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Staff and Boards

AMRC Staff

Name Title Office Email Phone
Tom Riis Director,
Symposia, programs, general information
Macky 229G/Imig N139 Thomas.Riis@colorado.edu 303-492-7540
Laurie Sampsel Curator
Donation of Collections
Imig N250 Laurie.Sampsel@colorado.edu 303-492-3929
C. F. Alan Cass Glenn Miller Archive
Glenn Miller Archive Inquiries
Macky 229F C.F.Alan.Cass@colorado.edu 303-492-5317
Eric Harbeson Music Special Collections Librarian
Information about collections, reference inquiries (except Glenn Miller Archives)
Macky 229H Eric.Harbeson@colorado.edu 303-735-1367
Eric Hansen Office Coordinator
Journal, subscriptions, general information
Macky 229G Eric.A.Hansen@colorado.edu 303-735-3645

 

AMRC Advisory Board

Caryl Kassoy AMRC Chair Boulder, CO
Barbara Brenton Retired Music Teacher Boulder, CO
Don Campbell Author, “The Mozart Effect” Boulder, CO
Alan Cass Curator, Glenn Miller Archives CU-AMRC
Bill Elliott Boulder, CO
Lissy Garrison Senior Director of Development CU Foundation
Eric Harbeson Music Special Collections Librarian CU-University Libraries
Kathy Kucsan Boulder, CO
Arthur Lieb  Retired Librarian Boulder, CO
Thurston Manning  Consultant on Higher Education Boulder, CO
Sacha Millstone Boulder, CO
Marilyn Newsom Retired Neurologist Boulder, CO
Tom Riis AMRC Director & Professor of Musicology CU-College of Music
Laurie Sampsel AMRC Curator CU-University Libraries
Daniel Sher Dean, College of Music CU-College of Music
Marc Shulgold Denver, CO
Jeremy Smith CU-College of Music
Dennis Spragg Milton, MA
Juli Steinhauer  Co-director, Conference on Wold Affairs Boulder, CO
Marty Stormo  Civic Leader Boulder, CO
Oakleigh Thorne  Founder, Thorne Ecological Institute Boulder, CO
Jim Williams Dean, University Libraries CU-University Libraries
Bob Fink  UCB Faculty Ombudsperson (Honorary Member)
William Kearns (Honorary Member)
Bob Lord President, Intermountain Consulting Service (Honorary Member)
Mary Ann Mulligan Retired Chair, Department of Music (Honorary Member)

 

AMRC National Honorary Council

Ysaye Barnwell Composer, arranger, author, co-founder Sweet Honey in the Rock Washington, D.C.
Horace Clarence Boyer (in memorium) Gospel performer, author How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel Amherst, MA
George Crumb Pulitzer Prize winning composer Media, PA
Samuel Floyd Founding director Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, IL
Don Grusin Performer, composer, arranger and producer of international stature Calabasas, CA
Thomas Hampson American baritone, recitalist, opera singer and recording artist New York, NY
Arthur Jones Founder Spirituals Project, professor at University of Denver Denver, CO
Pauline Oliveros Composer, Deep Listening proponent Kingston, NY
Vivian Perlis Founder Oral History American Music (Yale University) New Haven, CT
R.E.M. One of America’s premiere rock bands Athens, GA
Robert M. Stevenson Distinguished scholar of Hispanic and American music (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA