Mimi S. Daitz, Music Director Mimi Daitz has been Music Director of the RCS since September 1997. She was a faculty member of the Music Department at the City College, CUNY for many years. At the college she conducted both its Chorus and Vocal Ensemble, leading them in standard works and rarities of the choral repertoire. Professor Daitz has also been active as a musicologist. Her areas of research and publication have been turn-of-the-century French vocal music and, more recently, Estonian choral music. She is currently writing a biography of Veljo Tormis, an Estonian composer whose choral works helped inspire Estonia's independence movement.

John Lettieri, Accompanist Accompanist John Lettieri performs extensively throughout the New York metropolitan area as a pianist, organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. Besides serving as accompanist for the Riverdale Choral Society, he is the organist and music director for Christ Church in Pelham Manor and Temple Emmanuel in Great Neck. He also performs regularly on the organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Riverdale, John Lettieri is an adjunct professor at the College of Mount St. Vincent, where he teaches music. He is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music.