Rush Hour Staff

Deborah Sobol
Artistic Director

Megan B. Balderston
Executive Director

Julie Hutchison
Managing Director

Nick Feder
Summer Intern

Louise Geraghty
Summer Intern

Megan Kingsbury
Summer Intern

Ian Ford
Summer Intern

Advisory Committee

Margaret Bergan Davis
Associate Dean for Cathedral Advancement, Washington National Cathedral

Larry Combs
Principal Clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Founding Member, Chicago Chamber Musicians

Kassie Davis
Executive Director, CME Trust

Connie Dickinson
President, DickinsonGroup

Sarah Forbes Orwig
Senior Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica

Quin Frazer
Partner, DrinkerBiddleGardnerCarton

Norm Goldring
Founder and Chairman, CPO Direct

Criss Henderson
Executive Director, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Rob Kapilow
Composer, Presenter, Conductor & Music Educator

Phil Kirk
DST Systems, Inc. (retired)

Pamela S. Lightcap
Bollinger, Ruberry, and Garvey

Jasmine Lin
Violinist
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Formosa Quartet

Nathan Mason
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

Clancy Newman
Cellist & Composer
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center

Norman Pellegrini
Founding Program Director, WFMT-FM 98.7 Radio
Radio Voice of Lyric Opera of Chicago

Dana Prizer Devereux
Community Leader

Laura Shapiro
Author, Julia Child, Something in the Oven, New York Magazine

Matias Tarnopolsky
Artistic Administrator, New York Philharmonic

Brant Taylor
Cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pink Martini
Lincoln Quartet

Gail Williams
Professor of Horn, Northwestern University School of Music
Founding Member, The Chicago Chamber Musicians

Bill Youmans
Principal, Bill Youmans Productions

Yuan-Qing Yu
Assistant Concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sebastian Quartet

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