Greg White is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mathematics at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU), where he has served as Department Chair, Director of Institutional Research, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Associate Provost, and Interim Provost. His major responsibilities include accreditation, assessment, and program review. Greg grew up in Berkeley, CA, where he studied horn with Earl Saxton. He earned his BA in Physics and Math at the University of Rochester, where he studied horn with Milan Yancich of the Eastman School of Music. Greg received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA and served as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Occidental College.

Greg has played horn in Redwood Symphony since 2000. Previously he played with the Kensington Symphony where he performed solo works including Dukas’ Villanelle and Britten’ Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Other groups that he has performed with include the Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra, Diablo Light Opera, Berkeley Opera, Prometheus Symphony Orchestra, Caltech-Occidental Symphony Orchestra, UCLA Symphony, and the University of Rochester Symphony.

Greg joined the Redwood Symphony Board of Directors in August 2014. He has served on the California Mathematics Project Advisory Board from 2001 to the present and has been chair since 2005. Previous board experience includes the ASUCLA Board of Directors 1986-88 and the Kensington Symphony Board of Directors 1991–95. He brings considerable expertise on grants, having written successful foundation and federal grant proposals totaling over $8 million to support programs at NDNU.

Greg lives in San Carlos with his wife, Lisa Pokorny, and up to two children, depending on who is currently in/at college.

Romain Kang originally hails from Richmond, Virginia. As a youth, he studied violin with performance practice historian Frederick Neumann and choral music with Hope Armstrong Erb and Raymond F. Glover. During summers, he rubbed elbows with future music luminaries at the Eastern Music Festival and the Meadowmount School of Music. At Princeton University, he worked on digital music composition tools with Paul Lansky. He joined the Redwood Symphony in 2006, attracted by its challenging repertoire.

As a board member since 2017, Romain serves as technology liaison, a reflection his ongoing career in Silicon Valley network and data storage companies. Beyond work and Redwood Symphony, Romain serves as a choral musician, liturgical liaison, and delegate in the Episcopal Diocese of California, and produces a weekly classical music broadcast on Stanford University's KZSU 90.1 FM. He enjoys spending time outdoors, photographing the natural wonders of the Bay Area.

David Meckler is a Professor of Music at Cañada College in Redwood City, and has also taught music, arts and humanities courses at Skyline College in San Bruno, the University of California at San Diego and University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In addition to teaching, David has composed many significant works. His recent music often features simple, sometimes fragmented, polyrhythms, often in the context of unusual meters; the pitch language is sometimes freely diatonic but rarely with traditional harmonic functionality. Scenes from his Apollo 14, A Space Opera were presented by the New York Opera in 2002.

David studied music composition at the University of California at San Diego (Ph.D.) and at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (MM). His teachers include Rand Steiger, Roger Reynolds, Frederick Bianchi, Jonathan Kramer and Allen Sapp. David is also interested in science (B.S., Physics, Lafayette College) and in the social dimensions inherent in music.

Born in El Paso, Texas, David and his wife MaryLouise currently live in Redwood City, California.

Chris Moropoulos joined the Redwood Symphony board in 2011. He began attending Redwood orchestra concerts with his children, and they quickly joined the symphony's volunteer ranks. Chris brings broad experience serving non-profit boards and volunteer organizations. Having never played with the orchestra, Chris' perspective skews towards that of Redwood's audience. In addition to strategic guidance, his focus on the Redwood Symphony Board tends toward its outreach to youth and families, its technical and marketing efforts, and excellence in the business side of the symphony.

Chris hails from Southern California, earning a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara. Following a tenure developing undersea acoustic systems and aerospace technologies, he attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. His legal practice has included advising public agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses and technology ventures, and entrepreneurs, serving as both transactional and trial counsel, and an intellectual property licensing expert and registered patent attorney. His roles include in-house managing attorney, general counsel, and executive for a wide range of clients, from tiny start-ups to pre-eminent semiconductor giants across Silicon Valley.

Chris always welcomes questions, comments, or suggestions for thought from the communities the orchestra serves. You can catch him in the lobby at most concerts, or by email at comments@redwoodsymphony.org.

Composer/performer Stephen Ruppenthal is Co-Principal Trumpet, Contemporary Music Advisor, and former Board President for the Redwood Symphony. A trumpet student of Dwight Cannon and Chris Bogios formerly with the San Francisco Symphony, Stephen graduated with a Performance Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in Contemporary Musicology from San Jose State University, and participated in the Executive Technical Management Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Stephen performs with many major ensembles throughout the Bay Area, and currently with his own Brass Act Quintet (www.brassact.com). He was featured at the 2008 Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Chicago, the SEAMUS 2009 Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Sweetwater Sound in Indiana, and at the ICMC in New York City, and the KISS Symposium in Vienna, Austria in 2010. He is also a founding member of the new electro-acoustic music group, SoundProof.

Stephen has written on text-sound composition and music for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. His work “A History of the Development and Techniques of Sound Poetry in the Twentieth Century in Western Culture” constituted the first comprehensive documentation of the genre in English.

In addition to performance and composition, Stephen has taught at San Jose State University and San Francisco State University (Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art, Electronic Music Studio/Composition), and for many years was Technical Publications Senior Director for Fortune 500 companies such as Oracle, Sybase, BEA, and Adobe Systems.

John Steinberg studied trumpet, composition and arranging at the Berklee College of Music and computer music and more trumpet at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he performed with the Oberlin Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Opera, Jazz Band, Collegium Musicum and other ensembles. While at Oberlin, he was a DJ for WOBC-FM. He is also a graduate of Stanford Law School.

John is currently CEO of Taction Technology, and was the founding CEO of EcoFactor. He previously served as Director of Corporate Business Development at Electronics for Imaging. He has also taught the capstone Venture Studio course in the Design MBA program at the California College of the Arts. He has been issued 50 US patents.

John previously served on the boards of the Long Beach Youth Center and Involved Professionals Against Cancer.