Leslie Vial Owsley, Chair
Former Assistant General Counsel for Verizon, handling federal regulatory matters; Student at The New School for Music Study (ages 7-18); Past President, Community Concerts at Second, Inc..

Marvin R. Blickenstaff
Past President, Director of Program for Excellence in Piano Study (PEPS), The New School for Music Study; clinician, author and editor.

Sam Holland
Dean, Meadows School of the Arts, and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; educator, clinician, co-author of over 75 critically recognized publications including The Music Tree.

Nina Melker, Treasurer
Senior Vice President-Community Relationship Manager, Hopewell Valley Community Bank, Pennington, NJ; Chair of East Windsor Chapter, Mercer County Chamber of Commerce; President, Hamilton Township - Education Foundation.

Donna K. Alexander
President and CEO of Advoxum Global Strategies, a global financial services advisory firm; member, Bretton Woods Committee; past member, United States Export-Import Bank advisory council; Member of the Bar, District of Columbia and US Supreme Court; Board member, various not-for-profit and educational boards; concert artist; author.

Andrew Hisey
Teacher, adjudicator, lecturer and performer; one of the founding directors of the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum; member of Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners.

Mitchell Kleiman
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, ADP; parent of New School for Music Study students.

Beverly Lapp
Professor of Music and Department Chair, Goshen College, Goshen, IN; Formerly on the preparatory piano faculty at Harper College and North Central College in suburban Chicago. Coordinator of the annual Goshen College Piano Workshop and Academy.

Craig Sale
Teacher, adjudicator, workshop clinician and performer. Associate Editor for Clavier Companion; co-author of The Music Tree 3: Activities and The Music Tree 4: Activities (Alfred Publishing); Educational Consultant for the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students; former Director and Instructor, Preparatory and Community Piano Program, Concordia University Chicago; Visiting Professor, Piano Pedagogy, Concordia University Chicago.

Mary Kelly
Vice President, R.J.K. Foundation. Member, Advisory Board, The Norman Rockwell Museum; Member, Director’s Circle of The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Ms. Kelly works in Defense Consulting for the U.S. government.