Committees

Committee Chairs

For each committee or subcommittee, key personnel are identified.

Archives	Tiffany Ng, Chair
Associate Carillonneur Examination	Jim Fackenthal, Chair
Bulletin	Kimberly Schafer, Editor
Carillon News	Austin Ferguson, Caroline Poon, Editors
Carillonneur Examination	Patrick Macoska, Chair
Finance	John Widmann, Chair
Heritage Music Committee	Joy Banks, Andrea McCrady, Co-Chairs
Johan Franco Composition Fund	Joey Brink, Tom Lee, Co-Chairs
Legal	David Hunsberger, Chair
Membership Enrichment	Carol Anne Taylor, Chair
Music Publications	Laura Ellis, Chair Carlo van Ulft (Arrangements) John Gouwens (Compositions)
Nominations	Lisa Lonie, Chair
Professional Concerns	Jeremy Chesman, Ellen Dickinson, Co-chairs
Public Relations and Website	Roy Lee, Tim Sleep, Co-chairs
Ronald Barnes Memorial Fund	Carolyn Bolden, Linda Dzuris, Co-chairs
Roster	Wylie Crawford, Chair
Sally Slade Warner Arrangements & Transcriptions Competition Committee	Ellen Dickinson, Chair
Tower Construction & Renovation	Patrick Macoska, Chair
WCF Delegation	Carol Anne Taylor, Chair
2021 GCNA Congress	Ellen Dickinson, Host (Trinity College, Hartford)
2022 GCNA Congress	Joey Brink, Host (University of Chicago)
Board Subcommittee for Appreciation & Recognition	Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, Chair
Board Subcommittee for Congress Planning	Joey Brink, Chair

Committees Seeking New Members

The following committees are currently seeking new members. Please check back regularly for updates.

Music Publications Committee

The Music Publications Committee is looking for members with some or all these qualities: comfortable communicating and responsive via email, familiarity with Finale/Sibelius, be interested in reviewing the acceptability of up 20 compositions on an annual basis, knowledge of copyright issues. Please contact Laura Ellis for more information.

Bulletin Committee

The Bulletin is one of the tangible benefits of membership in the GCNA, and it is published by the efforts of a small number of devoted volunteers. For the first time, the Bulletin editor is seeking new committee members via an open call. The editor is announcing a call for volunteers in order to promote excellent representation of our guild’s diverse members, including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, and their perspectives in committee deliberations and decisions.

Any current member of the guild, at any membership level, is eligible to apply. To do so, members are required to initiate the process by emailing the editor. The applicant will then undergo a short copyediting test and afterwards converse with the editor to assess their fit within the committee. The publication of the Bulletin requires many varied skills; no one committee member is expected to cover them all. All committee members should have a reasonable grasp of carillon history, technology, and recent scholarship to fairly evaluate article submissions, and they all should have basic proficiency in copyediting and proofreading. Other skills we need include developmental editing; photo editing; publication layout (InDesign); score layout (Sibelius or Finale); foreign languages, especially French and Dutch; musical acoustics; music composition, theory, education, or history; mathematics; data construction and visualization; material cultures/material studies; architecture; gender studies; and race and ethnic studies.

If interested, please send your email with a description of your skills and interests to Kim Schafer. With the recent departure of two committee members, the editor desires to add more members as soon as possible; application by July 20th is strongly encouraged. Subsequent applicants will be considered on an annual or as-needed basis.