Stephen Leibholz

(1932-2014)
Chair Board of Directors 2004-2014

STEPHEN LEIBHOLZ (1932-2014) was a physicist and entrepreneur who studied composition with Isaac Nemiroff and taught the acoustic and physiological foundations of composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He liked to claim that he had not yet composed anything noteworthy (pun). In his day job, Stephen was the CEO and Chief Scientist of TechLabs. He served as Trustee of the Cheltenham Center for the Arts and was a Former Trustee of the Jenkintown Music School (now merged with Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School). He was also an advisor to and helped found the Kansas City Camerata and was a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. In addition to being an active member of the New York Composers Circle, he also served as the Chairman of the Board for ten years.