Welcome
Steven Lankenau, Boosey & Hawkes, MPA President
Brittain Ashford, MPA Executive Director
James M. Kendrick, Alter, Kendrick & Baron LLP
Copyright Year In Review
Trained as an oboist at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, Jim Kendrick began his music publishing career in 1977 before studying law. Following graduation from law school in 1983, he has specialized in intellectual property matters with a particular emphasis on the music and audio-visual industries. In addition to practicing law, Mr. Kendrick has also served as a senior executive of several music publishing companies including Boosey & Hawkes, Schott Music/European American Music and Universal Music Publishing Classical.
Mr. Kendrick became a director of ASCAP in 2007 and was named Treasurer in 2008.
Mr. Kendrick is also Secretary and a Director of The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Amphion Foundation, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and The Charles Ives Society. He also is a director of New Music USA and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Alice M. Ditson Fund. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, and counsel to the Music Publishers Association of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a frequent speaker on copyright and music industry business practices both in the US and overseas.
Margaret McGuffin, CEO, Music Publishers Canada
Music Publishers Canada Update
Margaret McGuffin is the CEO of Music Publishers Canada. Margaret’s career has focused on research and policy development related to the creative industries as well as strategic change management. She has worked with a large number of music industry trade organizations and collective management organizations and currently sits on the board of Work In Culture (as Past Chair) and on the Advisory Committee at MusiCounts. Margaret is also always happy to talk to you about copyright or how music publishers are leading the way in making sure Canadian songs are heard around the world. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Western University and an MBA in Arts, Media and Entertainment Management from the Schulich School of Business.
John Phelan, Director General, ICMP
John Phelan is Director General of ICMP – the music publishing industry’s global trade body. ICMP’s membership includes the Majors, more than 1,000 Indies and 64 different national trade associations across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia-Pacific.
Our industry works in direct partnership with songwriters and composers, of all genres, to bring almost 100 million musical works (more than 90% of the world’s music) to all formats – digital, TV, radio, games, print, hard copy, live and more. ICMP optimises the business, legal and regulatory conditions for our sector to flourish worldwide.
Belfast-born, John’s background is steeped in music, having worked for many years as a professional performer. He has studied law, orchestral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, lectured at universities such as Lausanne and The Paris School of Business Management. He currently serves on several industry and public authority Boards. His love of music covers everything from Public Enemy to Puccini, Shostakovich to Stiff Little Fingers, J Dilla to Jon Hopkins.
Deirdre Chadwick, BMI
MPA Award for Composer Advocacy
Before joining BMI in 2010, Deirdre Chadwick was a classical oboist, performing extensively in the U.S. and Canada with such ensembles as the Montreal Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond and Harrisburg Symphonies, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, where she served as principal oboe for seven years. She is also a founding member of Trio Encantar and has performed widely as a chamber musician. A dedicated teacher, Deirdre served on the faculties of Dickinson College and Susquehanna University, as well as maintaining private teaching studios in oboe and recorder. She has also held numerous administrative positions in academic institutions and private industry.
Deirdre holds two performance degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Deirdre also serves as President of the BMI Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to encouraging the creation, performance and study of music through awards, scholarships, internships, grants and commissions.
MPA Award for Composer Advocacy, presented by Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey is a Grammy-winning composer of works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, dance, and opera—commissioned by the greatest orchestras around the world, and winner of several awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. Bright in coloring, ecstatic in inventiveness, lively and profound, Mackey’s music spins the tendrils of his improvisatory riffs into large-scale works of grooving, dramatic coherence.
Today, Mackey lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, and their son Jasper and daughter Dylan, and teaches at Princeton University, where he mentors young composers as director of the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. In fall 2022, Mackey also joins the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. He continues to explore an ever-widening world of timbres befitting a complex, 21st-century culture, while always striving to make music that unites the head and heart, that is visceral, that gets us moving.
Kathy Fernandes, J.W. Pepper
Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy
Kathy Fernandes is Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc., the world’s leader in sheet music retail. With a background as a school band director, studio teacher, and performing flutist, Kathy brings an understanding of musical needs of Pepper’s customers. She continues to be involved in education with students at her church having received the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catechist Award. She also performs in the music ministry and serves on the Pastoral Council. Kathy advocates for a healthy musical culture on a national scale by serving on the board of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education Roundtable, and the Support Music Coalition. Kathy led the Education Committee and served as board member for over a decade with the Music Publishers Association of the United States. Professional associations include participation in the Key Executive Group of the greater Philadelphia area and the Forbes Communication Council. Kathy serves as Secretary of J.W. Pepper’s Board of Directors.
Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox @ New Music USA
Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence
Frank J. Oteri is a composer and music journalist based in New York City whose syncretic compositional style has been described as “distinctive” in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.
His compositions include: Already Yesterday or Still Tomorrow, premiered by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Delta David Gier and subsequently performed with Gier by the Orchestra Metropolitana Bari in Italy; Fair and Balanced, a saxophone quartet in quartertones premiered and recorded by the PRISM Quartet; Imagined Overtures, for rock band in sixth-tones recorded by the Los Angeles Electric 8; Love Games, settings of poems by Elizabethan sonneteer Mary Wroth premiered at SubCulture by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Francisco Núñez; and Versions of the Truth, a 12-song cycle based on the poetry of Stephen Crane for dual-voiced singer and piano commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund and premiered by Phillip Cheah and Trudy Chan (The Cheah Chan Duo). MACHUNAS, the performance oratorio inspired by the life of Fluxus-founder George Maciunas which Oteri created in collaboration with Lucio Pozzi, premiered under the direction of Donatas Katkus during the Christopher Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2005.
In addition to his compositional activities, Oteri is the Composer Advocate at New Music USA and has been the Editor of the web magazine NewMusicBox since its launch online in May 1999. He is also the Vice President of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and serves on the board of directors of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC).