Board of Directors
Notice of Board Meeting September 9, 2024: Brightmusic's Board of Directors will hold a special meeting Monday, September 9, 2024 in Oklahoma City. View Notice and Agenda
CANCELLED: Notice of Board Meeting August 19, 2024: Brightmusic's Board of Directors will hold a special meeting Monday, August 19, 2024 in Oklahoma City. View Notice and Agenda
Notice of Board Meeting June 27, 2023: Brightmusic's Board of Directors will hold a special meeting Tuesday, June 27, 2023 in Oklahoma City. View Notice and Agenda
Notice of Board Meeting September 13, 2022: Brightmusic's Board of Directors will hold a special meeting Tuesday, September 13, 2022 in Oklahoma City. View Notice and Agenda
Aaron Ackerman, treasurer
Aaron is a Consulting Executive at HoganTaylor and leads the Oklahoma City Financial Management Services practice. He is a CPA with more than 15 years of experience in both public accounting and private business in Oklahoma City. Over the course of his career, Aaron has performed audits on a wide variety of entities including nonprofit, manufacturing, construction and self-insurance funds. After transitioning to corporate accounting/finance he worked in energy services, television/online media and retail fuel. Aaron has served as Controller or CFO for a 50-year-old family owned business as well as a hedge fund backed start-up company. In addition to overseeing all aspects of the accounting function, Aaron has also been responsible for cash management, debt management, risk and insurance, audit relationships and banking relationships. He has led multi-year music license agreement negotiations, credit facility negotiations and implemented consolidated financial reporting software. More than anything, Aaron enjoys contributing to organizational growth and goal achievement through efficient and effective accounting and financial processes.
Steve Blevins, M.D.
Associate Dean for Medical Education at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine; Bachelor of Science from Yale University; Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine; Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Michael Boyle
Michael Boyle is a Professor of Music and the Music Program Coordinator in the Division of Arts, English, and Humanities of Oklahoma City Community College. He joined the faculty of OCCC in 2006. He holds degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati (performance) and Southern Illinois University (orchestral conducting). He performs regularly in the Oklahoma City area in both the Classical and Jazz idioms. A contemporary music lover, he has premiered works by Sydney Hodkinson, Allen Sapp, Norman Dinnerstein, Frank Proto, Phillip Meade, and Joshua Haas. As a bassist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Dallas, London, Paris, Salzburg, Venice, and Munich. In addition, Michael spent 14 years working as an Executive Chef in fine dining nationwide.
Steve Brown
Steve Brown is the owner of a company that designs and manufactures fuel systems and control systems for industrial engines. He holds two patents and two pending patents but is also a musician and is very passionate about classical music, regularly attending many classical and operatic performances a year. He has served on the Board of Creation Truth Foundation in Noble, Oklahoma, for many years, and previously served on the Board of Youth for Christ in Oklahoma City.
Chad Burrow, co-artistic director
Co-Artistic Director of Brightmusic; Associate Professor of Clarinet, University of Michigan; faculty member of the Alpen Kammermusik Festival (Liesing, Austria); Quartz Mountain Music Festival Orchestra, and the Camerata Pangae; member of Duo Clarion along with his wife, pianist Amy Cheng; Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), where he studied with Russell Dagon; Master of Music degree from Yale University, where he studied with David Shifrin. See complete bio here.
Amy I-Lin Cheng, D.M.A., co-artistic director
Co-Artistic Director of Brightmusic; concert pianist, Lecturer of Piano at the University of Michigan; avid chamber musician and international educator; has performed in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the National Recital Hall of Taiwan; graduate of Curtis Institute of Music (BM); Yale University School of Music (MM and Artist Diploma); and New England Conservatory (DMA). See complete bio here.
David Grizzard, vice-president, design and marketing
Chair, Audience Development and Publicity Committee. David Grizzard is associate Creative Director for Relevant Products, an Oklahoma City-based giftware and product design company. A graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, he began his career as a graphic designer and copy writer for Walker Creative, then worked almost 10 years as art director and product manager for United Design Corporation. In 1999, he joined Jordan Associates as art director. He volunteers for several local arts organizations, including The Girlie Show and Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO), and has been a past vice president of the Oklahoma Graphic Communication Society. David serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
Lisa Harvey-Reed
Lisa Harvey-Reed is the principal oboist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic as well as the longtime principal oboist of the Lawton Philharmonic.
She is the oboist in the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble. She has been Instructor of Oboe at Oklahoma City University's Wanda L. Bass School of Music for over twenty years and maintains a private oboe studio. Statewide, she has performed with the Enid Symphony and Tulsa Symphony. Summer festival performances include the Duncan Music Festival, Sommerfest in her native Minnesota, the New Hampshire Music Festival and the Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy. She has previously taught at the MacPhail Center for the Arts, a satellite school for the University of Minnesota. Ms. Harvey-Reed earned a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance from Indiana University and completed a Master's of Music in Oboe Performance from the University of Oklahoma. Carl Holub, formerly of the Minnesota Orchestra, the late Jerry Sirucek of Indiana University and the late John Mack of the Cleveland Orchestra are her greatest musical influences.
Dean Jackson
Dean Jackson is a retired United States Air Force Colonel. He and his wife Jeanne came to Oklahoma in June of 2005 for a military assignment at Tinker AFB where he commanded the 72nd Mission Support Group until July 2007. This assignment culminated a 35-year Air Force career. After retirement he worked in private industry and as an Adjunct Professor at Rose State College before deciding to fully retire and devote his time to volunteer activities.
Dean and Jeanne are both active in the community. Dean currently serves on the Leadership Advisory Council of New View Oklahoma, and on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Both Dean and Jeanne are actively involved in the arts as supporters of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where Jeanne has served as a docent for 16 years, and supporters of Bright Music for many years. They have been married for 36 years and their son Christopher is currently serving in the Georgia Air National Guard.
David R. Johnson, president emeritus
President, Board of Directors 2010-2019. Retired former partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; former partner in the Houston, Texas and Washington, D.C. offices of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.; attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, Department of the Air Force. In Oklahoma City: a member and past president of the Oklahoma City Pianists' Club, a director of the KCSC Classical Radio Foundation. In Washington, D.C.: a member of the D.C Bar and the bars of various federal courts. Graduate of College High School, Bartlesville Oklahoma; Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; and the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional graduate work in the College of Charleston Department of English, Charleston, South Carolina. Piano student of the late Martha M. Boucher, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Edward Knight, D.M.A.
Edward Knight is Director of Composition and Composer-in-Residence at Oklahoma City University; BME from Eastern Michigan University, MM and DMA from University of Texas at Austin, with postgraduate study at London’s Royal College of Music; studied privately with John Corigliano and was the first American to win the Sir Arthur Bliss Memorial Award for outstanding composer at RCM; music performed by Marquita Lister, Paul Neubauer, and the New York Philharmonic in venues ranging from the Hollywood Bowl to Carnegie Hall; ASCAP’s Nissim Award for Best New Orchestral Work; Best Song Cycle from the American Art Song Competition; fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, Copland House, and Djerassi; published exclusively by Subito Music; recordings are available from Albany Records, ERMMedia, and Capstone Records.
Steven McConnell
Steven McConnell and his wife, Christi, are residents of Oklahoma City and have two sons, Brycen, who currently resides in Corvallis, Oregon, and Jarret, who currently resides in Oklahoma City. Steven earned his B.A. in History and his B.F.A. in Music from the University of Oklahoma, and subsequently earned his Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University. Steven is the SVP/General Counsel for Tinker Federal Credit Union as well as the Minister of Music at The First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City. He is on the board of directors of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, immediate past chair of the Financial Institutions and Commercial Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association, and currently chairs the Oklahoma Governmental Affairs Subcommittee-Cornerstone Credit Union League.
Patrick B. McGuigan
Patrick B. McGuigan is an educator, and an award-winning journalist. He has four decades of experience in news reporting, policy analysis, and commentary. A certified teacher in ten subject areas, he has substituted in public schools and taught full-time at a private school, and in public charter schools. In the early 2000s, he was curriculum director at Justice Alma Wilson Seeworth Academy, an alternative school serving at-risk youths.
McGuigan, who began reporting while in high school, is now the editor of CapitolBeatOK.com, an online news website which he founded in 2009. He is publisher and editor at The City Sentinel, a now-monthly newspaper with a robust “24/7” online presence. In 2010, The City Sentinelwas named Oklahoma's second best community newspaper in the Society of Professional Journalists' competition. Pat has frequently been honored with first place and other awards from Oklahoma’s SPJ, both for his reporting and commentaries, including arts reviews. He is a past treasurer for the organization. Pat is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and of the National Press Club. For 25 years, he performed in the annual political parodies of the Oklahoma City Gridiron Club, raising money for journalism scholarships.
For eight years, Pat was a regular commentator for News9, the CBS News affiliate in Oklahoma City. For a decade, he appeared regularly on the PBS NewsHour. For 12 years, he ran the editorial page at The Oklahoman, the state’s largest newspaper. In government, Pat worked for the late Brenda Reneau as her Deputy Commissioner of Labor.
In Washington, D.C. during the 1980s, McGuigan was director of the Judicial Reform Project at the Free Congress Foundation, where he also was editor of The Initiative and Referendum Report,then the nation's leading source of information on the politics of direct democracy. McGuigan served as chairman of the Library and Archives Committee at the National Press Club. He is the editor of seven books on legal policy and the author of three books, including Ninth Justice: The Fight for Bork, and The Politics of Direct Democracy: Case Studies in Popular Decision Making.
James H. McPhee
Recently retired Senior Staff Analyst, Midstream & Marketing Division - Devon Energy Corp.; BA University of Michigan; member: Gas Processor's Association; National Energy Services Association; Houston Energy Association. Volunteer: United Way of Oklahoma Allocations Committee, Mark Twain Elementary School Tutoring Program; Carpenter Square Theater.
Larry D. Reed
Larry Reed retired in December 2019 after a nearly 40-year career as First Vice President and financial advisor in the Global Wealth Management Group of Merrill Lynch. A native of Norman, Larry received his bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Oklahoma; his master’s degree in music from the University of Indiana in Bloomington; and further post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He has served on the music faculties of Baylor University and Oklahoma City University. Larry is a bassoonist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra and has been the Principal Bassoonist with the Lawton Philharmonic since 2003. He has also performed extensively with other orchestras including the Aspen Festival Orchestra, Waco Symphony, Plattville (Wisconsin) Symphony, Wichita Symphony and the pit orchestra of the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He has served on the boards of the Norman Arts and Humanities Council, the Harrison Academy for the Performing Arts, the Children’s Arts Network, and the Board of Visitors for the University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts.
Frances P. Roach, interim president, institutional fund-raising
Recently retired Assistant Secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board, the state agency responsible for conduct of state and federal elections. Former member of the Board of Directors of Civic Music Association of Oklahoma City. Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oklahoma.
Malcolm Zachariah, vice president, publicity
Malcolm is an artist and scientist. He works in Air Quality Rules and Planning at the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, working on regulation development and public outreach projects. Malcolm also practices as a visual artist and plays various flutes. He earned his BS in biochemistry, magna cum laude, at the University of Oklahoma, followed by graduate research in medicinal chemistry at the University of Utah. Malcolm is a member of the American Chemical Society, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma Art Guild, Fiber Artists of Oklahoma, Paseo Arts Association, and Art Group OKC (leadership team). Malcolm serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
Past Directors:
N. Luke Back
Ann Bonsteel
Ed Beaudette (Past President)
Matthew Dane
Grant J. DeFehr
Joel Dixon
Becky Duckworth
Bill Duckworth
Sara Grossman
Barbara Klepper
Debra Konieczny
Christina Jennings
Eric Laity
Gregory Lee
Margôt Nesbit
Andrew Peterson
Kimberly Powell
H. Scott Raab
Joy Reed Belt, Ph.D.
Jonathan Ruck
Deborah McAuliffe Senner
Jeffery R. Thyer
Stephen Tremaine
Kip Welch
John Williams (Past President)
Judith Willoughby
Webmasters:
Malcolm Zachariah and Stephen Tremaine
