Musicologist Music Consultant Expert Witness

MUSICOLOGIST / MUSIC CONSULTANT

Responsibilities include: Leading and managing a diverse team of 6 music experts of doctoral level, some of whom have been with us for 10 – 20 years. Our team includes concert artists and scholars from premier international conservatories (Juilliard, Brussels Conservatory, Eastman, Yale) with the advantage that perfect pitch brings to our analytical work.

Expert is the lead consultant and testifying expert witness for clients in the music, entertainment, technology, media, and legal professions. We consult on diverse musical genres and applications, including differing cultures and styles, from western concert music to popular urban styles to music of indigenous societies.

The firm holds the distinction of being the first organization in the USA to provide its wide range of specialized expertise and services.

Present concentrations include:

• Music copyright infringement issues (expert testimony, disputes, risk prevention)
• Music supervision in film, television, and advertising
• Artist development and support
• Fundraising, membership/audience development for arts education, performance, and intellectual property organizations
• Marketing and programming innovation
• Commissioning new musical works
• Concert, tour, conference, and event production at major venues
• Debut concert production and marketing
• Team and consensus building for medical and arts initiatives, including organizing fundraising events for Columbia University Medical Center (building new children’s pulmonary wing), Orchestra of the 20th Century (Carnegie Hall), and Copyright Society of the USA
• Composer/performer representation and management
• Music licensing
• Criteria development for foundation grants

UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), Faculty, Musicology, 2018-present

II. Selected Clients and Projects

Artist Clients (Consulting)

• Bob Dylan
• Gordon Getty
• Itzhak Perlman, violinist
• Pinchas Zukerman, violinist and conductor
• Tod Machover, composer
• Jonathan Coulton (NPR)
• Kronos Quartet
• Cleveland Quartet

Educational and Performance Institution Clients (Consulting)

• M.I.T. Media Lab (Formation and Development)
• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Carnegie Hall
• Lincoln Center
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria) – 5 years
• Orchestra of the 20th Century (Arthur Weisberg, conductor) – 8 years
(Board, fundraising, concert production)
• San Francisco Ballet
• Meet the Composer (initiated, and long-term consulting)
• Artists of the Metropolitan Opera
• London Sinfonietta
• Pompidou Center, Paris
• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (initiated and headed commissioning project) – 10 years
• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (initiated and headed commissioning project) –6 years

Clients and Participants in Disputes (Expert Testimony and Analyses)

• Marvin Gaye Estate
• Duke Ellington Estate
• Bob Marley Estate
• Igor Stravinsky Estate
• Michael Jackson
• Beyoncé
• Chuck Berry
• Lionel Richie
• National Music Publishers Association (before Copyright Royalty Board)
• 2 Live Crew
• Blues Traveler
• Lady Gaga
• Blue Man Group
• Ludacris
• Cy Coleman
• Christina Aguilera
• The Beastie Boys
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Chris Isaak
• Julio Iglesias
• U2
• Jay-Z
• Dr. Dre
• New Kids on the Block
• The Suzuki Method
• ZZ Top

Film, Television Series, and Broadway Theater Clients

• Barney and Friends – 8 years
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• On The Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
• The Good Wife
• Sophisticated Ladies – Broadway production
• The Voice
• Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
• Dora the Explorer (Disney)
• Pretty Little Liars
• The Lion King – Broadway production

Law Firm Clients

• Mitchell, Silberberg & Knapp
• King & Ballow
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Pryor Cashman LLP
• Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
• Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz
• Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger
• Proskauer, Rose
• Winston & Strawn
• Loeb & Loeb
• Moses & Singer

Music Industry/Media Clients

• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• HBO
• Disney/ABC
• Lionsgate Entertainment
• Sony/BMG Records
• NBC Universal
• Sony Music
• Universal Music Group
• American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)

• Amazon Studios
• Netflix
• Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
• Apple, Inc.
• Grey Advertising
• Young & Rubicam Advertising
• EMI Music Publishing and Recordings
• Def Jam Records
• Boosey & Hawkes
• Music Sales
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Warner/Chappell Music Publishers
• Playtech (video games, Israel)
• Aruze Corporation, Tokyo

III. Honors

Commencement Speaker, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, 2018 Volunteer of the Year, Copyright Society of the USA, 2011

IV. Prior Positions

Founding Director of Composer Manuscript Collection and Publications
American Music Center’s Music Information Center New York City, 4 years

Identified and created special archive collection for manuscripts by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Virgil Thomson, and developed special collection housed at New York Public Library and Yale School of Music

Founding Director of Directory Project
American Music Center New York City, 2 years

Responsibilities included:
• Compiling and supervising research and publication of The Contemporary Music Performance Directory – a 200 page resource for composers and performers covering funding, grant application guidance, concert halls, festivals, and other resources— commissioned by the N.Y. State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts
• Raising $40,000 in order to publish and promote the book, and to perpetuate future editions

Music Publications, Score Editor, and Music Book Editor

Publisher Clients included:
• G. Schirmer
• Associated Music Publishers
• Theodore Presser
• Éditions Salabert
• Alexander Broude, Inc.

Edited scores and created arrangements for music in all performance categories: instrumental, vocal, choral, band, orchestral, and electronic

Edited comprehensive treatises on complete Verdi operas and music of Salamone Rossi

Director of Music Research
Joseph Boonin Music Publications

Responsibilities included:
• Designing and editing concert music catalogs for professional musicians, conductors, musicologists, and librarians
• Creating access to the college music textbook market, recommending textbooks and new music editions to college professors and music librarians
• Copy editing and rewriting musicology textbooks
• Recommending special editions and works to conductors and performers

V. Education

M.A., Musicology
University of California, Berkeley
• Specialization: French opera
• Primary studies with Richard Crocker (musicology, early music; graduate advisor), Joseph Kerman, Vincent Duckles (music library science and resources), Alan Curtis (harpsichord)

B.A., Music Performance (Piano) University of California, Los Angeles
• Primary studies with Aube Tzerko (piano), Henri Lazarof (composition, musicianship, harmony, analysis), Nicholas Slonimsky (musicology), Paul Tanner, Alden Ashforth (jazz), ethnomusicology courses and ensembles

1981 – Present: Attendee and guest speaker at over 150 conferences and events on intellectual property law and music industry throughout the USA and abroad (for which attendees received Continuing Legal Education credit)

VI. Selected Speaking Engagements (Keynote, Moderator, Panelist)

Recent topics: Milestone copyright infringement cases, the “Blurred Lines” case musical analysis, music created by artificial intelligence, forensic musicology, music technology, film and commercial music

A. Universities and Conservatories – Moderator/Speaker

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, commencement speaker, May 2018 Harvard University, March 2016
Columbia University Law School, 2016

Fordham Law School International Copyright Law Seminar (annual), New York, 1991 – Present Stanford University Law School, October 2010
Vanderbilt University, 2000

Frost School of Music, University of Miami, 2016 Drexel University, 2000
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, October 2018

B. Law/Intellectual Property Organizations – Moderator/Speaker

Practicing Law Institute, New York (Advanced Copyright Seminar), March, 2018 and 2017 Copyright Society of the USA, Los Angeles Chapter, February, 2018
Copyright Society of the USA, New York chapter, 1987 – 2017 Presentations to an audience of copyright lawyers on:
• Musical comparisons and analysis techniques
• Digital sampling
• Music licensing
• Criteria for drawing conclusions of possible copyright infringement American Bar Association annual conference, August, 2017, New York All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property, October, 2016
New York State Bar Association, September, 2016

American Bar Association, Intellectual Property conference, April, 2016 Los Angeles Copyright Society, Beverly Hills, April, 2008
Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section, New York State Bar Assn., Motion Picture Committee, New York, February, 2006, 2016

Beverly Hills Bar Assn., Beverly Hills, CA, December, 2005

American Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001

C. Music Industry – Moderator/Speaker

South by Southwest Festival, 2017

Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), September 2018 (New York), September 2016 (Los Angeles), “Anatomy of a Sample”

Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), September 2016 (Los Angeles), June 2017 (New York): “Music Licensing” challenges

National Association of Music Merchants Annual Conference, 2015 – 2017 Cellular/Electronic Technology Conference, San Francisco, 2000
Panelist, National Music Publishers’ Assn., New York, 1995, 1987

Speaker, American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria, 1981 – 84
Topics addressed to emerging opera singers included: “Selling Yourself,” “Marketing a New Artist,” “The Business of Music,” and “How to Have a Career in Europe”

Music Library Association (on self-publishing opportunities for composers)