| Leslie Hyde
Executive Director
  Leslie Hyde is a co-founder of the Amalfi Coast Music &
Arts Festival and the Center of Musical Studies (CMS)
of Washington. As Executive Director of these organizations, she shares primary
responsibility for planning and organizational development. Ms. Hyde is in charge
of daily operations and logistics for festival participants. She also heads up
the areas of marketing and publicity, manages the festival staff in Italy, and
acts as a liaison with sponsoring organizations on the Amalfi Coast. As the originator
of the visual arts program, Ms. Hyde oversees curriculum development and coordinates
all festival faculty. She also plans and develops activities for festival guests
and oversees the excursions and classes that are offered to musicians and guests.
In Washington, Ms. Hyde manages the academic program of the Center of Musical
Studies and is a coordinator of the annual event, Ravello in America,
produced in conjunction with CMS and the international Ravello Music Festival. Ms.
Hyde brings a wealth of experience in working overseas to her role in the festival.
She lived and worked in Rome for seven years where she served as the program director
of Artis International, a non-profit organization that produced international
art exhibits and other cultural events. Prior to that she was a partner in a small
company in Rome that planned international conferences and provided translation
services for meetings and academic journals. Ms. Hyde speaks fluent French and
Italian. She has spent summers working in the area of the Amalfi Coast for more
than a decade, and has also lived and worked in Paris.
Ms. Hyde worked
for many years as a free-lance writer and editor as well as a literary translator,
in Washington, D.C., Boston, and the Denver area. She worked as a publications
consultant for the Center for Applied Linguistics and the National Foreign Language
Center and produced an educational series for the Network of Educators for the
Americas. Before moving to Italy, Ms. Hyde also worked in Boston, Massachusetts,
where she served as an editor for Alpha-Bête, a literary magazine based in Cambridge,
Mass., and was a member of the Scimitar Players, a theater group that
produced plays in foreign languages (she starred in Goldoni's I Due Gemelli
Veneziani and Ionesco's La Leçon.). Ms. Hyde has been active for many
years in various women’s organizations and has worked in many political
campaigns. A native of the Washington area, she is an alumna of the Potomac and
Madeira schools and holds a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from the
University of Colorado and a diplôme en lettres from the Université
de Parix X. Ms. Hyde is an officer on the board of Italian Muse,
a Washington-based arts organization founded to promote Italian culture. She also
serves as co-chair of the board for the D.C. Children’s Chorus and is involved
in developing a community opera program in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Administration
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