What Music Is: About Us
Our Team
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Bill Barclay
Musician & Director, Concert Theatre Works
Director of Music, Shakespeare’s Globe. Co-author, What Music Is. Author and director of 100+ concerts worldwide — from the LA Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl to the BBC Symphony at the Barbican.
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Sara Stackhouse
Chief Strategy Officer
Executive ProducerPrincipal architect of Summit strategy – funding and sponsors, partnerships, media, visibility, artists, and field impact. Decades of experience producing complex events and productions, non-profit leadership, donor cultivation and strategic institutional collaboration.
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Devon Berkshire
Summit Director
Leads day-to-day production and logistics across all three days of Summit programming: venues, vendors, speakers, artists, registration and expo experience.
Summit Steering Committee
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Adrian Bawtree
Conductor, Retired Director of Music and Organist, Rochester Cathedral, UK
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Dr. Rhoda Bernard
Founding Managing Director, Institute for Accessible Arts Education Assistant Chair, Music Education Department, Berklee College of Music TEDx speaker, scholar, author, presenter, program leader, trainer in Accessible Music Education
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Dr. Matteo Cantiello
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Visiting Associate Researcher, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Princeton University Astrophysicist and Co-Author, What Music Is -
Will Koffel
North America Director, NVIDIA Inception program
20+ years as founder, venture-backed CTO and technical leader Concert Theatre Works Board Chair -
Dr. Joanne Loewy
Founding director, Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Author, editor, researcher and speaker
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James Murphy
CEO and co-founder of Drink LMNT
Builds businesses aligned to health and human biology -
Dr. Indre Viskontas
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco
President, Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity Chief Science Officer, Reverberation Neuroscientist, musician and science communicator -
Dr. Lukas Volz
Head of the Network Plasticity Lab at the University of Cologne Neurologist and Co-Author, What Music Is
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Dr. Lisa Wong
Associate Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School Pediatrician, musician, arts advocate and author
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Dr. Robert Zatorre
Author, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Editor in Chief, The State of Music Science
What Music Is is an initiative of Concert Theatre Works.
Website visual design by Shawn Feeney
What Music Is show photography by Jill Harper
