Joel Gordon, executive producer

A producer at WGBH Radio for 20 years, Joel Gordon has produced over 1,000 live performance programs, concert and studio recordings, and classical, new music, and traditional music specials. Prior to this he served as program director of WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin while hosting his own classical and new music programs. Since 1991 he has also worked as an independent recording engineer and producer of contemporary music, world music, and jazz, for over 125 CDs.

Sixteen years ago Gordon began a series of extended recording trips documenting the music and lifestyles of endangered cultures. In 1990 he spent two months in Hungary and Transylvania recording and producing a radio documentary, CD, and photo essay on traditional Hungarian music and village life. In 1998 Gordon traveled to Tuva and Yakutsk (Siberia) with musicologist and author Ted Levin to record and produce a CD on animism and music entitled Tuva: Among the Spirits (Smithsonian Folkways). In 2004 Levin and Gordon began the first in a series of recordings in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as part of the 10-CD recording project Music of Central Asia (Smithsonian Folkways) sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

Gordon graduated magna cum laude in music from California State University at Sonoma, and has done graduate work in industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Matthew Packwood, producer

Matthew Packwood is a classical music and film producer and curator based in Portland, Oregon. He has produced and edited recordings for a number of labels including Albany, Arabesque, Arsis, Bridge, Centaur, CRI, Dorian, Hänssler, Musica Omnia, Naxos, Newport Classic, New World, Summit, and Tzadik. Before joining Art of the States in 1997, Packwood studied music composition at Northwestern University in Chicago and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he earned a Master's degree with distinction.

Also active in film, Packwood has been a guest curator and conservator at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recent projects include a retrospective of the work of contemporary Russian film composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.

Executive Board

Donald Berman
Pianist and Lecturer
Tufts University

Martin Brody
Catharine Mills Davis Professor of Music
Wellesley College

Joel Gordon
Executive Producer
Art of the States

Lisa Lavina
Director of Administration
WGBH Educational Foundation

E. Brad Meyer
President
Point One Audio

Christopher Morgan
President
Christopher Morgan Communications

Matthew Packwood
Producer
Art of the States

Advisory Board

Robert Black
Associate Professor of Double Bass
The Hartt School

Richard Crawford
Professor of Music, Emeritus
University of Michigan

John Harbison
Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lee Hyla
Harry and Ruth Wyatt Professor of Theory and Composition
Northwestern University

Judith Ilika
Director of Performance Promotion
Theodore Presser Company

Steven Mackey
Professor of Music
Princeton University

Vivian Perlis
Director, Oral History, American Music
Yale University

Judith Tick
Matthews Distinguished University Professor
Northeastern University