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Janet Nepkie is a Distinguished Service Professor of Music and Music Business at the State University
of New York, College at Oneonta. In addition to her work as Principal 'Cellist of the Glimmerglass Opera
Orchestra, she has performed with the Albany, Schenectady, Northeastern Philharmonic, Glens Falls, and
Utica Symphonies, and many other orchestras. She has also worked in New York City recording studios
on commercial albums, movie soundtracks and jingles. Her instructional responsibilities include courses
in music business affairs and copyright law. She has served as Chair of the United University Professions
Technology in Higher Education Committee, Chair of the University Faculty Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Programs and Policies, Chair of the University Faculty Senate Ethics Committee and she
has been a member of the Board of the Copyright Society of the USA. She is a frequent speaker on
issues of academic and commercial intellectual property ownership and exploitation. She earned her
Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. at New York University.