Our Artistic Team

Dr. Anne Matlack - Artistic Director

Anne Matlack (BA Music cum laude, Yale University; MM, DMA Choral Conducting, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) has been Artistic Director of Harmonium Choral Society since 1987. During her tenure as Artistic Director, the 100-voice choral society has been recognized for its musical excellence and innovative programming.

In addition to her work with Harmonium, Dr. Matlack is celebrating her 31st year as Organist/Choirmaster at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. There she directs a full program of children and adult choirs and a concert series, Grace Community Music. Her excellent all-volunteer adult choir performs Evensongs and large choral works every year, and her children's choir training program follows Royal School of Church Music standards and has 50 children ages 7-18 singing in three different levels. Grace Church and Harmonium singers joined to serve as Choir-in-Residence at Winchester Cathedral in the summer of 2015.

Dave Davis - Accompanist

Dave Davis holds a Bachelors and Masters of Music in piano performance from Rutgers University where he studied with Samuel Dilworth-Leslie. After graduation he pursued further piano studies with Albert and Miyoko Lotto of the Julliard School. He still loves practicing solo piano repertoire. He also enjoys playing jazz and continues to aspire to develop his skills as an improvisor. A major portion of Dave’s musical career consists of serving in many different capacities as an accompanist for instrumentalists, vocalists, dance, theatrical productions, community choruses, a service accompanist, and private piano instructor. Currently, he plays for services at Temple Sinai in Summit, Community Congregational Church in Short Hills, and Oheb Shalom in South Orange. He is also a staff accompanist for the Kent Place School in Summit.

  • Dr. Matlack is active as an adjudicator and clinician. She has taught at Kean University and Lafayette College, and conducted the Yale University Freshman Chorus. Her conducting teachers have included Fenno Heath, Elmer Thomas, and Earl Rivers, and she has participated in workshops with Robert Shaw and Eric Ericson. She studied organ with Charles Krigbaum, Michael Schneider, and David Mulbury, and has sung in the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall and with the Yale Alumni Chorus at the Kremlin in Moscow. Dr. Matlack previously served with the New Jersey Board of the American Choral Directors Association as President and as Repertoire and Resources Chair for Community Choirs.

    Dr. Matlack is married to Jabez Van Cleef, a writer who has participated in several commissions with her, and they live in Madison, New Jersey, with their cat, Peter Tchaikovsky. Their daughter Grace, who also sang in Harmonium, served as her pandemic cantor and now enjoys teaching songs to her pre-school students in Philadelphia. Anne’s older daughter, Virginia, is a graduate of St. Olaf and its famed choir; she too sang in both Harmonium and Grace Church programs and is now a music therapist and singer-songwriter, also in Philadelphia.

Our Board of Directors

  • Robert Emmerich

    PRESIDENT

  • Krystiana Machtinger

    VICE PRESIDENT

  • Max Calbick

    TREASURER

  • Jackie Ross

    SECRETARY

  • Crary Brooks

  • Bob Burke

  • Val Davia

  • Rowena Duran

  • Mary Leland

  • Jackie Lauria

  • Fran Morton

Our Executive Director

Jody Marcus

Executive Director Jody Marcus brings to Harmonium almost 25 years of non-profit management experience. She has worked at the Morris County Tourism Bureau as Assistant Director, the Raritan Headwaters Association as Director of Development, and the Morris Museum as Curator. Jody was a founding member and executive director of the Community Children’s Museum in Dover and is a board member of Children on the Green and the Morris Educational Foundation. She has a master’s in industrial design from Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Massachusetts.