Gina Genova bio

GINA L. GENOVA is the Executive Director of the American Composers Alliance, a music publishing company established by Aaron Copland in 1937. Formerly the senior research associate for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arts and Sciences Department of Music, she was also a curator and archivist for the Fales Library at NYU and for the Earle Brown Music Foundation. She is currently a curator and producer of concerts for the American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM). She earned her bachelor's degree at Loyola Marymount University (1982), the master of music degree from the University of Arizona (1995), and a master of arts from New York University (1997), studying with Stanley Boorman and Gage Averill. Her dissertation on the music of John Watts and the Composers Theatre was completed at NYU, where she was a Langley Fellowship recipient. She completed the Certificate program in Intellectual Property Management at NYU in 2015. 

Gina formed Aria Artists Inc. in 2000, a service organization for music-related research, copyright renewals and reclaims, permission agreements, and other types of practical administration for composers and authors.  She has provided research and archival services for a gamut of projects around the United States and Europe. In recent years, she has developed, processed, edited, curated and supervised collections for composers, authors, illustrators, publishers, music and dance performers, and their estates, including John Watts, Laura Foreman, Griffith Rose, David Amram, Ezra Laderman, Jack Gottlieb, Sholom Secunda, Earle Brown, Raoul Ronson (Seesaw Music), and Cantor David Putterman.  She has been invited to speak and lecture on issues of music preservation and promotion for composers by the International Association of Music Libraries, the Society of Composers, Inc., NYU, Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona, the Jewish Music Forum series in New York, the University of Potsdam in Berlin.

In the 1980s, Gina worked as a producer for KXLU Radio, MSR Records, and George Liberace Music (publishing and recording) in Hollywood, and later, a production coordinator and unit manager for American Playhouse and Warner Brothers, for more than 20 feature films, including Longtime Companion, Young Guns II, and Natural Born Killers. In the mid- 1990s, she returned to graduate school to pursue a music degree, which has led to producing soundtracks for documentary films, collaborations with composers and spoken-word artists, including David Henderson, author of ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky: the biography of Jimi Hendrix, and senior staff positions with the American Music Center, the Milken Archive, and the American Composers Alliance. Gina is a member of ASCAP, the Recording Academy, and the Music Publishers Association, and was recognized at the Deems-Taylor Awards in 2004 for outstanding archival work and research on the program notes for the Grammy-award winning recording of Joseph Achron’s Violin Concerto, on Naxos.