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 Geoff Roach
Executive Director
Geoff is a native of New Orleans where he
first became addicted to great music, spicy
foods, good times. Before joining San Jose
Jazz in October 2005, Geoff spent 30 years
as an entrepreneur in the technology industry
in the United States and Europe with management
positions at Cullinet, DEC, Informix, Pure
Software, Mergent Systems and other companies
. In music, Geoff leads and plays woodwinds
in the critically acclaimed octet, Octobop.
Geoff has performed with Mel Torme, Nelson
Riddle, Tom Jones, Bob Hope, as well as
many musicals, shows, and other productions.
His primary influences in playing and writing
include Gerry Mulligan, James Moody, Sam
Butera, Bill Holman, Marty Paich, Nelson
Riddle, and Henry Mancini. Geoff has a BS
from University of Louisiana, an MS from
Clemson University, an MBA from the University
of Missouri, and is a graduate of the Stanford
Business School Executive Program.He is
still trying to create the perfect gumbo.
Membership
 Madelyn Crawford
Membership Manager
Madelyn
Crawford is a proud, involved member of
San Jose Jazz! For over two decades, I have
been privileged to work as an advocate and
activist for arts audiences in Silicon Valley.
Working at Abhinaya Dance Company, San Jose
Museum of Art, the Los Altos History Museum,
and the Arts and Museum Program for the
Town of Los Gatos are experiences I use
at San Jose Jazz everyday. I am a proud
alumna of the Master’s in Art History
Program at San Jose State University. Our
San Jose Jazz members and donors are fun,
well educated, stimulating jazz fans—and
many of them volunteer on projects to expand
our educational and performance services.
I learn from our members all the time. Please
join us!
Marketing
 Lucie Paye-Moissinac
Director of Communications
and Marketing
Before
joining the San Jose Jazz team, Lucie spent
five years as the Communications and Marketing
Director of the International Festival of
Gardens in France—the #1 garden design
competition in the world. Moving to Silicon
Valley, she looked for a cultural organization
that had the spirit of innovation one associates
with this region. She looked for an arts
organization that epitomizes this unique
place and serves the community. She found
these elements with San Jose Jazz—a
lively, wide-ranging arts organization,
a dynamic and entrepreneurial team, and
above all, America ’s extraordinary
gift to world culture: jazz!
Gary Duyanen
Graphic
Designer
Education
 Barbara Christmann
GetJazzed Program Manager
Barbara is a composer, conductor, and orchestrator
with an M.A. in Music Composition from San
Jose State University and a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from University of California-Berkeley.
Her orchestrating/composing work includes
a project to create film source music that
was recorded with Grammy Award winning musicians
and the “Skywalker Orchestra.”
Other composing credits include CD and performance
projects with members of the Seattle Symphony,
San Jose Symphony, Tower of Power, the Carlos
Santana Band, Opera San Jose, and the San
Jose Chamber Orchestra. She has also composed
numerous commercial projects for Fisher
Price and Mattel. She has conducted countless
choral and orchestral works as a freelance
conductor in both live performance and recording
studio settings. She has served as a faculty
member at the School of Music and Dance
at San Jose State University, as well as
staff orchestrator for Opera San Jose.
Festival
 Bruce Labadie
Festival Director
Bruce
Labadie has over 30 years of experience
inPerforming Arts Management and festival
production. He directed all programs at
the Mountain Winery inSaratoga for 18 years,
was performing arts director at Montalvo
for 12 years, has been director of many
festivals in San Jose, including Brew Ha
Ha, the San Jose America Festival and has
been a founder and the Festival Director
of the Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival since
1980.
Operations
Vera Gert
Accounting
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