Board of Directors
Board member experience includes substantial business and academic management, plus over 100 years of aggregate production experience.
Kevin Lay, President
Jeff Winslow, Secretary/Treasurer
Ted Clifford, Past President
Jan Middlesteadt, In Good Hands Coordinator
Greg Steinke, Concert Programs and more
David Jones, Vice President
John Hidalgo, Publicity
Timothy O'Brien
Steven James
Nicolas Yandell
Tributes to Founding Members
David Bernstein (1942-2023)
“Bernstein, who died July 13 at age 81, leaves a legacy beyond his loving family, beyond the emotionally charged music he created. He leaves an enduring institution, Cascadia Composers, that provides the state’s most valuable forum for contemporary music in the classical tradition. And a long list of admiring and now grieving colleagues, some of whom remember him here.”
Tomáš Svoboda (1939-2022)
Professor Emeritus Tomáš Svoboda was a French-born Czech-American composer and pianist who taught music at Portland State University for 31 years before retiring in 2001. His catalog contains more than 200 compositions, and his music has been performed well over 1000 times worldwide. His compositions cover a wide range of emotional terrain, often contrasting consonance with dissonance, tenderness with intensity, and playfulness with gravity. His 2003 Marimba Concerto, performed by the Oregon Symphony and soloist Neil DePonte Duponte, received a 2003 Grammy Award nomination. He was a founding member of Cascadia Composers in 2008 and married to fellow artist Jana DeMartini. He suffered a major stroke in 2012, but continued to connect with musicians performing his music in the final decade of his life. Although he was a favorite composer in Oregon, he never quite received the widespread international recognition that his music deserved. A large community of musicians, former students, and family remember his humility, wit, and humor. His legacy lives on in his music.
