GINA GENOVA is the director of the American Composers Alliance, a music publishing company established by Aaron Copland in 1937. Formerly the senior research associate for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arts and Sciences Department of Music, she is currently also a curator and archivist for the Fales Library at NYU and for the Earle Brown Music Foundation. She earned her master of music degree from the University of Arizona, and a master of arts from New York University. Her dissertation on the music of John Watts and the Composers Theatre is deposited at NYU, where she was a Langley Fellowship recipient.
Aria Artists is a service organization for music-related research, copyright renewals and reclaims, permission agreements, and other types of practical administration for composers and authors. Gina formed Aria in 2000, where research and archival work has covered a gamut of projects around the United States and Europe. In recent years, she has developed, processed, edited, curated and supervised collections for composers, authors, publishers, music and dance performers, and their estates, including John Watts, Laura Foreman, Griffith Rose, David Amram, Ezra Laderman, Jack Gottlieb, Sholom Secunda, Earle Brown, Raoul Ronson, and Cantor David Putterman. She has been invited to speak and lecture on issues of music preservation and promotion by the Society of Composers, Inc., Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona, the Jewish Music Forum series in New York, the University of Potsdam music department in Berlin, and various community organizations.
In the 1980s, Gina worked as a producer for KXLU Radio and for George Liberace Music in Hollywood, and later, a production coordinator for American Playhouse and Warner Brothers, for more than 20 feature films, including Longtime Companion, Young Guns II, and Natural Born Killers. In the 1990s, she returned to graduate school to pursue a music degree, which has led to producing soundtracks for documentary films, collaborations with composers and spoken-word artists, including David Henderson, author of ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky: the biography of Jimi Hendrix, and senior staff positions with the American Music Center, the Milken Archive, and the American Composers Alliance. She is a member of ASCAP, the Recording Academy, and the Music Publishers Association, and shared the Deems-Taylor Award in 2004 for outstanding program notes on the recording of Joseph Achron’s Violin Concerto, on Naxos.
