Music Director and Accompanist

	John Lettieri, Music Director 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.
	Eric Sedgwick, Accompanist
	Mimi S. Daitz, Music Director Emerita Mimi Daitz was Music Director of the RCS from September 1997 to December 2007. 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 has written a biography of Veljo Tormis, an Estonian composer whose choral works helped inspire Estonia's independence movement.