Staff & Board of Salt Bay Chamberfest
Wilhelmina Smith, Founder, Artistic & Executive Director
Miriam Fogel, General Manager
Board of Directors
Diana Morris, President
Robert Sweet, Vice President
Robert Nelson, Treasurer
David Wolfsohn, Secretary
Stuart Eisenberg
Traci Sumner
Staff
Wilhelmina Smith, Founder, Artistic & Executive Director
Miriam Fogel, General Manager
Miriam Fogel joined Salt Bay Chamberfest as General Manager in 2017. In addition to her role at SBC, she is also Director of Artistic Operations of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. She has extensive experience working with music festivals, including Aspen Music Festival (CO), Spoleto Festival dei 2 mondi (Umbria, Italy), Stresa Festival (Lombardy, Italy), Brevard Music Center (NC), and the Mostly Mozart Festival (NY), as well as Salt Bay Chamberfest for two prior summers (in 2012 and 2016). In addition to festivals, she focuses on orchestra management, and worked for the New World Symphony (Miami, FL), Richmond Symphony (VA) (where she was also Project Director of the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021), The Knights (Brooklyn, NY), and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Milan, Italy). Miriam grew up in New York City and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in music.
Board of Directors
Diana Morris, President
Baltimore, MD & Orr’s Island, ME
In early 2022, Diana joined the Onion Foundation, a private family foundation focused on the arts and the environment in Maine, as its inaugural executive director. A longtime social justice advocate, Diana was drawn to the Onion Foundation because of the values that inform its programs and guide its efforts to build a more equitable and healthier Maine: equity, learning and creativity, inclusion and diversity, and accessibility and transparency. Previously, Diana founded and directed the Baltimore/Maryland office of the Open Society Foundations, served as the first executive director of the Blaustein Philanthropic Group, and was a program officer for refugee and migrant rights and for human rights and social justice at the Ford Foundation, working nationally and internationally. Diana began her career as a Legal Adviser in the Department of State. She has an A.B. from Smith College and a J.D. from Boston University and undertook graduate studies in cultural anthropology at Princeton University. Diana serves on the board of Healthcare for the Homeless in Maryland and has assisted philanthropies and nonprofit organizations in strategic planning and executive searches. Diana and her husband have two grown girls, and all love to rendezvous on Orr’s Island for kayaking, hiking, and ambitious cooking.
Robert Sweet, Vice President
Newton, MA & South Bristol, ME
Robert (Skip) Sweet grew up in New York City. After attending schools in Manhattan and Connecticut, he graduated from Harvard College in 1968. After working as an auto mechanic, photographer, bartender, and carpenter, Robert attended Northeastern Law School, clerked for Justice Herbert Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, where he practiced corporate law for 37 years. He also had a brief career as a restaurateur in Boston. Robert serves as a director at the Boston Medical Center, Bridge Boston Charter School, YouthConnect (a program of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston), The Sheffield Chamber Players, and Kisoro Children’s Foundation. He has an irrational fondness for vintage British automobiles, steep powder, and messing about in boats. Robert and his wife Karen live in Newton, Massachusetts and South Bristol, Maine. His two grown children and one grandchild also reside in Massachusetts.
David Wolfsohn, Secretary
Philadelphia, PA & Nobleboro, ME
David Wolfsohn is a pianist and chamber musician who received his doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Constance Keene and Raymond Lewenthal. After music school, he took a slight detour into the world of intellectual property law, which he now practices at the Philadelphia law firm of Duane Morris. He and his wife Alexandra Gignoux (a painter) split their time between Philadelphia and Nobleboro.
Stuart Eisenberg
Nobleboro, ME
Stuart Eisenberg is a lifelong music fan and retired physician living with his wife Deborah on Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro. Originally from Long Island, New York, he trained in Philadelphia where he met his wife and remained in the Delaware Valley until moving to Cape Elizabeth, Maine in 2004. They raised their son and daughter there ultimately deciding to build a home in the Damariscotta area where his wife is the OB/GYN at Miles Memorial Hospital. He was delighted to discover the Salt Bay Chamberfest in 2018 when they began living in the area part time. As an enthusiastic fan of all types of music, but especially small ensemble modern classical and jazz, he looks forward to supporting the high quality of SBC’s programming and performances.
Robert Nelson, Treasurer
Newcastle, ME
Traci Sumner
Clinton, NJ and Orrs Island, ME
Traci Sumner retired from residential architecture, designing new homes and renovations. She has also served in numerous organizations and currently is in her seventh year on the Executive Board of the Hunterdon Health Auxiliary in Flemington, New Jersey.
Curiosity and a love of beauty in all its forms motivate Traci in her professional, artistic, and altruistic pursuits. Having recently discovered SBC and genuinely enjoyed its programming, Traci is excited to help bring its rich musical experiences to Midcoast Maine.
She is a wife and mother of two adult daughters, in whom she and her husband Phil tried to instill a responsibility, in ways large or small, to leave our corner of the world better than we found it. She enjoys travel, nature, and the outdoors, painting and photography, as well as, obviously, exploring music. Traci resides in Clinton, New Jersey and Orrs Island, Maine.