Board of Directors

President: Linda Bouchard, member bio
Treasurer: Jeanne Newman, member bio
Secretary: David Cole, member bio

Members
Lee Plested, member bio
Erik von Muller, member bio

Linda Bouchard
Founder & Artistic Director

Linda Bouchard has composed over 60 works in a variety of genres, from orchestral and chamber works to dance scores, concerti, and vocal pieces. Her works have been heard extensively on both sides of the Atlantic and have been recorded by the CBC and Analekta in Canada, ECM in Germany, and CRI in the US. A full compact disc of orchestral works called Exquisite Fires was released in 1998 on the Canadian label Marquis Classics. She has won awards in Canada and in the US. Linda studied with Henry Brant at Bennington College and then moved to New York City where she lived from 1979 to 1990. While there, she composed, led contemporary music and made orchestral arrangements for the Washington Ballet, the St. Luke's Orchestra and various churches in the Metropolitan area. She was Assistant Conductor for the New York Children's Free Opera with the St. Luke's Orchestra from 1985 to 1988.

In 1990, she returned to Canada and was guest conductor for the "Atelier de Musique Contemporaine" of l'Université de Montréal. In the fall of 1992 she accepted a three-year position as composer in-residence for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. In 1997, Ms. Bouchard received the Prix Opus as "Composer of the Year" by the Conseil Quebecois de la Culture. Ms. Bouchard moved to San Francisco in 1997.

lindabouchard.com
murderouslittleworld.com

Alison Conard
Operations Director

Alison Conard is a musician and new media artist whose work explores the coalescence of sound and story. She brings a broad range of experience to NEXMAP, including PhD studies in music cognition at McGill University in Montréal, work in the corporate music industry, developmental strategy for fine arts professionals, music composition, and the creation of digital/web media. Alison is dedicated to moving the fine arts world into the 21st century, both as an artist and as a facilitator of other artists.

alisonconard.com

Adam Frey
Organizational Development Consultant

With 25 years’ management experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit wings of the music industry, Adam excels at development capacity building, budgeting, and financial control. While Executive Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, he increased annual revenues by more than 250%. Adam studied Music at Harvard and received his MBA from U. C. Berkeley where he focused on marketing and business planning. A certified MBTI ® Master Practitioner, Adam teaches about psychological type in the U.S. and China.

adamfreyconsulting.com

Zachary James Watkins
Inside Out Coordinator

Zachary James Watkins is a California based sound artist who has earned degrees in composition from The Cornish School and Mills College. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish, The Microscores Project, The Beam Foundation, Somnubutone, the sfSoundGroup and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has been performed as part of the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration and the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin, the later of which is released by the London new music label Confront. Zachary has presented works in numerous festivals across the United States, Mexico and Germany including the 2009 Klankunstfest, the 2006 International Computer Music Conference, the 10th Annual Music For People and Thingamajigs Festival and the second Biennial SJ01 Global Festival of Arts on the Edge. In 2007, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the AMC and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An excerpt of this piece is published on a compilation album entitled “The Harmonic Series” along side Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman and Charles Curtis. Zachary received a Subito Grant to assist in the production of the evening length composition: Movable, written for piano in just intonation and a newly invented piano extension called the “Piano Monster” built in collaboration with NYC artist Ranjit Bhatnagar. This work premiered on April 2nd 2010 by pianist Tiffany Lin at the Chapel Performance Space as part of the Wayward Music Series in Seattle, WA. His sound art work entitled Designed Obsolescence, "spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society’s permanence," review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES.

During October of 2006, Zachary was an artist in residence at the Espy Foundation.

zacharyjameswatkins.com


Tam Houetin
Graphic Designer

Tam Houetin is a California based Graphic Designer. She has more than 6 years of experience in both print and web. She has designed a wide range of items from websites, emails, and banners to assorted print collateral. Her clients have spanned the gamut of industries, including the music, fashion, education, interior design, toys, beauty, and non-profit industries. Her style tends towards a clean, uncluttered approach.

tamhouetin.com

Jeanne Newman
Board of Directors
Treasurer

Jeanne Newman has worked in design, publishing and retail, and in 1975 co-founded Calera Wine Company and vineyard in Hollister, California, with Josh Jensen. In 1991 she helped found Other Minds, a new and innovative music organization, with Jim Newman in San Francisco. Jeanne is a Trustee of The Leakey Foundation. Her years of fund-raising and event -planning for schools, and arts organizations, and environmental non-profits, and her love of science and the arts, especially contemporary music, has led her to pursue her interests as a member of the NEXMAP Board of Directors since 2006.

David Cole
Board of Directors
Secretary

David Cole is an educational consultant and senior program director for the Pearson Foundation, the charitable arm of Pearson PLC, the international education and media company. In this role, David works directly with schools, districts and national non-profit partners to deliver programs and services that support literacy, 21st Century skills and academic outcomes for students and related professional and career development opportunities for teachers. He is a founding member of the NEXMAP Board of Directors

Lee Plested
Board of Directors
Member

Lee Plested is a curator and musician based in Vancouver and San Francisco. He received his MA in Curatorial Practice from CCA and has produced exhibitions in museums and galleries across North America including a recent project with Mario Garcia Torres for the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC, Vancouver. As a Bass soloist Plested has performed Bach's St John's Passion (Handel Society), Verdi's Requiem (West Coast Symphony) and several operatic roles including Mozart's Sarastro, Commendatore, and Bartolo, Donizetti's Don Pascuale, and Britten's Superintendent Budd. Recently Plested premiered new works by Jacqueline Leggatt and James Coomber for The Opera Project, Vancouver. Plested is currently organizing an exhibition of Canadian composer R Murray Schafer for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Erik von Muller
Board of Directors
Member

Erik von Muller begun collecting art at the age of 15 and has been actively engaged in the arts since his college days at UCBerkeley where he received his MA in South Indian Languages and Literature in 1971. Passionate about music he has always been deeply interested in recent music especially the work of Berio, Ligiti, Riley, Gubialudina and Claude Vivier. With his husband, Lee Plested, von Muller runs the Vancouver based gallery The Apartment, which has hosted projects by artists including Bruce Connor, John Baldessari, Lee Lozano, and Steven Shearer.