemann. She has also directed concerts for, among others, NYSTA and the Baroque Aria Ensemble at Manhattan School of Music. Ellen coaches privately and also presents ongoing classes and workshops in audition preparation, dramatic presentation, song/aria interpretation and performance. She is an Associate at TAI Resources, The Actors Institute, in New York City.
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Rachel Schwartz, Speaking Freely and Connecting Art, Artists and Audience
As a professional actor, Rachel Schwartz has performed with many notable theater companies, including The Diary of Anne Frank at the Paper Mill Playhouse and The Comedy of Errors and Antony and Cleopatra at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in plays at several downtown spaces, such as the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, chashama, and Manhattan Theatre Source. She received her M.F.A. in acting from Columbia University, where she studied with such teachers as Kristin Linklater, Andrei Serban, and Anne Bogart. While attending Brandies University for her B.A., she studied abroad in London at the Marymount London Drama Program under the instruction of Katherine Pogson, Charmian Hoare, Bill Homewood, and June Kemp. Ms. Schwartz has been a guest lecturer in acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Simmons College, as well as an acting and vocal coach in New York.
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Arlene Shrut, Musical Dynamics of Partnership
(Refer to Founder's Bio)
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Debra Wiley, Music/Drama Fusion and Stageworthy Performance
Debra Wiley is a director, an internationally acclaimed acting teacher and coach, and a singing voice specialist. She has taught and directed performers at institutions that include The Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music, New York University, Marymount Manhattan College, Harlem School of the Arts, Henry Street Settlement, the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, and regularly teaches master classes in Europe. In her private studio in Manhattan, Debra teaches the techniques of singing and acting and specializes in integrating the two. Recent master classes include Chamber Music America, Audience Engagement pilot at Juilliard with New Triad, NYU Steinhardt, Disney Theatrical Productions and Mannes. As a performer, Debra has been featured with professional companies across several disciplines (opera, theater, musical theater, cabaret) and studied with many famous teachers and directors of our time, including Lee Strasberg, Ed Kovens, Herbert Berghof, Wesley Balk and August Everding. She earned her Masters from NYU in both Acting and Opera. She can be contacted by email: singeractorstudio@verizon.net.
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ADDITIONAL CONSULTANTS
Our seminar leaders and additional consultants are available on an hourly basis to support building presentational skills in general and towards specific performance projects. Initial consultations can be arranged for a fee to determine the best combination of New Triad coachings per project.
Meagan Miller, Performance Consultant
Meagan Miller is an active, highly acclaimed soprano who has performed all over the world. In America, she has been applauded such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl. As recognized for her recitals and concerts as she is for her operatic heroines, Meagan studied literature at Washington and Lee University and vocal performance at The Juilliard School. She is committed to contemporary American song literature and has premiered several works written specifically for her by such composers as Tom Cipullo, Libby Larsen and Robert Beaser. She has been an avid outreach artist for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Ravinia Festival, the Wolf Trap Foundation and the Richard Tucker Foundation. Meagan is also a stage director and devoted voice teacher, and maintains a private studio in both New York City and Northern New Jersey. She has given master classes at Washington and Lee University, Bowling Green University, Fine Arts in Rockbridge, and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts; she has lectured about music and singing for the Washington and Lee University Alumni College, the Peabody Conservatory Elder Hostel, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and the Wolf Trap Foundation.
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David Ostwald, Drama Coach for Singer-Pianist Teams
Helps artists become believable in roles and interpret characters in their bodies and voices. Work focuses on revealing natural relationships between thoughts and how they are expressed in the body and understanding the intention of the flow of the musical phrase.
David has directed over 150 productions of opera and plays here and abroad. His text Acting for Singers was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. David has served as Stage Director at BASOTI Festival in California for 14 years, and as member of the faculty of SUNY Purchase for over 10 years. Additionally he has taught acting at The Juilliard School and The Aspen Music Festival.
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Johnathon Pape, Special Projects
The dynamic and eclectic work of Johnathon Pape crosses many borders. He is a director, writer, teacher, coach, and frequent consultant for artistic projects within many disciplines. As a director, his career spans theatre, musical theatre and opera; and he has staged a wide range of productions throughout the United States and abroad. Recent work includes Terrence McNally’s Master Class for HaBimah, the National Theatre of Israel, the Los Angeles production of Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, Janáçek’s The Cunning Little Vixen for Tulsa Opera, and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd for The Skylight in Milwaukee. Mr. Pape has directed the world premiere of Griffelkin by Lukas Foss for New York City Opera, the U.S. premiere of Daniel Catán’s La Hija da Rappaccini in San Diego, and the Los Angeles premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Eastern Standard. His directorial credits also include such diverse productions as The Taming of the Shrew, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Evita, La Bohême, Tartuffe, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Don Giovanni, Trelawney of the “Wells,” Street Scene, and The Most Happy Fella.
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Alan Seale, Special Projects
Alan Seale, an ordained Interfaith Minister, is voice teacher and coach to many leading Broadway and opera singers in New York City, who regularly perform on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Seattle Opera, Mostly Mozart Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth and the Paris Opera. Alan has been long recognized as an exceptional performing artist who takes audiences on extraordinary journeys of the heart and has appeared in cabaret and concert throughout the United States and Europe. He can be heard as singer/songwriter on his solo CD recording, Child of the Moon, on I Virtuosi Records. Alan is the author of Intuitive Living: A Sacred Path and Soul Mission, Life Vision, both published by Red Wheel/Weiser, and has taught at seminars, workshops, conferences and retreats throughout the United States. He has been a member of the teaching faculties of Chatauqua Institution, the New York Open Center, Wainwright House and New York’s Learning Annex, and has appeared as featured guest on National Public Radio and the Wisdom Channel.
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Jeanne Slater, Physical Performance/Movement/Dance/Choreographer
Jeanne holds a B.A in Theatre from the University of California at Irvine and is a graduate of The Circle in the Square Professional Workshop. She has been performing, teaching and choreographing for over 20 years. Choreography credits include productions at The Juilliard School, Aspen Music Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi , The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, Yale School of Drama and Circle in the Square Professional Theatre Workshop. Her choreography has spanned many styles and genres, from dance concerts and competitions to cabarets and opera. She has taught a variety of subjects including dance, movement for singers/actors, audition technique and performance at all levels from elementary and high school to college and private instruction. She has
been on the Vocal Arts Faculty at The Juilliard School for the last eight years, where she has choreographed over twenty operas and where she continues to teach Movement for Singers as well as coach individual singers on performance and audition techniques. Jeanne recently joined the faculty of Circle in the Square, where she teaches Dance for Actors.
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Paul Sperry, Vocal Repertoire Consultant and Music Coach
American lyric tenor Paul Sperry is that rarity in today’s musical world: a singer dedicated to preserving the song recital. Though his experience in opera extends from Monteverdi through Stockhausen, he continues to devote much of his time to the programming and performance of songs from every country and every period of music.
Born in Chicago, Mr. Sperry started piano lessons at age five, graduated from Harvard College and continued his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked extensively with such masters of art-song interpretation as Pierre Bernac, Jennie Tourel and Paul Ulanowsky and studied acting with Stella Adler. This combination of liberal arts education, supreme musicianship and dramatic flair contribute to what The New York Times called “one of today’s leading song recitalists.” Sperry’s extraordinarily wide repertory includes songs, chamber works and oratorios in fifteen languages, and includes more than fifty works that have been written for him by many of today’s leading composers both European and American -among them Beaser, Bolcom, Cipullo, Druckman, Hagen, Hundley, Larsen, Musto, Paulus, Rands, Talma, Henze, Stockhausen, and Maderna.
Among his recordings are five CDs of American songs for Albany Records, Bernard Rands’ “Canti del Sole” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for CRI, and the complete songs of Ives which he recorded with three other singers for Albany Records. Zephyr Records has previously issued three with pianist Ian Hobson, "Les chemins de l'amour," songs of Poulenc, “Great Composers Love Folksongs Too.” and Schubert’s “Winterreise.” Mr. Sperry has edited numerous collections of American songs for G. Schirmer, Peer-Southern, Carl Fischer and Dover Publications and his book "American Encores" has was released by the Oxford University Press in 2002.
Today Mr. Sperry is widely appreciated for his master classes at the University of Illinois, the Eastman School of Music, the Peabody Institute, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Southern California, Harvard and Yale to name a few. Since 1984 he has taught 19th and 20th -century song repertory and performance at the Juilliard School, and he has created there what may be the country's only full-year course in American song. He also teaches courses in song at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. He served on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1978- 2002, founded the Vocal Program at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and served as its director from 1991 to 1997. In 2004 he joined the faculty of the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1987 he became the Director of Joy In Singing, an organization dedicated to helping young singers, American composers and the art song. He lives in New York City with his wife, sculptor Ann Sperry; they have three children.
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Sally Stunkel, Dramatic Presentation Sally Stunkel, Stage Director/Acting coach
Conceptualizing, integrating and staging recital material, finding story and purpose and bringing it to life
Sally Stunkel has directed for Sacramento Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Skylight Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, Kentucky Opera and Four Corners Opera and has over 90 productions to her credit as a director As a former opera singer, she has sung with the Colorado Springs Opera, Skylight Opera and Baltimore Opera. From over 15 years in dance training, she has also choreographed various operas. A graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory (where she received the National Opera Association’s award for best opera for her productions of The Consul and Postcard from Morocco), she has headed the Opera programs at the former St. Louis Conservatory of Music, the University of Tennessee, the University of the Pacific in California and the University of Iowa, where she won 1st place for her Marriage of Figaro from the National Opera Association. She has taught and directed with the Apprentice Programs at the Des Moines Opera, Chattauqua Opera, the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada and the Aspen Music Festival. She is presently a visiting Professor of Opera at Oberlin Conservatory.
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STAFF
Troy Finamore, Art Director
Troy Finamore is an award winning Art Director with over 20 years of experience producing high-profile business-to-business and business-to-consumer projects both on the agency and corporate side. He is skilled in many media, including: print, web, interactive, animation, sound design, illustration, photography and fine art. His work has been published in The AdAge Encyclopedia of Advertising and Lurzer’s Archive Magazine. In 2002, his work won two AdWeek Icon awards and two WebAwards. He currently runs his own design firm, Finamore Design, in Brooklyn, NY.
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Meryl Sher, Marketing Consultant
Miss Sher is a dramatic soprano and sings such roles as Brünnhilde, Turandot, Tosca, Abigaille, Leonora in Il Trovatore and Leonore in Fidelio, Aida, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, among others. She has worked for over 27 years as Executive Assistant to Presidents of many diverse companies including music publishing, corporate companies and investment banks. She was Chairman of Beauty Beyond Size, a non-profit company devoted to empowering women through seminars, workshops and special events. Meryl is a volunteer for New Triad as writer, editor and word processor for all marketing materials, letters, newsletter and website documents.
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Arlene Shrut, Artistic Director and Acting Executive Director
President, is the Founder and Artistic Director of New Triad for Collaborative Arts and serves on the Faculties of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.