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Meet the Classical Team
Ralph N. Jackson
Ralph N. Jackson
AVP, Classical Music Relations
Ralph N. Jackson was trained as an oboist and composer and for more than 30 years has worked with classical composers and publishers at BMI. He currently heads the classical music area and oversees both the relations and administrative areas. From 1977 through 1979, Jackson performed as a professional oboist with the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, and then worked briefly for G. Schirmer/Associated Music Publishers before joining the BMI classical staff in 1980. Early in his composing career, he was the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes, including the BMI Student Composer Award (1977 and 1978), the Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP (1979) and dozens of others. While no longer an active composer, he feels that the experience of creating music has been invaluable in his work to support other composers and the field of classical music in general. In 2007, he was cited for his “significant contribution to contemporary American Music,” by the American Music Center and presented with their prestigious Letter of Distinction. In addition to his work at BMI, Jackson has served for over a decade as the elected President of the BMI Foundation, Inc., a separate not-for-profit that supports the creation, performance and study of music,” and as a board member of MATA (Music at the Anthology) and the Charles Ives Society.
Scott Bartucca
Scott Bartucca
Assistant to AVP Classical Music
Originally from Northern Virginia, Scott Bartucca has been in NYC for the last eight years and is a classically trained oboist. He earned performance degrees from Florida State University (BM) and the Juilliard School (MM), and is currently in his last year of doctoral studies at Stony Brook University. As an oboist, Scott has freelanced and performed throughout NYC and beyond for several years, with highlights that include a recording project with the ever-innovative Björk, performing and traveling with the first national tour of Little Women the Broadway Musical, and a solo recital at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center. He has performed with such ensembles as the symphony orchestras of Tallahassee, Key West and Pensacola, served a year as an associate member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and while still at FSU had the pleasure of playing English horn on a recording of concertos by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. When not involved with music, Scott is an avid cook and marathon runner, having completed 11 marathons to date. This is Scott’s first year with the BMI classical team.
Deirdre Chadwick
Deirdre Chadwick
Director, Classical Music Administration
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. She holds two performance degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.
Emily Good
Emily Good
Director, Classical Music Administration
Emily Good is a musicologist who joined BMI’s classical department in 1989. Before coming to BMI, she was a member of the staff of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, where she served as the head research assistant from 1984 until the dictionary’s publication in 1986. She has participated in a number of contemporary music projects as a writer, researcher and editor. In addition, she has held positions at the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College (1986-88) and in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (1988-89), where she also curated exhibits celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the American Composers Alliance in 1988 and Otto Luening’s ninetieth birthday in 1990. From 1999 to 2002, she served on the Board of Trustees of the Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society) and has contributed to publications including Notes (journal of the Music Library Association), the Journal of the Society for American Music (formerly American Music), The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, the I.S.A.M. Newsletter (now the American Music Review), ComposerUSA, Flute Talk, and the series Dossiers de Presse (ed. François Lesure), published by Editions Minkoff. She received her musical training at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Ohio State University, and, early in her career, was a flutist in several orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Chris McCormick
Chris McCormick
Coordinator, Classical Performance Logging
Chris McCormick joined BMI in February 2010 as Coordinator of Classical Performance Logging. He acquires performance data from classical radio stations and orchestra broadcast syndicators, as well as live concert performance sources, and maintains the databases of identified BMI repertory. He also helps composers with the processing of their classical work registrations. Prior to BMI, Chris completed two internships with Carl Fischer Music Publishing and Gretna Music, where he focused on music licensing and copyrights, artist relations, concert promotion and box-office management. Hailing from the suburbs of Philadelphia, he holds a BA in Music Business and has been an avid and passionate drummer for 14 years. His self-described style of drumming is “funky prog-rock with a Latin twist.”
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