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Meet the Staff of Caramoor Search for: Opener Toggle navigation menu Home AboutExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org History The Rosen House Who We AreExpandOriginativeTeamWorkbenchof Trustees Advisory Council Employment Cultural Partners EventsExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org Calendar Annual Benefit Events Teas & Tours Sonic InnovationsExpand Past Exhibitions VisitExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org Box OfficeExpand My Account Group Services Policies Getting to Caramoor Venues Food + Drink Accessibility Explore the AreaExpand Accommodations EducationExpand MentoringExpand Mentoring Alumni School ProgramsExpand Student Strings Chinese Arts & Culture The Renaissance and The Middle Ages at Caramoor What’s in a House SupportExpand Caramoor Work P.O. Box 816 Katonah, NY 10536 USA Work 914.232.1252 Donate Now › MembershipExpand Corporate Support Volunteer Ways to Give Inspire   Log in Donate News & Blog Weddings & RentalsExpandWeddings Rentals Caramoor HomeAboutWho We Are History The Rosen House Who We AreOriginativeTeamWorkbenchof Trustees Advisory Council Employment Cultural Partners Who We Are  Jeffrey P. Haydon Chief Executive Officer Drawing on twenty years of arts management wits and a lifelong love of music as both an voracious regulars member and musician, Jeffrey P. Haydon serves as CEO of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Since his arrival, Caramoor has launched several new originative initiatives, including In the Garden of Sonic Delights, an immersion Fall Festival, Artist-in-Residence, polity collaborations including the launches of Cultural Katonah and Caramoor@KMA, and expanded its overall programming by over 60%–all while increasing ticket sales, fundraising, and improving its financial performance. Previously, Mr. Haydon served as Executive Director of the Ojai Music Festival (an hour north of Los Angeles), where he led the festival through a number of major transformations to remoter position it as one of the preeminent musical destinations for artists and audiences alike. During a time when many cultural organizations experienced declines in donations and audiences, Mr. Haydon helped the Ojai Music Festival double its upkeep and triple the number of originative and education programs produced – all while improving its wastefulness sheet. A key focus of Mr. Haydon’s work was rallying the surrounding polity and Festival constituents to raise over $4 million from 2008 to 2011 to rebuild the 1,000-seat Libbey Bowl, which serves as the home for the Ojai Music Festival and many other events throughout the year. Mr. Haydon previously held positions with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Aspen Music Festival. As part of the League of American Orchestras’ Orchestra Management Fellowship Program, Mr. Haydon worked with the Baltimore Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Seattle Symphony. He has moreover managed the Cultural Events performing arts series in Tacoma, Washington. A native of California, Jeffrey Haydon earned a Bachelor of Arts inMerchantryAdministration through theMerchantryleadership honors program and a minor in music from the University of Puget Sound. He moreover completed the StanfordMerchantrySchool’s competitive Executive Non-Profit Leaders in the Arts program in undertone with National Arts Strategies. Kathy Schuman Vice President,OriginativeProgramming & Executive Producer Kathy Schuman joined Caramoor in the newly-created role of Vice President,OriginativeProgramming & Executive Producer in November 2016. Previously she wasOriginativeAdministrator of Carnegie Hall, where she helped program its three venues in a wide variety of musical genres. During her 15-year tenure at Carnegie, she was tightly involved in the opening of Zankel Hall in 2003, which led to an expansion of the hall’s presentations to include significantly increasingly new music, early music, jazz, world, and folk. As the primary coordinator of Carnegie’s robust commissioning program, she oversaw approximately 200 commissions, including new works by David Lang, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Brad Mehldau, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, and many others. Directly prior to joining Caramoor, she was Vice President andOriginativeDirector of G. Schirmer/AMP, managing a roster of Pulitzer, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning composers. Kathy began her career in arts management at Frank Salomon Associates, where she worked both as an versifier manager and as Coordinator of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. She moved to Europe in 1994, where she was the Managing Director of the European Chamber MusicUndertone(Bremen), Administrator of the Contemporary Music Network at the Arts Council of England, and then Associate Director of IntermusicaVersifierManagement (London), where she managed artists and programmed the International Chamber Music Season at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in wing to other concert presentations throughout London. A native New Yorker, Kathy has been a lifelong choral singer, with a love of music instilled at an early age from her father, a professional oboist, and her mother, a typesetting designer and opera-lover. She’s moreover a gourmet home cook, voracious world traveler, weekend cyclist, cinephile, and theater enthusiast. Nina Curley Vice President & Chief Development Officer Nina Curley joined Caramoor in July of 2012, thesping the role of Vice President and Chief Development Officer.  Her previous position was as Director of Development at Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA.  In wing to her fundraising experience, Nina has worked in the financial industry and has moreover been a teacher and small merchantry owner. Her volunteer work includes serving as a trustee of Soundview Preparatory School and serving as a mentor for other non-profit fundraising professionals. Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Nina received her B.A. from Davidson College and an MBA from the Whittemore School ofMerchantryat the University of New Hampshire.  She lives in South Salem, NY with her husband and three sons. Tammy Belanger Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Tammy Belanger is currently the Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, a premiere cultural institution that enriches the lives of its audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentors young professional musicians, and engages young children through interactive, educational experiences that deepen their relationship to and understanding of music. Ms. Belanger began working at Caramoor as an intern to the Managing Director in 1995, while earning a Bachelor of Arts in Music Management from Manhattanville College. Over the next nine years she learned the operation from the ground up while obtaining a Masters stratum inMerchantryAdministration with a concentration in written from the University of Phoenix. Shortly without completing her studies, she was promoted to the throne of the finance department. As CFO for the past nine years, she successfully upgraded Caramoor’s financial systems from a small, rudimentary nonprofit to one that matches the excellence of the internationally well-known performances Caramoor presents on stage. Through Belanger’s planning and management, Caramoor has regularly come in under its expense budget, which has raised the conviction of the unshortened staff and workbench of trustees. Working in a nonprofit requires a tremendous value of personnel skills to train others in finances, help them manage extremely limited resources and navigate an exponentially growing number of ramified regulations imposed on nonprofit organizations. Belanger has workaday all of that. Originally from Maine, Ms. Belanger and her two children, Justin and Jessica, reside in Carmel, NY. Tahra Millan Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Tahra Millan joined Caramoor in December 2013 as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to Caramoor, Tahra worked as Director of Marketing for Westport Country Playhouse, a 500+ seat subscription-based house located in Westport, CT. Her previous positions include serving as Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing for the corporate offices of Blue Man Group where she ripened Blue Man Group’s digital marketing and communications arm supporting Blue Man’s theatrical productions wideness the globe. Tahra moreover served as Director of Development and Marketing at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She oversaw a $3 million fundraising upkeep and managed strategic communications and marketing efforts. Tahra began her career working for the Broadway industry. At the Broadway League, the national trade undertone for the commercial theatre industry, she spearheaded the industry’s first economic recovery wayfarers stemming from the events of September 11, 2001 and established the industry’s first multilingual website. Tahra moreover worked for an Omnicom-owned entertainment razzmatazz agency, Serino Coyne, where she unfurled her work in developing industry-wide projects and sales promotions. Since 2009, Tahra has served as an offshoot professor teaching Arts & Entertainment Marketing at ColumbiaMerchantrySchool. She earned her B.F.A. in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and an M.A. from the Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. While at Teachers College, she served as the Enid Morse Fellow focusing on education marketing and evaluation at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Tahra is a classically trained two-face and Opera singer residing in Carmel, New York with her husband and two children. Executive Office Jeffrey P. Haydon, Chief Executive Officer Liat Tretin, Executive Assistant &WorkbenchLiaisonOriginativeProgramming Kathy Schuman, Vice President,OriginativeProgramming & Executive Producer Ellie Gisler, Manager ofOriginativePlanning Timothy Coffey,OriginativeCoordinatorOriginativePartners Maggi Landau, American Roots Music Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orchestra-in-Residence Stephan Moore, Sonic Innovations Steven Blier, Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars Pamela Frank, Evnin Rising Stars Katie Kresek, Family Programs Development Nina Curley, Vice President & Chief Development Officer Chrystal Gulbin, Development Analyst Christina Horzepa, Grants Manager Junetta Maxfield, Director of Development Operations Jennifer Pace, Director of Individual Gifts Gayle Schmidt, Director of Special Events Karla Stewart, Concierge Program Manager Finance Tammy Belanger, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Tina Salierno, Bookkeeper Ethan Wilson, Assistant Bookkeeper Marketing Tahra Millan, Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Morgan Boecher, Director of Marketing & Communications Emily Buffum, Digital Media Coordinator Alex Cutrone, Audience Services Manager Olivia Ottinger, Box Office Coordinator Lindsey Partelow, Box Office Manager Roslyn Wertheimer, Marketing Coordinator Roanne Wilcox, Publications Editor Rosen House Merceds Santos-Miller, Director of the Rosen House Gina Cassetta-Westenberg, Rosen House Assistant Tess Dennis, Rosen House Assistant Miriam Messing-Curtin, Rosen House Assistant Education Scott Ellison, Education Program Coordinator Gardens & Grounds Dan Rader, Facility Manager Milton Alvarez, Assistant Facility Manager Germania Alvarez, Building Assistant Rosa Alvarez, Building Assistant Lucio Alvarez, Grounds Assistant Jose Cardenas, Grounds Assistant Agencies/Consultants 21C Media Group, Max Lefer, Public Relations AAN Studio, Graphic Designer Blenderbox, Website Management Capacity Interactive, Digital MarketingOrganOnStage Publications, ProgramTypesettingPublisher Gabe Palacio, Principal Photographer Barbara Prisament, Media Relations, Group Services & Outreach Consultant Progressive Computing, IT Consultant Spektrix, Ticketing Service & Support Technical Direction & Production Management Go Production Services, Inc. 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