Nancy Goldstein Art has been important to me since I was a child: as a visual artist, designer, chef, musician and singer. I have served as President of the Board of the Northampton Center for the Arts, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the University Museum of Contemporary Art and now happily on the Jazz Shares Board.

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Motoko Inoue had managed various aspects of the Eric Carle enterprise for over 30 years, now retired from her last position as his Creative Director. An inaugural member of Jazz Shares, she is a longtime supporter of arts in the area. 

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Rebecca Neimark is a book designer and a former development professional who has lived in Northampton since 1992. She was a member of the Northampton Survival Center Board of Directors for eight years, serving as Development Chair, Vice President, and President. She served on the River Valley Co-op Outreach Committee for a decade and helped found Congregation B’nai Israel’s Darfur Action Group. She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Abundance Farm. She is proud to support Jazz Share’s pioneering model to bring innovative performances to our community.

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Marta Ostapiuk is a career arts professional. Having been one of the founding members of MIFA, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, she went on to make her professional home at Hartford Stage Company & The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts before transitioning to development consultancy in 2021. A lifelong music lover, she is proud to support the exciting sonic journeys & innovative membership model of JazzShares.

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Priscilla María Page is a writer, performer, dramaturg, and faculty member in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also directs the Multicultural Theater Certificate. Her research includes Latina/o/x Theater and Contemporary Native American Performance. She is currently writing about Latina/o/x theater history in Chicago.  She is a member of the Latinx Theater Commons, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, and the Association of Theater in Higher Education. 

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Jason Robinson A long-time resident of Hampshire and Franklin counties in western Massachusetts, Jason Robinson is an accomplished saxophonist, flutist, composer, and scholar who has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.  He has appeared on over 50 albums, including 18 as leader or co-leader.  Robinson joined the faculty at Amherst College in 2008, where he is currently Associate Professor of Music and affiliated faculty in Black Studies and Film and Media Studies.

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Kathy Service is a nurse practitioner whose clinical skills have been greatly enhanced by the arts.  She routinely volunteers for a number of arts organizations and events in and around Northampton and is honoured to be on the inaugural Board of the Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares. She particularly loves welcoming and checking members into each show.

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Glenn Siegel has produced hundreds of concerts throughout western Massachusetts. He founded the Magic Triangle Jazz Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1990, which he directed until 2020, and for 12 years, he produced A World of Piano for the Northampton Center for the Arts. He served as Manager of WMUA-FM at UMass for 28 years, where he hosted Jazz in Silhouette, and was designated a Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2019. He co-founded Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares in 2012 and serves as President.

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Batya Sobel is an oboist and composer-improviser based in Western Massachusetts.  With a focus on experimental new music and sound, Sobel views her art as an offering of honesty and vulnerability. At Hampshire College, she studied with Dr. Yusef Lateef, who became a life-changing mentor. Batya is a lay homeopath, a marketing consultant for print music publishers, and a caretaker of older horses. As Brother Yusef said, ‘remember to express the beauty.’

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