Executive Director and Dean • Department Coordinators Strings • Woodwinds • Brass • Percussion • Guitar Piano • Organ • Voice • Staff Accompanists • Chamber Music Composition • Conducting • Eurhythmics • Musicianship Music Technology Lab • Jazz Studies Program The Preschool Center Executive Director and Dean JOAN BEHRENS BERGMAN - Executive Director, Piano B.M., M.M. Mannes College of Music. Studied: Lhevinne, Ganz, Aldwell, Hungerford, Schachter. Former Director, 1989 - 1996 Preparatory Division, Mannes College of Music; Chairperson, 1987 - 1989 Piano Department, Preparatory Division, Mannes College of Music; Faculty: Mannes College of Music College Division; Coordinator, 1980 - 1984 Chamber Music Concerts, Pierre Monteux Memorial Festival. Teaching and Master Classes: Japan; Walla Walla College; University of the Philippines; California Summer Music Institute; Lucy Moses School; Marymount College. Performance: Carnegie Recital Hall, solo recital; Memphis Symphony; North Jersey Symphony; Colorado Springs Symphony; Walla Walla Symphony; New Jersey Cultural Council; Pierre Monteux Memorial Festival. Member: Leschetizky Association; Piano Teachers Congress of New York. Listed: Who's Who Among America's Teachers. RUTH ALPERSON, Ph.D. - Dean, Eurhythmics, Musicianship, Junior Chorus B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., N.Y.U.; Dalcroze Eurhythmics Licentiate, London; Dalcroze Diploma, Geneva. Senior faculty, Dalcroze Program, Diller-Quaile. Workshops in Universities worldwide. Pianist, chamber music recitalist. Board of Directors: Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Former Faculty: Université Laval, Quebec, Manhattan School of Music, NYU. top of page