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Our Staff
Gisele Ben-Dor,
Artistic Director, www.giseleben-dor.com
Lynn M. Holley, Managing Director, LmossH@aol.com
Barbara Burger, Marketing and PR Director, burger@thesymphony.org
Wes Berdall, Graphic Design, wes@dwfmags.com
Steve Wayne, Gene Krug, Webmaster, WebDeck, www.webdeck.net
Charles McDermott, Festival consultant
Sherry Stockwell, logo design, Stockwell Studio
Lucy Elkivity, Illustrator, cover art www.lucyelkivity.com
Ashley Miller, production assistant, ashleydemont@hotmail.com
Lynn
M. Holley, Managing Director
Lynn Holley is a national award-winning communications professional for
her feature writing, marketing, public relations, publications and event
management. In 2000, she was the Festival Director for the Silvestre Revueltas
Music Festival in Santa Barbara, celebrating the Mexican composer’s
100th Birthday, under the artistic direction of Gisele Ben-Dor. Ms. Holley
has served as an Executive Director of non-profit foundations in Santa
Barbara and in New York, and has managed successful fund raising campaigns
and events. She has been a public relations executive and consultant for
numerous corporations and academic institutions, including American Express,
Bard College, Empire State College and Rensselaer. She has worked with
many celebrities and politicians including Bob Hope, Christopher Reeve,
Mario Cuomo, and the former director of NASA and the Apollo Moon Landing.
She was curator of the George M. Low Memorial NASA exhibit, which contributed
to her receiving a gold medal award from Washington, DC. She wrote and
produced Broadway Women and their Music, starring Luci Arnez, and three
concerts for Vermont singer Elizabeth von Trapp. Ms Holley was instrumental
in establishing, and was the curator of the Fredda and Harris Meisel Gallery
of Art, in Santa Barbara. She holds a B.S. in Communications from the
State University of New York, Empire State College. She is a member of
Santa Barbara Associates and the National Society for Arts in Healthcare.
Barbara
H. Burger
Marketing & Public Relations Director, Tango & Malambo Festival
Community Relations Director & Education Coordinator
Santa Barbara Symphony
Ms. Burger has been with the Santa Barbara Symphony for 19 years and has
served jointly as the Education & Outreach Coordinator for the last
fifteen years. She most recently became Community Relations Director after
serving as Marketing Director for 17 years. She received her BA degree
from Eastern College, Pennsylvania and her MA from University of Redlands,
California.
She is a member of the American Symphony Orchestra League and acts as
the Performing Arts League representative between the California Arts
Council, California Advocates and Santa Barbara Visual Arts League. In
the past she served on the Board of the Education Committee for the Association
of California Orchestras (ACSO) for three consecutive years.
Ms. Burger also has worked as Community Relations Coordinator at St. Francis
Hospital and freelanced as Marketing Director for the Santa Barbara Grand
Opera. She currently freelances for the State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara.
In 1984, she founded and chaired ARTCOM, an association of performing
arts organizations that has now evolved into the Santa Barbara Performing
Arts League. She currently serves on the following Boards: The Music &
Arts Conservatory of Santa Barbara; President of the Santa Barbara Performing
Arts League; the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation;
and Vice President of the Downtown Organization. She had served on the
Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau & Film Commission for
a three-year term. Other interests include Southwest archeology, astronomy,
watercolor, and piano.
WebDeck.net, website creations
Creating
websites has been our business for almost 4 years now. We survive in this
economy by producing a quality product for a reasonable price in a short
span of time. Our clients range from local restaurants and artists to
the International Cinematographers Guild. Each client is equally important
to us and we believe this is reflected with the websites we create.
Lucy Elkivity, Cover Art Design
www.lucyelkivity.com
Sherry Stockwell, Logo Design, Stockwell Studio
Charles
McDermott
A third-generation native of Santa Barbara, Charles McDermott is a music
writer and educator. He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy
from Santa Clara University and a masters degree in music from the University
of Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California,
Berkeley.
As a writer he has written extensively on Renaissance keyboard music and
the 20th century music teacher Nadia Boulanger . As an educator he has
taught at the College of Marin, the Thacher School in Ojai and the University
of California. He was founding music director of the Ojai Camerata.
Mr. McDermott has an extensive career as a speaker and program annotator
for symphony orchestras and music festivals throughout the United States
including the Oregon Bach Festival, Palm Springs Chamber Music Festival,
Ojai Festival, and the Santa Barbara Symphony. Additionally he serves
as Artistic Administrator of the New West Symphony, where he is Artistic
Director of the annual critically-acclaimed world music festival Musics
Alive!