​The HPH Board of Directors

JOSH ARONSON
Founder and Sponsor​
After starting his career as a still photographer for Time Life, Josh began directing television films and commercials. Through Aronson Films, he directed MTV videos, television pilots and specials and over 500 commercials before turning to documentaries in 1999. Since then, he has made award winning documentaries on a fascinating variety of topics, but Josh has oftern returned to music as a theme in his films. These include ORCHESTRA OF EXILES, a Holocaust-era feature about the violinist who founded the Israel Philharmonic, TALENT HAS HUNGER, a 7 year odyssey following the cello students of master cello teacher Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory of Music and a fim about the Harmony Project in Los Angeles which Aronson made for PBS Weekend News. It was seeing first hand the remarkable impact of that program on inner city kids in LA that inspired Josh to found Harmony Project Hudson in a community that he knew could benefit from an after school music program for kids. Josh is also an amateur pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at the Telluride Musicfest, the chamber music festival he founded in 2002 with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann.
Allison Avery
​Allison Avery is a Jungian Analyst and the SVP of Learning and Flourishing at SYPartners, a boutique organizational transformation consultancy.  She has deep expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), Learning, and Leadership Development—dedicating the organizational focus of her career to enabling leaders, teams, and organizations to realize their potential, foster innovation, and support human thriving. Her portfolio spans being the global VP of Inclusion & Community at Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, to leadership roles at Skadden Arps LLP, NYU Langone Health & Hospital System, and NYU Medical School.

Additionally, Allison is a Jungian psychoanalyst and has an analytic-oriented Coaching Practice. She is on the faculty of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) and is an analyst member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP).

Allison holds an M.A. in Applied Psychology from New York University, lives in Brooklyn and is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco). As a learning enthusiast and Hudson Valley appreciator, Allison is thrilled to be a board member of Harmony Project Hudson, an organization that enables human flourishing, youth development and community enrichment through the performing, listening, and teaching of music.
Maria Bachmann
Maria Bachmann has a unique profile as a violin soloist, proponent of new music, and founding member of the critically acclaimed Trio Solisti. She has made recordings of repertoire encompassing music from every time, from Beethoven to contemporary works. Her collaborations include premieres of works by composers such as Philip Glass, Paul Moravec, and Lowell Liebermann, among many others.
 
As the violinist of Trio Solisti for two decades, Maria has made numerous recordings, and has been the Artistic Director of Telluride Musicfest for 14 years. Maria has also been involved in numerous outreach activities as an artist for the Pro Musicis Foundation. As a board member of Harmony Project Hudson, Maria is excited to share her love of music with younger generations. She remembers her first music lessons on piano at age 4, and on violin at age 7, and how happy playing music made her.
Maria’s wish for the participants of Harmony Project Hudson is to flourish as students and musicians. She loves seeing the joy on the faces of the participants and teachers as they present their annual performances.
​Sage Marie Carter
Sage Marie Carter officially joined Hudson Hall in the summer of 2015, after serving as a volunteer since 2014. Sage's background is in multimedia, theatrical design, and production management. As a freelance Projections Designer, she created projections for theater, opera, dance, sporting events, stand-up comedy, rock concerts and more. Theater credits include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Broadway, Steppenwolf), Having Our Say (Broadway, McCarter), Les Misérables (Drury Lane, Jeff Award), blessing the boats (Under The Radar, world tour), Ragtime (Drury Lane, Jeff Award Nominee), Berlin/Wall (The Public), Oresteia (Miller Theatre), 51st Dream State (world tour), A Well Appointed Room (Steppenwolf), Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theater Club, Alliance Theater), Never Sang for My Father (Steppenwolf), Dirty Tricks (The Public), Loves & Hours (Old Globe Theater), Miss Saigon (U.S. tour), Oo Bla Dee (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Public).
Zuzka Kurtz
Zuzka Kurtz was born in the last century in the center of Europe in a country that no longer exist. She travelled long and wide to find a refuge (Prague, Vienna, Rome, Tel Aviv, New York). For over two decades, she worked in India, Vietnam, and Burma with artisans and weavers designing luxury goods for the 1%. She is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose most recent film is Hudson, America, a documentary about six students from Hudson’s Bangladeshi community over the space of 6 years. She lives in NYC and Hillsdale NY. 
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​Charles Letourneau
Charles Letourneau, Principal at Charles Letourneau LLC Arts Consulting, has worked in the arts management field in New York for over 25 years.  Starting his career at Young Concert Artists, he went on to become vice-president at Columbia Artists Management and then spent 12 years as IMG Artists' Senior Vice President and Global Head of Festivals and Events.  Since founding Charles Letourneau LLC in 2015, Charles has maintained a distinguished list of clients that includes Festival Napa Valley, Festival of the Arts Boca, Concert Artists Guild, and The Violin Channel. 

Originally from Canada, Charles is an active violinist, and first became acquainted with Harmony Project after playing chamber music with Josh Aronson.  He and his wife, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach, own a house near Hudson, so joining the Board was a perfect way for Charles to lend his support to the community through his passion for the arts. 

Charles is also a food and wine enthusiast, and enjoys creating culinary delights from their garden and vineyard where they grow grapes, a large variety of flowers and vegetables, and produce their own wine. When they are not Upstate, Charles, Alexis, and their son Tristan live in Manhattan in an apartment crammed with two cellos, two violins, a piano, and a harpsichord.
Anne Mai
Bio coming soon.
​Beverley Zabriskie
​Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian analyst in New York City, a founding member, and former President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA), where she teaches Jungian theory and practice, theories of emotion, and the psychological interpretation of Egyptian Mythology and  other cultural symbol systems.  She is  an Associate Editor of  the Journal of Analytic Psychology,a past vice presidents of Philemon Foundation, which produces the unpublished works of  the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and is a past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center for Interdisplinary Investigation. 
Her many publications include "The One and Many Souls of New York" for Psyche and City, The Soul's Guide to the Modern Metropolis” ;“Imagination as Laboratory”; “Orpheus and Eurydice, A Creative Agon”;“The Other in Time and Timelessness”; “The Spectrums of Emotion”. She made her musical debut at 3 years old playing the triangle at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.