Maia Jasper White, Executive Director, Co-Founder, and Co-Artistic Director
You can read more about Maia here, on the page she shares with her Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director, and brother-from-another-mother, Kevin Kumar.
Maia has served as Salastina’s Executive Director since the organization received 501(c)3 status in February 2020.
Marissa Winship, Executive Producer & Growth Manager
Marissa knows how to keep a musical organization not only ticking happily along, but also constantly upping its game.
Her superpower is one of perspective: she can take a birds-eye-view while simultaneously getting granular. We love her for her self-startership, thoroughness, attention to detail, and people skills.
She draws on a wealth of experience in both musical performance and arts administration.
She joins us after stints as music librarian at the Portland Opera and Operations Manager for the Northwest Sinfonietta in Tacoma, WA. Marissa is a graduate of Rice University, and spent a year studying contemporary viola and viola d’amore in Paris.
Audrey Knight, Communications Manager
Audrey is behind anything that makes Salastina look good.
She manages our social media channels, generates a ton of graphics, makes our program books, and so much more.
Unsurprisingly, she is an artist by trade. She has worked as an animator and small business owner.
She’s also been an illustrator, a chicken farmer, a soaper, and an English teacher.
Audrey’s eldest daughter, violist D’aci Knight, is a former Sounds Promising Young Artist.
Adan Alonso, Virtual Production Manager
Internally, we like to call Adan “Salastina’s Swiss Army Knife.”
He’s behind the camera and computers for all of our livestreams.
Though his work is about as behind-the-scenes as it gets, we appreciate his keen attention to all the aspects of how Salastina operates. He always has thoughtful observations to share about the concert experience. And he’s constantly thinking of cost-effective ways to improve the quality of his work.
This likely comes from his musical experience as a freelance bass guitarist. He especially loves playing and dancing to Cuban music.
Fun fact: he’s learning Sanskrit.
Wyatt Wireman, Vital Sounds Coordinator and Operations Assistant
Scheduling Vital Sounds concerts three days a week is no joke. Worse still: finding common rehearsal times for Salastina’s busy Resident Artists.
Enter Wyatt, who ensures everyone knows where they need to be, and when. At only 26, he’s precociously aware of the fact that an arts organization is a business. That’s saying a lot: not only for someone his age, but also because he’s a bass player himself.
Wyatt completed his masters degree in 2020 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to his work with Salastina, Wyatt also does work with the International Society of Bassists, helping to run their biennial convention as well as regular educational programs they offer online.
Celina Anna Kintscher, Executive Assistant and Box Office Manager
Celina is 2022/2023 Sounds Promising Young Composer. A German-Austrian composer, she studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music with Ian Krouse. She has also studied with Richard Danielpour, Anthony Constantino and Jörg Widmann (one of 2018’s most performed contemporary composers). Along with many other awards, Ms. Kintscher is a 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist and received the Division Winner of the World Award at the World Championships of Performing Arts in 2015 representing South Africa. Kintscher's compositional style is shaped by her time living in Europe, Africa and America: she combines the African drive and rhythm, classical European harmonic and textural languages, with the bravery to explore and express which the American contemporary music world allows.