Board of Directors
Founder & Artistic Director
Ham Chan
Classical Pianist, Educator, Recording Artist
Co-Founder
YiQiao Li
Concert Pianist, Chamber Musician, Educator
President, Chair of Board
Bill Townsend
Bill Townsend is a Tenor, Pianist, and Business Development professional currently acting as Capital Keys' President of the Board. He sees the arts as a platform to rally audiences to the needs of the local and national community. Bill performs as a vocal soloist throughout the DMV and works full time as a Growth lead for companies engaged in contract work for the federal government.
Director of Board
Hippocrates Cheng
Composer, theorist, ethnomusicologist.
Assistant Professor of music theory and composition, and an affiliated faculty of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University.
Advisory Committee
Jed Distler
Composer, Pianist, Radio Host, Adjudicator, Educator, and Writer
Larissa Dedova
Professor Emerita of Music at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Peter Goldberg
Founder/Partner of PLG Ventures