Our Small-But-Mighty Team
Maia Jasper White
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 2020.
Executive Director
Marissa Winship
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, and effort to predict problems before they happen in order to find preemptive solutions.
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.
Executive Producer
Audrey is behind anything that makes Salastina look good.
She manages our social media channels, generates a ton of graphics, makes our program books, puts our e-newsletters together, 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.
Communications ManagerAudrey Knight
Jazmine is a truly lovely person who combines warmth, intelligence, approachability, and sophistication beautifully. She is direct, quick-witted, sensitive, and articulate.
Jazmine spent three years working for Google Analytics before exploring this pivot to arts administration. She plays the violin and majored in Music Industry in college. She is also the Co-Founder & Executive Director for Off-Key Orchestra — a no-audition, non-performing orchestra for musicians of all skill levels!
Audience and Patron ManagerJazmine Rampas
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 not only his own work, but Salastina’s work as a whole.
This likely comes from his musical experience as a freelance bass guitarist. Bassists provide foundation by nature, moving things along from the ground up.
Adan especially loves playing and dancing to Cuban music. Fun fact: he’s learning Sanskrit.
Virtual Production ManagerAdan Alonso
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. 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.
Vital Sounds Coordinator and Operations Assistant