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Class Notes

2000
Dr. Alexi Nazem, Assistant Professor at Weill

Photograph from billboard.com

Cornell Medicine, co-founded Nomad Health,
an online marketplace connecting doctors
with freelance clinical work (www.nomadhealth.com). Joseph Fischel, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at Yale University, published Sex and
Harm in the Age of Consent in May 2016. (see
Bookshelf, p. 35)
Eliah Seton was
selected for the 2016
Billboard "40 Under
40" list, announced
in an Oct. 20, 2016
article titled "Music's
Top Young Power
Players Revealed." The article continued:

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2001

Peter Cincotti
released the EP "Exit
105" (available at:
https://itunes.apple.
com/us/album/
exit-105-ep/
id1123315451) in June
2016. The EP features five new songs from
Peter's album "Long Way From Home" to be
released in 2017. Cincotti noted that this album,
his fifth, is "the first album I wrote, arranged
and produced and it took three years! I
explored so many different aspects of writing
and music production all with a focus on
bringing the piano back into the landscape of
modern music." Cincotti partnered with
Pledge Music to develop "this album and give
private access directly to fans interested in the
album-making process." The Long Way From
Home Experience site (http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/petercincotti). Peter's
poby.net

that provides social and emotional education
to children in under-resourced communities
throughout New York City. Benjamin, who previously spent almost seven years as a litigation
associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
LLP, is a staff attorney practicing appellate
criminal-defense law at Appellate Advocates,
a nonprofit organization in Manhattan, and
president of the board of directors of Con Vivo
Music, a nonprofit chamber-music organization based in Jersey City, N.J. The couple met
when Elizabeth entered HM in seventh grade.
They "dated" in eighth grade, and though
the relationship lasted only 10 days, they
remained friends and became involved with
Lions baseball, with Benjamin as catcher and,
in his senior year, team captain, and Elizabeth
as team manager. The alums reconnected
in 2013, as this article about their wedding
in The New York Times details: http://www.
nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/weddings/
elizabeth-michelis-and-benjamin-litmanmarried.html?_r=0. Guests at the wedding
at Wave Hill in the Bronx, directly across the
Henry Hudson Parkway from HM-included
Sacha Litman '91, Alison Zitron, Danelle King,
Sean Diskin, Arielle (Korwin) Diskin '01, and
Dr. Katherine Michelis '04.

"From Drake to Sia to Shawn Mendes, today's
superstars wouldn't be topping charts, filling
arenas and disrupting the music business
without the vision and hustle of these
pioneering young executives." Eliah Seton is
President of Alternative Distribution Alliance
Worldwide (ADA). Wrote Billboard: "Warner
Music Group's turnaround artist ... Since his
appointment 18 months ago, Seton has
reversed the dwindling market share of
Warner Music Group's indie-label distribution
arm." Seton, who returned to the HM campus
in spring 2016 as one of the 'celebrity judges'
for HM's annual Acappellooza Concert, said of
the honor, "They say if you love what you do,
you never work a day in your life. I get to
spend my days surrounded by music, people
who make music and people who love music.
To be acknowledged by Billboard alongside so
many inspiring and talented people is icing on
the cake." http://www.horacemann.org/cf_
news/view.cfm?newsid=949 and http://www.
billboard.com/articles/business/7548901/40under-40-music-industry-power-players2016-full-list
Brian Charles was married to Lindsey
Ridell on November 19, 2016 at the Essex
House in New York City. Brian founded baseball
agency Big League Management Company,
LLC, 10 years ago and currently represents approximately 30 professional baseball players.
He recently was the first player-agent to win a
salary arbitration case against the Baltimore
Orioles in 22 years.

Mark Caputo

"Palermo" music video is airing on MTV Italia.
Peter and his sister Pia Cincotti '98 (see 1998
Class Note) are writing a new musical based
on a German silent film. Find Peter here:
instagram.com/petercincotti, facebook.com/
petercincotti, twitter.com/petercincotti.

Anita La Scala, together with design
partner Rob Bissinger, have launched ARDA
Studio (http://www.ardastudio.com) which
specializes in creative concepts and production design for live entertainment, sporting
ceremonies, corporate events, television and
film. The partners are both alumni of SUNY
Purchase Design & Technology Conservatory
and have worked together for over 10 years.
With an ever-evolving team of highly-skilled
hand and digital artists, they work on projects
ranging from world broadcast spectacles to
off-Broadway shows. ARDA's design for the
2015 Pan American Games Closing Ceremony
in Toronto hosted a colorful celebration of
athletic achievement and cultural diversity
and set the stage for the talents of Serena
Ryder, Pitbull and Kanye West. Anita and Rob
contributed their expertise to the Emmy nominated creative team of the 2015 Baku Opening
Ceremony and also led the production design
team of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Opening
Ceremony, earning an Emmy nomination for
Art Direction. The partners share their knowledge and experience and support the arts in
education. Having lectured at MIT's School
of Architecture, Anita also mentors students
from HM, the Bergen County Academies,
Ridgewood High School, SUNY Purchase and
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Jennifer Carter Fleiss, Andrew Fleiss '96,
sister Daniella and brother Jake welcomed

http://www.instagram.com/petercincotti http://www.facebook.com/petercincotti http://www.twitter.com/petercincotti http://www.facebook.com/petercincotti http://www.horacemann.org/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=949 http://www.horacemann.org/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=949 http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7548901/40-under-40-music-industry-power-players-2016-full-list http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7548901/40-under-40-music-industry-power-players-2016-full-list http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7548901/40-under-40-music-industry-power-players-2016-full-list http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7548901/40-under-40-music-industry-power-players-2016-full-list http://www.ardastudio.com http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-michelis-and-benjamin-litman-married.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-michelis-and-benjamin-litman-married.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-michelis-and-benjamin-litman-married.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-michelis-and-benjamin-litman-married.html?_r=0 https://itunes.apple.com http://www.poby.net http://www.nomadhealth.com http://www.nomadhealth.com http://www.billboard.com http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/petercincotti http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects

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