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New Staff at Juilliard
Lori Bierly, assistant director of major and planned
gifts, is a native of Pensylvania and a graduate of Susquehanna
University in Selingsgrove, Penn. with a bachelor’s degree in
music education. In May she received her master’s degree in nonprofit
management from the New School University in New York. Prior to
coming to Juilliard, Lori worked for the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She is also
an amateur pianist and is excited about being a part of the Juilliard
community.
Sarah Roth joins the Development Office in the new post
of director of national outreach (and serving also as director
of alumni affairs). She comes to Juilliard from Boston, where
she was most recently a major gifts fund-raiser for Northeastern
University during their $200 million capital campaign. Sarah received
her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Washington
University in St. Louis, and her M.B.A. from Northeastern. She
has been a professional fund-raiser for seven years, as well as
a volunteer cabinet member for Washington University’s $1.5 billion
campaign in Boston, and now in New York and New Jersey. As an
avid lover of piano and dance, Sarah is especially delighted to
be at Juilliard, where her grandfather, his brothers, and a cousin
all studied.
Mary Belanger becomes administrative assistant to the
president, after having worked as editorial assistant in the Office
of Publications since the spring of 2000. She earned degrees in
piano from the University of Minnesota and Indiana University
School of Music before moving to New York to pursue accompanying
as a career. She was invited to serve as official accompanist
for international string competitions held in Indianapolis, St.
Louis, and Paraiba, Brazil, and has performed with artists such
as Miriam Fried, Alexander Markov, Scott Yoo, David Jolley, and
many others. Prior to coming to Juilliard, she was assistant director
of the Preparatory Division at the Manhattan School of Music.
Martha Sterner becomes executive assistant to the president.
She joined Juilliard in the fall of 1998 as associate registrar,
after working as assistant registrar at the Manhattan School of
Music. She attended Westminster Choir College and the London Academy
of Music and Dramatic Arts, and earned her B.S. at Eastern Michigan
University. Having given up show business in favor of marriage
and children, Martha tried the corporate life, designing telephone
systems for the Rolm Company and selling paper for Boise Cascade
and Lindenmeyer Central.
Associate vice president for financial services and controller
Christine Todd comes to Juilliard after nine years at Columbia
University, where she was assistant controller. Before that, she
spent three years as an associate with the accounting and auditing
firm Coopers & Lybrand. A C.P.A., Christine holds an M.B.A.
degree from Columbia University and bachelor’s degrees in accounting
and German from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
She plays the clarinet in her free time, attempting to maintain
some semblance of a practice schedule and performing with a woodwind
quintet, and is very excited to be at Juilliard.
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