Leadership and Administration

Richard Kessler, Executive Dean, CoPA & Dean, Mannes School of Music
Keller Coker, Dean, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music & Associate Dean, CoPA
Gayle Fekete, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, School of Drama
Bill Gustafson, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Mannes School of Music
Stephen Brown-Fried, Vice Dean, Teaching & Learning
Pippin Parker, Dean, School of Drama & Associate Dean, CoPA
Matthew Sullivan, Vice Dean, Finance & Administration
Jeffrey Zeigler, Director, Mannes Prep

 

Ryan Anselmi, General Manager, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
Alexander Chadwell, Program Coordinator, Arts Management & Entrepreneurship
Christine Choi, Senior Office Assistant
Matthew Craig, Audio & Video Supervisor
Geoffrey Devereux, Ensemble Operations Coordinator
Amanda Ekery, Assistant Director, Academic Affairs, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
Lily Fairbanks, Props Master and Studio Manager
Ben Fortunato, Interim Assistant Director, Mannes Prep
Dylan Friedman, Director of Performance Technology, Technical Supervisor
Audrey Harris-Culver, Program Administrator & Technical Services Coordinator
Rachel Housle, House Manager/ Night Manager
Dylan James, Program & Administration Manager, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
Chantel King, Interim Producer, Theater and Opera
Julia Kulaya, Costume Shop Manager
Rachael Lansang, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, Mannes School of Music
Ange Lopilato, Temporary Program & Administration Manager, School of Drama
Kalun Leung, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs
Iris Maenza, Director of Communications
Michael Martin, Technical Services Manager
Fletcher McCune, Master Electrician
Eli Reid, Production Shops Manager
Alec Rigdon, Production Manager
Ashley Salvagin, Manager of Communications 
Michael Seabrook, Assistant Director, Finance & Administration
Louis Tasciotti, Piano Technician
Jess Tsang, Academic Affairs Coordinator
Derek Weagle, Large Ensemble Manager
Zach Weed, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, School of Drama

Olivia Framke, Mannes MM, PDPL, and MA Arts Management & Entrepreneurship
Kesli Lavia, School of Drama BFA & MFA
Caroline Sonett-Assor, Mannes BM

Amanda Hosking, Director of Admission
Sam Byron, Assistant Director of Admission
Christian Berrigan, Admission Counselor
Tina Wu, Admission Counselor

Stephen Jacobsohn, Senior Director of Development

Rohana Elias-Reyes, Director, New School Concerts
Laura Frenzer, Senior Office Assistant

Pavlina Dokovska, Chair, Mannes Piano Department
Emma Griffin, Managing Artistic Director, Mannes Opera
David Hayes, Mannes Orchestra Director
Pablo Helguera, Assistant Professor, MA, Arts Management and Entrepreneurship
Levy Lorenzo, Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies
Glynis Rigsby, Program Director, Drama BFA
Jane Ira Bloom, Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music
Robert Cuckson, Professor of Techniques of Music
Tanya Kalmanovitch, Associate Professor of Music and Arts Entrepreneurship
David Loeb, Associate Professor of Techniques of Music
Frank Nemhauser, Director of Vocal Studies, Mannes
Lynne Rogers, Edward Aldwell Professor in The Techniques of Music
Reginald Workman, Associate Professor of Jazz

Mason Beggs, BFA Drama Junior Year Head
William Burden, Chair, Mannes Voice Department
Chaelon Costello, BFA Drama Freshman Year Head
Pavlina Dokovska, Chair, Mannes Piano Department
Jerzy Gwiazdowski, BFA Drama Senior Year Head
David Hayes, Mannes Orchestra Director
David T. Little, Chair, Mannes Composition Department
Judith Mendenhall, Chair, Mannes Woodwind Department
Frank Nemhauser, Director of Vocal Studies, Mannes
Dan Panner, Chair, Mannes String Department
Dennis Hilton Reid, Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Carmen Rivera, BFA Drama Sophomore Year Head
Nicholas Schwartz, Chair, Mannes Brass Department
Cristina Stanescu, Chair, Mannes Collaborative Piano Department
Jeffrey Zeigler, Director, Mannes Prep

Ben Allison
Emma Griffin
Darius Jones
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Toya Lillard  
Nicki Pombier Berger

Sheila C. Johnson, Chair
Beatrice K. Broadwater, Vice-Chair
Tim Porter, Vice-Chair
Steven H. Bloom
Nicholas Firth
James Freund
Alexander Glantz
Patricia S. Howell
Robert Leibholz
Howard G. Lepow
Bevis Longstreth
Sebastiane Mundheim
Carol Nickell
David W. Niemiec
Jeff Nissim
Hank O'Neal
Elaine Parisier
Andrew C. Quale, Jr.
Linda E. Rappaport
Anthony J. Rudel
Philip D. Scaturro
Mark Schulman
Matthew Steer
Donald A. Wagner

Danielle de Niese*
JoAnn Falletta*
Gordon P. Getty
Murray D. Perahia*
Robert Sherman
Frederica von Stade*
*Mannes alumnus or alumna