PRESIDENT & CEO

Suzanne Ryan-Melamed was most recently Editor in Chief of Humanities and Executive Editor of Music at Oxford University Press, where she spent fifteen of her twenty years in academic publishing. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago, DePaul University School of Music, and the New England Conservatory—the first in the history of religion and the latter two in voice and opera performance. Suzanne’s pandemic activity was to complete a Master of Public Affairs in policy analysis at IU’s O’Neill School for Public and Environmental Affairs. A longtime New Yorker, Suzanne relocated to Bloomington in 2019 where she now resides with her spouse, Daniel R. Melamed. She continues to consult and speak on publishing across the US and internationally, and serves on the advisory board for the start-up independent press, Exeat Imprints. Closer to her new home, Suzanne serves on the Bloomington Arts Commission, is a member of the Bloomington Chamber Singers, and is deeply engaged with refugee resettlement efforts in Bloomington.

TREASURER

Paul Borg is professor emeritus at Illinois State University; he earned his doctorate in musicology from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Borg taught various music history courses for Illinois State’s School of Music and was presented with its College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. He also taught at the Jacobs School of Music during summer sessions in the 1990s-2000s.

His musicological research interests include Latin American Music especially the music of colonial Guatemala.

Active as a pianist, Borg performed as faculty and guest-artist at Illinois State, Indiana, Western Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan, Northwestern, Roosevelt and Millikin universities. In 1995, he performed the world premiere of Roque Cordero's “Three Poetic Meditations” for piano.

His many years of leadership in curriculum development, campus governance and administration earned him Illinois State’s University Outstanding Service Award in 2012.

SECRETARY

Thomas Schaller came to Bloomington thanks to his wife, Julia Bentley, who is an Associate Professor of Voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. They met in Vienna singing in a Renaissance vocal ensemble. His music education started as a Vienna Choir Boy, where he appeared in the role of the 2nd Knabe in the Magic Flute at the Vienna Staatsoper. He got his bachelor degree in Music Education and Piano Education at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst before his wife whisked him away to the US. He founded the company Mensuro Engraving, preparing music scores of all genres, including award-winning art song editions, the Essential Elements method books, and numerous John Williams orchestral film scores, all published by Hal Leonard. In January of 2009 he had the honor of engraving John William’s Air and Simple Gifts, which was performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman at the inauguration of President Obama.

Thomas is also passionate about soccer, the beautiful game, and can occasionally be found arguing the perfect play on a dimly lit field. He is the referee assignor for Cutters, the local youth soccer club and as a licensed referee seems to enjoy the abuse slung at him from the sidelines. Why else would he keep doing it?

Dr. Carolann Buff is a scholar, teacher, and musician regarded for both her research on late medieval and early Renaissance motets as well as expertise on historical performance. She is a founding member of the internationally renowned medieval ensemble Liber unUsualis and recorded two critically acclaimed CDs of 14th-century polyphony with the group, Unrequited: Machaut and the French Ars Nova and Flyleaves: Music in English Manuscripts. Buff has toured worldwide with the Boston Camerata and has recorded with the Renaissance choir Cut Circle on CDs featuring works by Josquin, De Orto, and Du Fay. Buff has also performed with the women's ensemble Tapestry and can be heard on their recording Sapphire Night, which received the 2005 ECHO Klassik prize in Germany. Buff is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

​​J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Ranging from borrowing to modernism, from musical meaning to music history pedagogy, and from fifteenth-century masses to Charles Ives, Alban Berg, and Arnold Schoenberg, his research has won awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, ASCAP, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. He is most widely known as the primary author of A History of Western Music and the Norton Anthology of Western Music (W. W. Norton), the leading music history texts in the English language. His writings have appeared in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, German, Spanish, and Braille. He is an Honorary Member and former president of the American Musicological Society.

Born in Santa Clara (Cuba), Oscar Cañizares completed his Bachelor in Trombone Performance & Teaching Degree at the Instituto Superior de Arte in 2005. The same year he joined the Early Music Ensemble Ars Longa, becoming the first sackbut performer in Cuba, taking part in several recordings of Latin American Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, and more than a dozen of concert tours and festivals around Europe and America.

In 2020 he finished Master’s Degree studies in Early Music (Performance) at IU Jacobs School of Music.

His experience as a scholar includes research about the presence of wind instruments in Cuban 18th Century, as well as the revival of the 19th Century’s Cuban trombone virtuoso Raimundo Valenzuela.

Helen Ford directs the cello program of the IU Jacobs String Academy, where she has taught cello and chamber music since 2007. A strong advocate for community arts engagement, Helen has previously served on the boards of the Musical Arts Youth Organization and Reimagining Opera for Kids and as a grant writer for Cardinal Stage’s education programs. She is interested in creating bridges between community programs to increase opportunities in the arts for all ages. Helen lives in Bloomington with her husband, musicology professor and podcast host Phil Ford and their wheaten terrier Charlotte.

Javier F. León is an ethnomusicologist and director of the Latin American Music Center at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His research focuses on African-diasporic musics in Peru and the Latin America and has been published in Latin American Music Review, Black Music Research Journal and Ethnomusicology Forum, Culture, Theory and Critique, and the volumes Music and Cultural Rights and Música popular y sociedad en el Perú contemporáneo. Most recently he co-edited the volume A Latin American Musical Reader: Views from the South which won the Bruno Nettl Prize from the Society from Ethnomusicology.

Tomás Lozano is an instrumentalist, vocalist and composer born in Barcelona, Spain. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads sung in Castilian, Catalan and Galician, stand out as iconic. Lozano also plays contemporary, popular and European folk music from France, Spain, Britain, the Middle East and Sepharad. Beyond that, he performs his original compositions, solo or accompanied. He currently performs with Duo Krupoves-Lozano, 2Thousand, Daily Bread & Butter, Tamango, Salaam, Shakespeare’s Ear and Kativar. Tomás has performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica. For more info about his performances, programs and publications please visit: www.tomaslozano.com

One of today's most respected baroque violinists, Ingrid Matthews is a Visiting Associate Professor of Violin Performance at Indiana University's Historical Performance Institute. She co-founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with Byron Schenkman in 1994 and served as its Music Director until 2013, while performing extensively around the world with many other leading early music ensembles. Since winning First Prize in the Irwin Bodky International Competition in 1989, she has collaborated as a soloist, guest director, chamber musician, and concertmaster with such groups as the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ars Lyrica (Houston), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), Musica Pacifica (San Francisco), and countless others. She has previously taught at the University of Southern California/LA, Oberlin College, the Comish College of the Arts, and many workshops and festivals, including masterclasses in Beijing and Dubai. Ingrid Matthews has won high critical acclaim for her extensive discography; her recording of the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin of J.S. Bach has been named "top recommendation for this music ... on either period or modem instruments" by American Record Guide. She also plays jazz and swing styles, and is active as a visual artist.