​The HPH Board of Directors

Allison Avery
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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.
​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.
​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.