Jeremy Geffen
2005 District Judge

Jeremy Geffen joined the staff of the New York Philharmonic as artistic administrator in September 2000, following three years as associate artistic administrator of the Aspen Music Festival and School. In Aspen,
he frequently led audience-development activities: in the summer giving pre-concert lectures prior to Aspen Festival Orchestra concerts and hosting the public discussion series "High Notes" and in the winter
hosting the Aspen Music Festival's series of interactive and informal concerts. He also taught courses in Exoticism in 20th Century Music, Music and Dance, and Music and Poetry. In the winter of 2000 Geffen
served as a moderator for two seminars entitled "The Marriage of Music and Ideas" at the Aspen Institute. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Geffen was trained as a violist at the University of Southern California
and has studied with such notable pedagogues as Donald McInnes, Karen Tuttle, Robert Vernon, Jerome Lowenthal and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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