Panel Report Music Level 1

Memorandum

The Music Level 1 grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on September 2, 2015. Thirty-one (31) eligible applications were reviewed and all were recommended for funding.

A complete list of all reviewed applications, with the request amounts and final scores, is provided in the following sections.

Panel comment was as follows:

There were no panel comments.

Public comment was as follows:

There were no public comments.

Panel Biographies

Kelly Allocco

Miami-Dade County

• Projects Administrator, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Major Cultural Institutions (MCI) Grants Program and Capital Development (CAP) Grants Program, Miami, Florida
• Classically trained vocalist, performed with the Florida Grant Opera Chorus from 1993 to 2010
• B.A., Music Industry with a minor in Business Administration, University of Miami

Jennifer Grozio

Orange County

• Assistant Director of Development, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
• Previously Development Director at the Adult Literacy League; Development Manager at the Orange County Regional History Center
• Former Choir Member at the Bach Festival Choir, Board Member at Ten Thousand Villages Winter Park, previously served on the Marketing Committee at Orlando Opera, served for several years as a panelist for the Orange County Public Schools Educators Grant Review process
• B.A., Communication and Spanish, Environmental Studies Minor, SUNY University at Buffalo; Certificate in Proposal Writing, Rollins College Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center

Mark Kent

Broward County

• Executive Director, Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida
• Previously Vice President for Education and Community Engagement, Atlanta Symphony; director of Education and Community Outreach, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation; Director of Education and Programming, Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta; Director of Community Programs, Hands on Atlanta
• B.A., Theatre, Florida State University

Andrew Kurtz

Lee County

• Music & Executive Director/Conductor, Gulf Coast Symphony, Fort Myers, Florida
• General and Artistic Director, Center City Opera Theater, Philadelphia
• Previously Music Director, Florida Jewish Philharmonic Orchestra; Producing Artistic Director of Synergy Productions (FL); and Resident Music Director of the Jr. Session at the Luzerne Music Center; and held conducting posts with Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, The Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Ash Lawn-Highland Opera Festival and the Ocean City Pops
• Served on the Board of the Lee County Alliance for the Arts for nine years and on the Board of the Conductors' Guild, and received the prestigious 2007 “Performing Artist of the Year” Angel of the Arts Award and was the First Prize winner of the 2001 Accademia Dell’Arte di Firenze International Conducting Competition
• PhD, Conducting, Peabody Conservatory; M.M., History; B.A., Music and Drama, University of Virginia 

Lisa Miller

Palm Beach County

• Director of Annual Giving Programs, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida
• Previously Executive Director, Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona; Director of Annual Giving, University of Arizona Foundation
• B.S., Psychology, University of Arizona
• Ph.D. in management

Debra Moroff

Miami-Dade County

• Grants Consultant, Miami, Florida
• Previously Foundations & Community Relations, Classical South Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Director, Grants and Government Support, Museum of Discovery and Science; Grants Manager, Health Choice Network, Miami, Florida; President, Metromania Communications, Miami, Florida
• Served on the Arts & Business Council Miami: National Arts Marketing Project Steering Committee, Chairman, Board of Trustees
• B.S., Northwestern University; M.A., University of Iowa

Jerome Shannon

Escambia County

• Music Director & Principal Conductor, Pensacola Opera, Pensacola, Florida
• Resident Conductor & Vocal Coach, Janiec Opera Company @ Brevard Music Center
• Has served as a judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, On-Site Evaluator and Reporter for the National Endowment for the Art and is the recipient of OPERA America’s BRAVO Service award for dynamic leadership in the industry
• Previously guest conductor with Washington National Opera, Nashville Opera, Tulsa Opera, San Antonio Opera, Shreveport Opera, Anchorage Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, Opera Naples, Opera Roanoke, Lake George Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Ash Lawn-Highland Festival
• B.M., Piano Performance with emphasis on Coaching and Accompanying, West Virginia University

Panel Recommendations

This list contains the panel recommendations to the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. This is not a final funding recommendation. Panel review is step 2 in a 4 step review process.