Honorary Advisory Board

The Honorary Board of the Scheherazade Initiative consists of the following members:

ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN

President, Bernstein Family Foundation

REV. DR. AMY K. BUTLER

Senior Minister, The Riverside Church

CATHERINE M. CAHILL

President and CEO, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia

ELMIRA DARVAROVA

Former Concertmaster, MET Orchestra
President, New York Chamber Music Festival

MALLIKA DUTT

President and CEO, Breakthrough

AARON DWORKIN

Founder and President, The Sphinx Organization

JOANN FALLETTA

Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic
Music Director, Virginia Symphony Orchestra

JAMES GANDRE

President, Manhattan School of Music

AMJAD ALI KHAN

Sarod Maestro and Composer 

ZARIN MEHTA

Former President, New York Philharmonic

PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women

SIR ROGER NORRINGTON

Chief Conductor, Zurich Chamber Orchestra

JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ

Chief Executive Officer, ACUMEN

GUNTHER SCHULLER (In Memoriam, 1925-2015)

Composer and Conductor

AROON SHIVDASANI

Executive Director, Indo-American American Arts Council

ROBERT SIROTA

Composer

MARA TOPPING

Partner, White & Case LLP

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town
Honorary Elder, The Elders

MATTHEW VANBESIEN

President, New York Philharmonic

ROBERT W. VAN ZWIETEN

President and CEO, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association
Chairman, Music for Life International