People
Trustees
- The Trustees of the trust which established the Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund are:
- Myron Sildon, a retired business and estate planning attorney in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Sildon is proud to have counted Martha Lee Cain Tranby among his many clients. He has been involved as a board member, volunteer and financial supporter of many arts organizations in the Kansas City, Missouri area.
- Don Dagenais, retired real estate lawyer from Lathrop GPM, LLP. Mr. Dagenais has served on many nonprofit boards of directors and is known as a volunteer for many local music organizations, as well as for presenting lectures and teaching courses in classical music, opera and the performing arts.
- Elizabeth Suh Lane, a professional violinist and the founder and artistic director of the Bach Aria Soloists, one of Kansas City's leading small performing artist organizations. She previously served for six years on the Selection Committee of the Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund.
Selection Committee
- The members of the Selection Committee which advises the Trustees on the selection of grant recipients for the Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund are:
- Trilla Ray Carter, cellist and the founder and artistic director of Kansas City Baroque Consortium, an outstanding classical music performing group in the Kansas City area.
- Roberta Gumbel, an opera singer and opera librettist who is a Professor at the University of Kansas School of Music. She has performed with regional operas companies and in four different shows on Broadway, as well as with jazz groups.
- Jan Kraybill, a professional organist who is the conservator of the Julia Irene Dennie-Kauffman Casavant organ at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts , organist-in-residence at the international headquarters of Community of Christ in Independence, and organist at Village on Antioch Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kansas.
- Marcus Lewis, assistant professor of jazz studies for the Conservatory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and a fine professional jazz trombonist. He leads his own jazz quintet, 18-piece Big Band.
- Clark Morris, the Executive and Artistic Director of the Harriman Jewell Series, the renown performing arts series located in Liberty, Missouri and Kansas City. He has worked with the Harriman Jewell Series for over 30 years.
- Lisa Shepard, a supporter of the music and arts in Kansas City who was a onetime colleague of our founder, Martha Lee Cain Tranby, in the Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) international music fraternity and with the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She is the President of the Kansas City Music Foundation.