STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION
MasterVoices
1441 Broadway, Suite 3024
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 646.202.9623
Email: info@mastervoices.org
Ted Sperling, Artistic Director
Jennifer Collins, Executive Director
Julie Morgan, General Manager and Associate Conductor
Christopher Judd, Development Associate
James Forbes Sheehan, Operations & Audience Development Coordinator
Pascal Nadon, Publicist
SENIOR STAFF BIOS
TED SPERLING, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
One of today’s leading musical artists, Ted Sperling is a director, music director, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, singer, pianist and violinist. Mr. Sperling became the Artistic Director of MasterVoices in October 2013.
Mr. Sperling comes from a musical family which inspired him to start violin and piano studies at the age of five. He added viola and harpsichord while studying in the pre-college program at The Juilliard School, where he received the faculty prize and the Baldwin prize. While majoring in music at Yale, Mr. Sperling was the principal violist in the Yale Symphony for three years, sang in the professional chapel choir, and was countertenor soloist in many concerts with the Bach Society, Glee Club and other groups, including the Bridgeport Symphony. Following his graduation from Yale, he was the assistant conductor at the Stamford Symphony and sang professionally at St. John the Divine, Park Avenue Synagogue, and with Amor Artis.
Since moving to New York Mr. Sperling has distinguished himself in a range of artistic genres. He has an active concert career, working with singers such as Audra McDonald, Victoria Clark, Patti LuPone, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Paulo Szot, Deborah Voigt and violinist Joshua Bell. He has conducted concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y.
Mr. Sperling won the 2005 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. Other Broadway credits include the rapturously received revivals of Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and South Pacific; Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, My Favorite Year, and Sunday in the Park with George. Off- Broadway credits include A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, Saturn Returns and Floyd Collins. Opera work includes two NYC premieres by composer Ricky Ian Gordon: 27 starring Stephanie Blythe, and The Grapes of Wrath, starring Nathan Gunn; Dido and Aeneas starring Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark; and La Voix Humaine starring Audra McDonald. Mr. Sperling’s work as a stage director includes the world premieres of The Other Josh Cohen, See What I Wanna See, Striking 12, and Charlotte: Life? Or Theater?, as well as a revival of Lady in the Dark. Recent gala performances include Show Boat with Vanessa Williams and Julian Ovenden, The Making of A Chorus Line with Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff, The Pirates of Penzance with Kevin Kline, Glenn Close and Martin Short, Cabaret with Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne, Song of Norway with Judy Kaye, She Loves Me with Santino Fontana, and The Mikado with Christopher Fitzgerald.
Mr. Sperling received the 2006 Ted Shen Family Foundation Award for leadership in the musical theater. He also serves as the Principal Conductor of the Westchester Philharmonic, consultant for the Public Theater, and Creative Director of the 24-Hour Musicals.
JENNIFER COLLINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer Collins brings to the executive staff experience in the creative and corporate worlds. Engaged as General Manager of MasterVoices in May of 2005, Ms. Collins was promoted to the position of Executive Director in March, 2007. Since joining the staff, she has worked to further build the reputation of MasterVoices by strengthening existing connections and initiating new relationships with partners in New York and abroad (including tours to Verbier, Israel and Salzburg). She has been instrumental in identifying works, artists and key collaborators while assisting Maestros Robert Bass, James Bagwell and Ted Sperling, and has worked with The Board in leading strategic planning, fundraising and special events efforts. Prior experience includes work as a member of the Corporate Branding Group at Ruder Finn and projects in the fields of Theater and Opera as a set designer and scenic artist. Collins, originally from Chicago, holds an MFA from Brandeis University and a BFA from the University of Evansville.
Julie Morgan, General manager and Assistant Conductor
Julie Morgan oversees operations of MasterVoices on a daily basis, working closely with the Artistic and Administrative staffs as well as the MasterVoices singing membership. She has worked for MasterVoices since 2008. With degrees in vocal performance from Boston and Temple Universities, she has sung professionally throughout the Northeast and South, as well as in Germany. She continues to perform regularly as soloist and professional chorister in the New York City area, and serves as Music Director and Conductor for a large church in Montclair, NJ.