Rob Kapilow, Keynote Speaker
"From Hearing to Listening"
Tuesday, February 22, 8:30 a.m.

      Rob Kapilow is a conductor, composer, pianist and commentator. As a composer, Kapilow has written commissioned works, including the first musical setting of a Dr. Seuss work, “Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham,” in 1995. He has gone on to compose Dr. Seuss's “Gertrude McFuzz”; orchestral versions of both Seuss pieces for the Minnesota Orchestra; a Christmas-Hannukah pair of pieces: Chris Van Allsburg's “Polar Express,” for the Fleet Bank Celebrity Series in Boston, where he runs the Family Musik series, and “Elijah's Angel,” a setting of the celebrated children's book by Michael Rosen; and his first opera, Many Moons, based on the James Thurber story with a libretto by Hilary Blecher, which premiered in January 1997. Recent family pieces include “And Furthermore They Bite” (2000), a companion piece to “Carnival of the Animals,” and “Play Ball!,” a setting of the famous Thayer poem, "Casey at the Bat."
      Kapilow also composes “city” pieces, involving entire communities in the process of conceiving and creating a new piece of music. He was a featured composer on Chicago Public Radio's prestigious "Composers In America" series and is a recipient of an Exxon "Meet-the-Composer" grant and numerous ASCAP awards. 
     Kapilow is also one of America's most persuasive commentators on classical music. His series "What Makes it Great?" is a regular feature on National Public Radio's Performance Today, as well as in live. As a conductor, Kapilow has led orchestras throughout the United States and was music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and Opera New England, as well as assistant conductor of the Opera Company of Boston and the Bridgeport Symphony.
     Born on December 22, 1952, Kapilow is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, and a student of Nadia Boulanger. He was an assistant professor of music for six years at Yale University and has lectured and taught at universities throughout America. 
     Currently he is composing a work commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Co-commissioned by the Carlsen Center, the Saint Louis Symphony, and the Louisiana Philharmonic, and with a text by Darrell Kipp, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, the work is scheduled for premiere by the Kansas City Symphony in September 2004. 

Rob Kabilow's web site is http://www.robkapilow.com.

Valerie Geller
"Creating Powerful Radio"
Announcer Workshop
Monday, February 21, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

     Valerie Geller is president of Geller Media International, working with news, talk, and personality programming for both radio and television. In Europe, she has worked with both commercial and public broadcasting, including El Grupo Radio Centro, Mexico City, Mexico; CFRB, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Charivari, Nuremburg, Germany; Radio Z, Zurich, Switzerland; SSR & SRI, Switzerland; Warsaw, Poland; and Vienna, Austria.
     Geller's background includes all radio formats from adult contemporary, top 40 CHR, to country and news/talk. She ran the news department at KIOI in San Francisco and helped launch the talk format at KFI in Los Angeles. In 1990 she programed WABC in New York. 
     She began her career as a radio journalist, a field in which she has won several awards. She was elected to the board of directors of the Associated Press Broadcasters and held a board seat for the Radio Television News Directors Association in California. Geller has also written about radio for Billboard Magazine, Radio and Records, The M Street Journal, and Music and Media.
     Geller is the author of two books, Creating Powerful Radio: A Communicator's Handbook for News, Talk, Information & Personality, and Powerful Radio Workbook: Prep, Performance, Post Production Planning. 

Geller Media Internatioal's web site is http://www.gellermedia.com/index.html.

Kenneth Tomlinson, CPB Board Chair
"Public Radio In a Changing Media Landscape"
Tuesday, February 22, 1:45 p.m.

A native of Grayson County, Virginia, Kenneth Tomlinson began his career in journalism working as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1965. In 1968 he joined the Washington bureau of Reader's Digest. He was a correspondent in Vietnam, and co-authored the book P.O.W., a history of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. In 1977 and 1978 he worked out of the Digest's Paris bureau covering events in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Tomlinson was director of the Voice of America from 1982 to 1984. In 1985 he was named chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. The following year he was appointed to the U.S. Board for International Broadcasting where he served until 1994. Following his work at VOA, Tomlinson returned to Reader's Digest as managing editor in 1984. He was named executive editor in 1985 and became editor-in-chief in 1989. He was the Virginia Press Association's Virginian Of the Year in 1994 and is a member of the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame.

Kenneth Tomlinson was elected chairman of the CPB board in September 2003.

Max Horowitz
"Raising Funds Year 'Round"
Tuesday, February 22, 1:45 p.m.

Max Horowitz is the President of Crossover Media Inc., a full-service radio promotion, marketing, and artist development company serving the radio and recording industry. Crossover Media’s client list includes Sony Classical, BMG Classics, EMI Classics, Artemis Classics, Vanguard, Angel, Blue Note, BMG Heritage, RCA Victor, Dreamworks, Columbia, Legacy, KOCH, and others. 

In addition to his work with Crossover Media, Mr. Horowitz has worked as a program consultant for Music Choice and Sirius Radio. A Peabody Award winning radio producer, his credits include ABC Radio and Classical 104.3 WNCN, as well as numerous independent writer/producer credits for Yo-Yo Ma (“La Belle Epoque”), Vladimir Horowitz (“In the Hands of the Master, Masterworks of the Immortals”), Murray Perahia (“The Goldberg Variations”), Marcus Roberts (“Live from the Villiage Vanguard, An Hour with Chick Corea, New York City MusicBox”), George Winston/Ray Manzarek (“Night Divides the Day”), and The George Winston 2001 Winter Concert 2001. Additional radio awards include two New York State Broadcaster Awards and the International Radio Festival of New York Award.

Mr. Horowitz is also a contributing writer for the college textbook Understanding the Music Business (Simon & Schuster). He has a B.A. from the Aaron Copland School of Music in New York and worked for ten years as a professional musician before entering the radio business.

Information is available at www.crossovermedia.net

Frank J. Oteri
"Creative Programming In a Computer World"
Thursday, February 24, 8:30 a.m.

Frank J. Oteri, a composer and music journalist, joined the staff of the American Music Center in November 1998 to serve as the editor of its Web magazine NewMusicBox, which he has done since its launch in May 1999. He is an outspoken crusader for new music who has given presentations about breaking down musical barriers at conferences and panels for the American Symphony Orchestra League, Chamber Music America, the Music Critics Association of North America, and the Jazz Journalists Association, and has appeared on television and radio talk shows around the country to discuss the importance of contemporary music. Oteri has written booklet notes for CDs on the Albany, Argo/Decca, BMG Classics, CRI, and Naxos American Classics labels, as well as features for BBC Music, Chamber Music, Ear Magazine, Stagebill/Playbill, Symphony, Time Out New York and the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His comments about music have been quoted in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, the Guardian (U.K.), and Jazz Times. 

Oteri holds a B.A. and a M.A. (in Ethnomusicology) from Columbia University where he was Classical Music Director and World Music Director for WKCR-FM. He is also a composer who has been recently described in the Palm Beach Post as "the real talent…waiting to be discovered." His musical compositions, ranging from operas and chamber works to solo keyboard music performed by Sarah Cahill and Guy Livingston and original bluegrass/old-timey songs for his band, The String Messengers, and have been performed in venues ranging from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art and the Theatre Royal in Bath, England to Galapagos, the Sidewalk Café, and the Bethlehem Musikfest (PA).

See NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/index.nmbx.

Hans Quant
"Global Programming--Sharing Content and Creativity"
Wednesday, February 23, 10:30 a.m.

Hans Quant spent 14 years in charge of Radio Netherlands' music activities. He designed and produced series of programmes and of CDs, he expanded the markets for music from the Netherlands on the radio, and he travelled the world as an "ambassador for Dutch music". He is now at Radio Netherlands as Music Policy Advisor. 

Web Site: http://www.rnw.nl/cgi-bin/home/enhome.pl.

Libby Larsen
"The Concert Hall That Fell Asleep and Woke Up As a Car Radio"
Thursday, February 24, 1:30 p.m.

As one of the most active and successful composers working today, Libby Larsen has produced a substantial body of important works for orchestra, dance, opera, choral, chamber and solo performance. Recognized for "her subtle and sophisticated harmony, revealing an extraordinary capacity for combining seemingly dissimilar elements with great ease," her works are widely performed and recorded. Her "Sonnets From the Portuguese" is featured on the 1994 Grammy Award-winning CD, The Art of Arleen Auger. Larsen's opera, Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, includes being selected as one of the 8 best classical music events of 1990 by USA Today. 

Libby Larsen is also an articulate and influential advocate for the arts. In 1973 she co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum. She is an advisor to many musical organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, and the American Symphony Orchestra League. She has served as composer-in-residence with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Charlotte Symphony and is the newly appointed Composer-in Residence with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

Libby Larsen's web site is: http://www.libbylarsen.com.

Skip Pizzi
"Ubiquity Super Panel follow-up; Better living 
(and programming) through technology"
Wednesday, February 23, 1:45 p.m.

Skip Pizzi is Manager of Technical Policy for Microsoft’s Windows Client Division, where he is primarily responsible for corporate liaison to U.S. regulatory bodies and media industry trade organizations. He also represents the company in digital radio standards organizations worldwide. 

In addition to his work at Microsoft, Skip serves as Contributing Editor at Radio World magazine, where he authors “The Big Picture” column. He also acts as a consultant to the public broadcasting and academic community on new media technology. 

Prior to joining Microsoft in 1997, Skip served as Technical Editor of Broadcast Engineering magazine and Editor-in-chief of BE Radio magazine. He has written for numerous other broadcast, media-production and computer industry trade publications since the early 1980s, and his book, Digital Radio Basics–the first on the subject of digital radio broadcasting–was published in 1992. He has also served as contributing author or editorial consultant for several other technical text and reference books. Previously, Skip spent 13 years in technical production and management at NPR, and has served on the Distribution/Interconnection Committee of NPR Board of Directors.

Skip is a frequent speaker at broadcasting conferences around the world, and is a judge for the Engineering Achievement Awards of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (“Technical Emmys”). He studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts at Georgetown University (BA, 1975), and is the recipient of the Audio Engineering Society’s Board of Governors Award and the Public Radio Regional Organizations’ PRRO Award.

Ben Roe
"Surround Sound: The Day AFTER Tomorrow Radio"
Tuesday, February 22, 3:45 p.m.
"Global Programming--Sharing Content and Creativity"
Wednesday, February 23, 10:45 a.m.
"Ubiquity Super Panel follow-up; Better living 
(and programming) through technology"
Wednesday, February 23, 1:45 p.m.

As Director of Music at NPR, Benjamin Roe is responsible for the conceptualization, development, and management of music programming for NPR, a line-up that includes Performance Today, SymphonyCast, NPR World of Opera, Sunday Baroque, JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jazz Profiles, and The Thistle & Shamrock.

Since assuming his new post in May of 2002, Mr Roe led the expansion of NPR World of Opera to year-round service and brought on Lisa Simeone as the program's new host. He also directed a complete production and programming overhaul of NPR's award-winning daily classical-music magazine Performance Today, and forged important new distribution and marketing partnerships with the Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN) and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Mr. Roe came to NPR in 1987 as an assistant producer for NPR's Performance Today and rose to his current position in 2002. His prior broadcast experience includes stints as a music announcer and news reporter for WQCR-FM in Burlington, Vt.; WMDK-FM in Peterborough, NH; and WUMB-FM in Boston.

In 1983 he joined NPR member station WBUR-FM in Boston as assistant general manager, became executive producer for programming in 1986 and helped launch Car Talk, which was a local program at that time, on NPR. Mr. Roe holds an A.B. in music from Middlebury College in Vermont, where he graduated cum laude, and has pursued graduate studies in broadcast administration at Boston University's College of Communication.

His complete bio is available at http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/broe.html

Kitsa Lee
"Successful Programming: Going Beyond the Numbers"
Wednesday, February 23, 3:45 p.m.

Kitsa Lee joined NPR in February 2001. Her group is responsible for evaluating program performance; analyzing program and station trends; and providing analyses, reports and guidance to NPR, its member stations, and others throughout the public radio industry. Before arriving at NPR she spent 23 years at Arbitron, Inc., and held a variety of positions throughout that organization, allowing her the unique opportunity to learn about all facets of Arbitron's methodology and to develop an in-depth understanding of the use and interpretation of audience estimates. She holds a B. S. in Business Management from University of Maryland, University College.