The Atlanta Music Project Boardroom
Board of Directors
Al Meyers
CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN
Al Meyers is President of Saisei Consulting, a provider of strategy and corporate development advisory services to early-stage, growth-stage and later-stage digital media companies around the world, with an emphasis on video games and game-based learning for the K-12 environment. Meyers is also an advisory board member to a couple of early-stage digital media companies…Read More
Philip M. Juravel, CPA, CITP
TREASURER
Phil Juravel is the owner of Juravel & Company, LLC, a small full service CPA firm in Alpharetta, Georgia in operation since 1987. Phil is presently the Treasurer of the Georgia Ensemble Theatre Company in Roswell, Georgia. The company operates out of the Roswell Municipal Auditorium and does numerous main stage professional productions as well as a Conservatory for children in the summer. They also do several productions for the local schools…Read More
Peggy Still Johnson
Peggy is on the Advisory Board for Georgia State University School of Music, GSU DEE (Digital Entertainment Entrepreneurship), and is on the Board of Governors (Composer Seat) for the Atlanta Chapter of The Recording Academy. She works with the Dallas Austin Foundation, the Buckhead Club, serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Film Festival, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Music Project…Read More
Dantes Rameau
Born in Ottawa, Canada, bassoonist Dantes Rameau is of Haitian and Cameroonian descent. He is a member of the first class of Abreu Fellows at the New England Conservatory. As an Abreu Fellow Dantes spent one year studying El Sistema including two months in Venezuela where he taught, performed and observed. During the Abreu Fellow Program he co-founded the Atlanta Music Project…Read More
Desiree Scales
Desiree Scales is Chief Executive Officer of Bella Web Design, an award-winning Atlanta-based company that provides a full range of web design and online marketing services…Read More
Jim Williams
Jim Williams, a Chicago native, is the founder and CEO of M.O.R.E. Computer Supplies, a Michigan based company that provides a full line of office products from computers and office furniture, to gift baskets and paper clips Jim is semi retired and is in the third year of a five year plan for employees to purchase his interest, and is looking forward to the completion of the process…Read More
Board of Advisors
Alcides Rodriguez
Alcides Rodriguez joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as bass clarinetist in the fall of 2005. He received his degrees in music from Baylor and Northwestern Universities, studying with Richard Shanley,Russell Dagon, and J. Lawrie Bloom, as well as chamber music with Larry Combs. He began his musical training in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of his hometown, Guanare, Venezuela, and continued at the National Conservatory of Music of Venezuela with professors Valdemar Rodríguez and Luis Rossi…Read More
Joseph Conyers
Profiled in Ebony Magazine as one of 30 Leaders 30 and Younger, Joseph H. Conyers is the newly appointed assistant principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He joins Philadelphia after a one-and-a-half tenure with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, three-and-a half years as principal bass of the Grand Rapids Symphony (MI), and four summers as a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra (NM)…Read More
Melanie Darby
Director of Education Programming, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Dr. Marian L. Harrison
Dr. Marian L. Harrison is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. In August of 2007, she became the first African American to receive the Doctorate of Music degree in Music Composition from Indiana University’s (IU) Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. While attending IU, she studied composition with David Baker, Sven-David Sandström, David Dzubay, Don Freund, and P.Q. Phan…Read More
Ahmad Mayes
Ahmad Mayes recently returned to his native city of Atlanta as an accomplished youth orchestra administrator, music educator, and musician. Most recently, Ahmad served as the Director of Operations & Artistic Administration for Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA), where he was integral in the creation of the YOSA Music Learning Center, an El Sistema inspired orchestra program that is now in its third year serving impoverished youth in San Antonio, Texas…Read More
Saju Samuel
Saju Samuel is a highly entrepreneurial visionary who founded or co-founded over 10 businesses including three professional services organizations. Saju has over 19 years of outstanding leadership in business…Read More
Dr. Marilyn Seelman
Dr. Marilyn Seelman is Music Director/Conductor of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Atlanta. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Miami-Coral Gables, Florida and her Master of Music in Viola from Boston University. She has held the position of Director of Orchestras and violist at Trinity University in San Antonio, The University of New Mexico-Albuquerque and Georgia State University…Read More
Purvi G. Shah, CPA
Purvi is CPA working for Juravel & Company, LLC. She’s been with the firm since July of 2008…Read More
Stanford Thompson
An Atlanta native, trumpeter Stanford Thompson is Program Director of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra’s Tune Up Philly, an El Sistema-inspired program. He is a member of the first class of Abreu Fellows at the New England Conservatory…Read More
Arjan Timmermans
Arjan Timmermans is author of the famed ArjanWrites.com blog, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed music blogs on the web. Since 2003, Arjan has been tipping readers about emerging acts and cutting-edge new music. The blog received a Forbes magazine “Best of Blog” award and Billboard magazine “Best Music Blog” award nomination in 2007…Read More
Ben Cherian
Ben Cherian is an Atlanta entrepreneur who has spent most of his career bulding technology companies. He is the managing partner of ServiceCloud, a consultancy that helps companies design and manage their IT infrastructure. He also runs Kinetic Path, a company that helps businesses align their business goals with their technology strategy…Read More
