Harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, William Christie is at the core of one of the most exciting musical adventures of the last 30 years: a renewed appreciation of Baroque music in France, notably of the 17th and 18th-century French repertoire. In 1979, he founded the now world-renowned vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Arts Florissants. His discography includes over 100 recordings, many award-winning, and he is much sought after as a guest conductor, notably at the Glyenbourne and Aix-en-Provence festivals, and regularly at the Berlin Philharmonic. An educator as well, he gives Master Classes at the Julliard School of Music and is the founder of Le Jardin des Voix, an academy for young singers. His magnificent gardens have now become the home of a baroque music festival held each August.

William Christie has been honored in France as Commandeur dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur as well as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Letrres. Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he was officially received under the dome of the Institut de France in January 2010.

Her latest book is Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters, a selection of essays and criticism culled from her writings published over 25 years, including her photography columns for The New York Times. Goldberg’s subjects range from pop imagery to war journalism, from photo-booth portraits to manipulated digital imagery, from the “boredom” of voyeurism to the preponderance of tragic photographs in the news, and her work has been called “of such importance that it should become mandatory reading in the fields of communications, media, photography and sociology” (P. Laytin). She also writes on photography for Vanity Fair, Aperture, and other publications, and was Senior Advisor of the Public Broadcasting System special program “American Photography: A Century of Images” and co-author of the accompanying book.

Harvey’s church opera Passion and Resurrection (1981) was the subject of a BBC television film, while his opera Inquest of Love was performed at the famed Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Southampton and Bristol, is a member of Academia Europaea, and in 1993 was awarded the prestigious Britten Award for composition.

He published two books in 1999, on inspiration and spirituality respectively. Harvey was a Harkness Fellow at Princeton, Professor of Music, now Honorary Professor of Music at Sussex University, UK; he was also Professor Emeritus of Music at Stanford University, an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Composer-in-Residence at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He was the winner of the inaugural Giga-Hertz-Award (2007), the world’s largest award for electronic music. In 2008 Harvey’s compositions were premiered at the Berlin Philharmonic and featured at the BBC ’s Proms at Royal Albert Hall, London; the recording of his Body Mandala was selected by The New Yorker’s critic Alex Ross as one of the top 10 CDs of 2008 and won the Gramophone Award for best Contemporary CD of the year.

* Founding member, deceased December 2012

In his efforts to reach out to the general public, Hoffmann has participated in the production of a television course entitled The World of Chemistry, shown widely since 1990, and hosts a monthly café program in New York City, Entertaining Science. As a writer, Hoffmann has carved out a space between science, poetry, and philosophy, through many essays, three books of “popularized” science writing, and five collections of poetry. He is also an accomplished playwright: Oxygen, written with fellow chemist Carl Djerassi, has been produced in many countries and published in seven languages; a new play, Should’ve has had Canadian and Italian productions. Hoffmann’s literary work has been included in numerous anthologies, published in literary magazines, and translated widely.

Ivory has directed six different actors in Oscar-nominated performances – Vanessa Redgrave, Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Hopkins – and has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards and Golden Palm; he has twice won the Venice Film Festival and of the London Critics Circle Film Awards. A BAFTA Fellowship recognized Merchant-Ivory’s combination of the best of visual aesthetics with intelligence and a superb choice and direction of actors. Ivory’s most recent film, with Anthony Hopkins and Charolette Gainsbourg, is City of Your Final Destination.

Journalist Dena Kaye, the daughter of performer Danny Kaye and songwriter Sylvia Fine Kaye, has had a multimedia career as a journalist. She was the travel correspondent for the CBS Morning News, and produced and hosted TRAVELTALK, a radio show in New York. She has written for Town & Country, Vogue, European Travel & Life, Travel & Leisure and Architectural Digest, on topics ranging from national parks in Costa Rica, colored diamonds, women in politics, memoirs of growing up in Beverly Hills, unusual houses in India, Michael Douglas, portraits of Krakow, Stockholm and Lebanon. She contributes to Indagare, an on-line, travel magazine, has taught journalism, and is also a published poet. Her book, The Traveling Woman, was published by The Literary Guild, Doubleday and Bantam Books, and has lectured to women’s group and was a spokesperson for Polaroid and American Express Travelers Cheques.

Her father, Danny Kaye was UNICEF’s first ambassador to the world’s children. She produced and appeared in an on-location documentary about UNICEF projects in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador. She carries on his philanthropic activity today as President of the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, whose grants have included The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, New York; The Danny Kaye Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, with a stove center stage; The Music Garden, in Aspen, Colorado; The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network; education programs for Jazz Aspen Snowmass and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; restoration of the Opera Comique foyer in Paris with World Monuments Fund; a community park in Cairo with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture; the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, and The Arts Arena in Paris.

She sits on the Board of the National Chairman’s Circle of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the Arts Advisory Council of The Arts Arena International, and French Heritage Society.

Founder of the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. British-born, Kelly is a specialist on new trends in the arts, whether in finances, public-private partnerships, international biennales and art fairs, or internationalization of the art market. A former museum curator, Kelly has established a reputation for his commitment to artists whose work is ambitious, challenging, intellectual, and unconventional, and the Sean Kelly Gallery currently represents artists working in photography, video, performance, installation and painting. Since its inception in 1991, the gallery has mounted some 80 solo and 20 group exhibitions, including the work of nearly 100 artists, and coordinated as many exhibitions at prominent museums worldwide, e.g., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunstwerke, Berlin; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Reina Sofia, Madrid; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. From its initial roster of artists including Marina Abramovic´, Joseph Kosuth, Julião Sarmento, it has grown to encompass James Casebere, Antony Gormley, Callum Innes and Frank Thiel, as well as the estates of Seydou Keïta and Robert Mapplethorpe. Sean Kelly Gallery artists have been included in major international exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, Yokohama International Triennial, Carnegie International, and Documenta, and biennials in Istanbul, Moscow, São Paulo, and Sydney; eight gallery artists have been chosen as representatives for the preeminent Venice Biennale.

He is a Trustee of the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Academy of Medicine, and has previously served as Trustee and Chairman of the Hambidge Center, Trustee of the Atlanta Historical Society, and the Center for Puppetry Arts, and a member of the Board of the Atlanta Symphony. Landon represented the Woodruff Arts Center in its negotiations with the city of Atlanta to build a performing arts facility for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and handled the negotiations and contract with the Louvre in Paris to bring 185 treasures, including a 17th century portrait by Raphael, to the High Museum.

An explorer who has climbed the Matterhorn and Mount Yarigitake in Japan and trekked to the base of Everest and in the volcanoes of Ecuador, he is also a collector of Oriental and Near Eastern calligraphy. Landon is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, as well as in The Best Lawyers in America, Georgia Super Lawyers, and Who’s Who Legal 2007.

In 2001 GreyLight Sound and the Whitney Museum of American Art produced the CD Dennis Oppenheim in Conversation with Barbara A. MacAdam. A second CD, Eric Fischl, was produced in 2008. MacAdam’s catalogues and brochures include John Phillips and Lawrence Fane (Kouros Gallery); Madeline Denaro (Fort Lauderdale Museum); “Videomix” and “Pop Thru Out” (Arario Gallery in Seoul, Korea); “Elke Solomon,” “If You Were Here,” “Hot + Cool,” “Staging the Real,” and “Drawing the Line” (Gallery w 52); “Monumental Drawing” (Blue Star Art Center, San Antonio, Texas); and Isidro Blasco (Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai).

She has been on the Selection Committees for such honors as the Skowhegan artist awards and is on the Rhode Island School of Design’s Awards Committee for the Athena Awards for excellence in art and design.

He is a founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of City First Bank of D C, a community development bank, and is Chairman of the Board of City First Enterprises, Inc., the non-profit controlling shareholder of City First Bank. He is a former co-Chair of the International Banking and Finance Committee, Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Review of Banking and Financial Services and the Editorial Advisory Board of Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report. He has served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a member of the Core Consultative Group of the Global Bank Insolvency Initiative of the World Bank.

Muckenfuss is a founder and former chair of the Petra Foundation, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Round House Theater. A frequent speaker at financial services conferences and seminars, he is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School.

Richard Peña is Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, which he headed for 25 years until 2012, and Program Director of the Lincoln Center Film Society. At the Film Society, he organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Gabriel Figueroa, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Chinese, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Arab, Korean, Japanese Soviet and Argentine cinema. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of Columbia University, becoming full time in 1996 and being named Professor of Professional Practice in 2003; he has also been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University.He is also currently the co-host of Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13.

She is also the author of Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant in Museum Training, a Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, recipient of the Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts, co-founder and vice chairman of the board of The French Heritage Society, and named Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government.

She has produced in-house film tributes for New York City Ballet on George Balanchine, Tanaquil Le Clercq, Lincoln Kirstein and Jerome Robbins. She produced a short film for the CityArts series PBS affiliate WNET/Thirteen about costume maker Barbara Matera. In 1987, prior to coming to NYCB, she produced Dancing for Life, the New York dance community’s response to AIDS, directed by Jerome Robbins. Before working in the arts, she was a classroom teacher in the New York City Public School system for six years, heading up an alternative classroom for the Drug Abuse Prevention Program, a concept that led to the creation of charter schools to address children who were served best in smaller classes with more attention to their psychological needs.

A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, since 1981 he has been a contributing editor at Art in Americaand writes often for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London). Storr has written numerous catalogues, articles, and books, including the forthcoming Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois. He is the recepient of a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and honorary doctorates, as well as awards from the American Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a special AICA award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Art Criticism, an ICI Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.

In 2000, the French government named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres, promoting him in 2010 to the rank of Officier.

A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, since 1981 he has been a contributing editor at Art in Americaand writes often for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London). Storr has written numerous catalogues, articles, and books, including the forthcoming Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois. He is the recepient of a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and honorary doctorates, as well as awards from the American Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a special AICA award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Art Criticism, an ICI Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.

In 2000, the French government named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres, promoting him in 2010 to the rank of Officier.