ABOUT THE BOARD

 


Hana Janatova- President
For the past sixteen years, Hana Janatova has been actively involved in the music field, from performance and management to arts administration. With a degree in Piano Performance from the University of Arizona, Ms. Janatova has been active with such organizations as the Park City International Music Festival, the Children's Dance Theatre, and the Repertory Dance Theatre. As an educator, Ms. Janatova served from 1992-1994 as head piano instructor and director of the Tucson Parks and Recreation piano program, offering group piano and music instruction to primarily low - income families. Since relocating to Salt Lake City in 1994, Ms. Janatova runs a successful private piano studio. She has been a faculty member of the Utah Conservatory of Music after-school programs, and summer camps, served as pianist/ accompanist for the Park City Community Church, and performed as a free-lance pianist. She served as chairman for the Salt Lake Piano Area, Federation of Music Clubs, from 2000-2004. Ms. Janatova's, debut recording, Intermezzo, and was released in October 2002 under the name of Hana Lucarelli. Aside from music, Ms. Janatova dabbles in poetry, the visual arts, yoga, table - tennis, and enjoys Utah' s outdoors through hiking and skiing.

Robyn Rausher-Fellows, Vice-President

Robyn Rausher-Fellows received a Bachelor of Art Degree from Weber State University. She has worked as Graphic Designer for five years and now does freelance graphic work while staying at home with her two daughters.


Leita Kingsland - Secretary / Treasurer

Leita Kingsland is the Treasurer. She works seasonally for CBIZ, Mayer Hoffman McCann preparing taxes. Prior to that, she worked seventeen years for Varian Medical Systems as a Finance Manager. She began her career with a small CPA firm in Maryland, moved to Utah for a ski season and never returned. Having no prior exposure to music, she began taking piano lessons at age forty and loves being able to play. She is also on the board of Wasatch Community Gardens and active in the school leadership for the Salt Lake Arts Academy.

Charlotte Fife-Jepperson - Community Outreach

Charlotte has lived and worked as a piano teacher in Salt Lake City most of her life. She studied piano performance and political science at the University of Utah and has accompanied modern dance and ballet classes for over 15 years. She is a mother of three lively boys, ages 12, 5, and 3. She also works as a swim coach and is very active in her community as the editor of The West View community newspaper and as a board member of her local community council. Charlotte feels very fortunate to be able to make a living by teaching and sharing her passions with others.

Mark Fouxman

Originally from Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia, Mark Fuksman has performed as a soloist, with orchestra, and in chamber music recitals in some of the greatest halls in Russia, Israel, and Holland, including the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, Jerusalem Music Center, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of legendary professor Lev Naumov, Mr. Fouxman moved to the US in 1998 to complete his DMA at ASU. Concert engagements in the United States have included recitals at Scottsdale Steinway Hall, Chicago Steinway Hall, Arizona State University, and the University of Utah; a live broadcast on WFMT radio station in Chicago; and performances at the New York International Piano Festival in 2003 and 2006. In October 2007 he gave a concert tour in Russia. Mr. Fuksman has given numerous master classes and presentations throughout Russia, Israel, Holland, and the United States. Most of his private students have won local and state piano competitions.