European American Music Distributors Company is a member of the Schott Music Group

Schott Music Corporation and European American Music Distributors LLC Announce Three Senior Executive Promotions

Oct. 01, 2006

Schott Music Corporation and European American Music Distributors LLC (SMC/EAMDLLC), members of the Schott Music Group of worldwide companies, are pleased to announce the promotions of three of its New York-based staff, Caroline Kane, Norman Ryan and Amy Dickinson, to senior executive positions in the company. Caroline Kane has been named Vice President of Licensing and Administration, Norman Ryan has been named Vice President of Composers and Repertoire, and Amy Dickinson is now Head of Rental Services. The three promotions were made by Schott Music Group President Peter Hanser-Strecker in New York earlier this month.

Caroline Kane was born in Media, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Fine Arts from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and a Master of Music degree in Church Music from Northwestern University, and subsequently worked as an organist and choir director. She began her career in music publishing at The Theodore Presser Company in their sales department. She joined European American Music Distributors Corporation in Paoli, Pennsylvania in 1993 in the copyright department under the direction of Ronald Freed, and has assumed ever-increasing responsibilities within the company through its move to Miami in 1999 and to New York City in 2004.

Norman Ryan was born in Riverhead, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Brown University where he studied piano, clarinet, and conducting. He holds Certificates in Film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and in Italian language from Università di Siena. He previously held positions at the New York City Opera, The Public Theater, in the programming department of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and, most recently, at G. Schirmer, Inc. where he was Creative Director. In his roles at G. Schirmer and now at Schott Music, he has worked with many of the world's leading composers of contemporary music and opera and collaborated on projects with such distinguished opera companies as The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), American Opera Projects and Opera Boston, among many others. He has served as a creative consultant to the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Lincoln Center, and American International Artists and as a contributing writer to Stagebill and Playbill magazines. He serves on the board of directors of OPERA America, the American Music Center, Music Publishers' Association (MPA), American Opera Projects (AOP), The Fort Greene Park Conservancy (Brooklyn), and was formerly on the Music Advisory Board for the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. Norman Ryan joined Schott Music Corporation and European American Music Distributors LLC in January 2005.

Amy Dickinson was born in Plantation, Florida. She attended Peabody Conservatory and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Business from Stetson University in 1999. She earned a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance from Florida International University in 2001 and was a cellist in the orchestras of the Palm Beach Opera, Miami City Ballet, Florida Grand Opera, and Sunshine Pops, as well as a guest artist with the Boca String Quartet. She also served as Artist-in-Residence for the Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Amy Dickinson joined Schott Music Corporation and European American Music Distributors LLC in July of 2001.

SMC/EAMDLLC is the North American affiliate of the Schott Music Group of companies. In addition to being a full service music publisher, the company represents the complete worldwide catalogues of Schott Music, Universal Edition, European American Music Corporation, Schott Helicon Music Corporation, and the opera and concert catalogues of Warner/Chappell Music, Belwin-Mills Publishing Corporation, Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, the MCA/Universal Music Publishing Group and Glocken Verlag, among others. Schott Music is one of the world's oldest and most distinguished music publishing houses. Founded in 1770 in Mainz, Germany, the company's early history was highlighted by its publications of the piano scores and first editions of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The major late works of Ludwig van Beethoven followed including the Ninth Symphony and the Missa Solemnis, and the first publications of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the complete Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. Today, Schott Music Corporation and European American Music Distributors LLC publishes and represents an unrivaled repertoire of the world's leading contemporary composers including Gavin Bryars, George Friedrich Haas, Hans Werner Henze, Gyorgi Ligeti, Arvo Pärt, Stephen Paulus, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker, Bernard Rands, Wolfgang Rihm, Joseph Schwantner, Alvin Singleton, Johannes Maria Staud, Sir Michael Tippett, Mark Anthony Turnage, Kurt Weill and many others.

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