MQVC Team

Kristin Wolfe Jensen
Founder/Executive Director
2014 Co-Host
University of Texas at Austin

Nicolasa Kuster
Founder/Executive Director
University of the Pacific

David A. Wells
Director of Operations
California State University, Sacramento

Benjamin Kamins
Co-host, MQVC 2014
Rice University

Nathan Koch
Chair, 2014 Competition Committee
Sam Houston State University

Jenny Mann
2014 Development Liaison
University of Alabama

Maria McCoy
Consultant

Amy Pollard
2014 Competition Committee
University of Georgia

Janet Rarick
Consultant
Rice University

George Sakakeeny
Contributor/2010 Host/2012 Artist Liaison
Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Maya Stone
2014 Competition Committee
University of Missouri

Leyla Zamora
Contributor
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Founding Advisory Board

Marin Alsop
Music Director, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (UK), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Silvia Coricelli
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Spain

Benjamin Coelho
University of Iowa

Monica Ellis
Imani Winds Woodwind Quintet

JoAnn Falletta
Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra

Felicia Foland
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Robert Freeman
University of Texas, Austin

Nancy Goeres
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon University

Sue Heineman
National Symphony Orchestra, USA

Nadina Mackie Jackson
Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists (Canada), University of Toronto

Judith LeClair
New York Philharmonic, Juilliard School

George Sakakeeny
Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Leonard Slatkin
Music Director, The National Symphony Orchestra

Barrick Stees
The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Institute of Music

Leyla Zamora
San Diego Symphony Orchestra