Shriver Hall Concert Series Announces New Board of Directors Appointments

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SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES ANNOUNCES
NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPOINTMENTS

Hakeem Clark & Dr. Ericka Covington Appointed to Board of Directors

www.shriverconcerts.org

Baltimore, MD (March 8, 2023) — Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) — Baltimore’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — is pleased to announce the appointments of Hakeem Clark and Dr. Ericka Covington to its Board of Directors.

Hakeem Clark has 18 years of experience in the fields of health and wellness, and operations. He has served at LifeBridge Health in a variety of capacities for the past thirteen years. Currently he’s the Executive Director of LifeBridge Health & Fitness, named one of the Top 100 Fitness Centers in the U.S. by IDEA magazine, and Director of Corporate Retail Services for the entire health system. In this work, he’s applied his passion for building and growing businesses with over 7 million dollars in total revenue through the development of LifeBridge Sports Medicine and employee wellness for all 14,000 employees. He is also the founding Chair of LifeBridge Health’s 120-person award-winning Diversity & Inclusion Council. Prior to this, Hakeem had positions in Sales and Marketing along with developing a Sports Performance Franchise business. In addition to being a member of the Shriver Hall Concert Series Board of Directors, Hakeem is a Strategic Advisor for Athlete Haven which provides mental health services for young athletes. An alum of the University of Maryland, Hakeem is a violinist who played from the age of 4.

Dr. Ericka Covington currently serves as Interim Dean of The School of Graduate Studies at Coppin State University. She is a dynamic business expert and an accomplished leader with a wealth of expertise in leading national marketing initiatives for a major Fortune 500 company, and has facilitated numerous trainings on strategic management and effective leadership practices to corporate professionals. She is also certified in diversity, equity, and inclusion through Cornell University. Dr. Covington serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Leadership and Management and a reviewer for the Eastern Academy of Management. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated-Baltimore County Alumnae Chapter. She resides in Owings Mills with her husband, and has two sons and two stepdaughters.

Dr. Regina Anderson, Chair of the Board of Directors, shares, “We are delighted to have Ericka Covington and Hakeem Clark as newly appointed members of the SHCS Board of Directors. As Chair, I value their willingness to share their respective talents with us in pursuit of our mission of providing outstanding classical music to the Baltimore community.”

Shriver Hall Concert Series continues its 2022-23 Subscription Series at Shriver Hall with performances by the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Dörken Trio – in their first North American tour since 2019 – on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 5:30pm; pianist Piotr Anderszewski – making a return appearance at Shriver Hall – on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 5:30pm; and Grammy-nominated quintet Imani Winds on Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 5:30pm.

About Shriver Hall Concert Series
For more than 50 years, Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) has been “Baltimore’s finest importer of classical music talent” (The Baltimore Sun) and the area’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists with a mission to craft performances and educational programs at the highest level of excellence. A 5-time recipient of Baltimore Magazine’s distinction “Best Classical Music” in its annual “Best of Baltimore” issue, the coveted subscription series features many of the world’s most renowned soloists and ensembles, presented in The Johns Hopkins University’s Shriver Hall.

Founded in 1966 by Dr. Ernest Bueding, a pharmacologist at The Johns Hopkins University, and a group of similarly dedicated music enthusiasts, SHCS set out to make an important contribution to the vitality of an already vibrant city. When flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal walked onto the stage of Shriver Hall for the first concert, more than 1,100 people witnessed the launch of what is now recognized as a remarkable success story: Shriver Hall Concert Series. In the succeeding years SHCS has presented hundreds of acclaimed and emerging international artists in classical chamber music and recitals and a legacy of important debuts and premieres. In addition, SHCS collaborates with local schools and subsidizes hundreds of student tickets each season.

The list of artists presented by SHCS is remarkable—Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Ewa Podlés, Maurizio Pollini, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jordi Savall, András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, Janos Starker, Daniil Trifonov, Lynn Harrell, Emmanuel Ax, Alban Berg Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, and Quartetto Italiano, among many others. SHCS also has a history of championing important musicians early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Hilary Hahn, Hélène Grimaud, Dawn Upshaw, Lang Lang, and the Emerson String Quartet. Commissioned composers include Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier, Jonathan Leshnoff, James Lee III, Hannah Lash, Caroline Shaw, and Nina C. Young.

Designed specifically for the community, SHCS offers the Discovery Series, a series of free concerts presented in venues throughout the region focused on artists emerging on the national and international scene. Artists featured include Narek Hakhnazaryan, Colin Currie, Xavier Foley, Eric Lu, and the Dover Quartet. SHCS also offers the annual Spring Lecture Series, a series of free talks focused on annual topics related to the intersection of music and society, and a variety of student programs.

For more information, visit www.shriverconcerts.org.

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