The team
Board of Directors of Musica International:
President: Dominique Lecheval (France – Editions A Cœur Joie France)
Vice President: Noël Minet (Belgium – Centre d’Art Vocal et de Musique Ancienne)
Secretary: Mary Ellen Kitchens (Germany – Archiv Frau & Musik)
Treasurer: Montserrat Cadevall (Catalunia – Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC)
Assessors : Manfred Bender (Germany – Deutsches Centrum für Chormusik) ;
Robin Hilger (USA – American Choral Directors Association) ;
Reijo Kekkonen (Finland – Sulasol Editions) ;
Claude-André Mani (Switzerland – Union Suisse des Chorales) ;
Len Ratzlaff (Canada – Choral Canada).
General Manager: Jean Sturm (France – More)
Members of the international coordination office:
The founder of Musica International, and its Executive Director. For Jean, Musica is the perfect crossover between his career as a research scientist – where he made extensive computing use – his passion for choral music and his qualities as a project leader.
Jean fell in love with choral music at a very early age. He took up the baton at 15 and later studied conducting with César Geoffray (choirs) and Jean-François Paillard (orchestral work).
In 1969 he set up the Ensemble Vocal Allegro in Strasbourg, where he remained at the helm until 2006.
For over 40 years he worked as a trainer with A Coeur Joie and the Centre d’Art Polyphonique d’Alsace and took a leading role in international events and seminars.
To honour his achievements, in 2014 Jean was awarded the rank of chevalier de l’Ordre français des Arts et des Lettres.
Pierre-Luc, our music librarian, is a musicologist, singer and choir conductor.
He is responsible for expanding the choral database and verifying content.
He is in direct contact with contributors and publishers, to whom he provides guidance and advice on their work in Musica.
Native of Strasbourg, Marielle previously worked for Musica International between 2000 and 2002 as our music documentalist. She is now our web designer and graphic designer who is in charge of recrafting and updating the pages of our website and providing visuals.
She is also a professionally trained singer and make-up artist, and continues to be involved artistically through computer graphics and other artwork, on which she keeps a blog.
Please contact Marielle if you see anything wrong with our visuals or want to suggest any improvements.
Our punctilious webmaster ensures that musicanet.org and the database software are error-free and constantly evolving so as to guarantee a pleasant and productive user experience.
Please, if you have any technical problems, contact him!
The founder of Musica International, and its Executive Director. For Jean, Musica is the perfect crossover between his career as a research scientist – where he made extensive computing use – his passion for choral music and his qualities as a project leader.
Jean fell in love with choral music at a very early age. He took up the baton at 15 and later studied conducting with César Geoffray (choirs) and Jean-François Paillard (orchestral work).
In 1969 he set up the Ensemble Vocal Allegro in Strasbourg (allegro.musicanet.org), where he remained at the helm until 2006.
For over 40 years he worked as a trainer with A Coeur Joie and the Centre d’Art Polyphonique d’Alsace and took a leading role in international events and seminars.
To honour his achievements, in 2014 Jean was awarded the rank of chevalier de l’Ordre français des Arts et des Lettres.
Pierre-Luc, our music librarian, is a musicologist, singer and choir conductor.
He is responsible for expanding the choral database and verifying content.
He is in direct contact with contributors and publishers, to whom he provides guidance and advice on their work in Musica.
Our communication officer is herself an enthusiastic chorister and has even conducted choirs. Native from Russia, she lives in France since 2015, and is herself a enthusiastic chorister at the Strasbourg Philharmonic Choir and even directed the Council of Europe Choir for 3 years. Anastasia speaks currently russian, french, english, italien and a little german.
Do not hesitate to contact Anastasia if you have any questions or would like to propose some collaboration or advertise a publication or event.
Native of Strasbourg, Marielle previously worked for Musica International between 2000 and 2002 as our music documentalist. She is now our web designer and graphic designer who is in charge of recrafting and updating the pages of our website and providing visuals.
She is also a professionally trained singer and make-up artist, and continues to be involved artistically through computer graphics and other artwork, on which she keeps a blog.
Please contact Marielle if you see anything wrong with our visuals or want to suggest any improvements.
Our punctilious webmaster ensures that musicanet.org and the database software are error-free and constantly evolving so as to guarantee a pleasant and productive user experience.
Please, if you have any technical problems, contact him!
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