• Mission Statement
• Board Members
  • Martin N. Bandier
  • Caroline Bienstock
  • Helene Blue
  • Lionel Conway
  • Bob Doyle
  • John Eastman
  • Roger Faxon
  • Neil Gillis
  • Dave Johnson
  • Dean Kay
  • Leeds Levy
  • Evan Medow
  • Ralph Peer II
  • Matt Pincus
  • Peter Primont
  • David Renzer
  • Irwin Z. Robinson
  • John Rudolph
• President's Corner
• Gold & Platinum Awards
• HFA

Maxyne Lang

Maxyne B. Lang is President of Williamson Music and Williamson Music International, which are respectively the U.S. and global publishing divisions of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.

Lang began her music publishing career at the legendary Chappell/Intersong Music Group. During her 11-year tenure at Chappell/Intersong, she rose through the ranks to become Vice President of Special Products and Standards, and represented a broad spectrum of music, including the catalogs of Rod Stewart, the Bee Gees, Leiber and Stoller, Pomus and Shuman, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. When Chappell/Intersong was sold to Warner Bros., Lang remained as Vice President until she left in 1988 to become President of Williamson Music.

Williamson Music was founded in 1944 by the legendary duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and represents their catalogues as well as those of Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and T. S. Eliot, among others. Equally committed to contemporary talent, their roster also includes: John Bucchino, Ann Hampton Callaway, Joe DiPietro, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Sheldon Harnick, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, Jimmy Roberts, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel. Recent signings include Henry Krieger, and Charles Strouse.

Under Lang’s leadership, Williamson remains committed to writers of today while celebrating standards by giants of the past. Williamson's current and diverse successes includes THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, featuring a score by 2005 Tony Award winner Adam Guettel; AVENUE Q, featuring a score by 2004 Tony Award winners Lopez & Marx; ALTAR BOYZ, featuring a score by Adler & Walker; and the long-running Off-Broadway phenomenon, I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, featuring a score by DiPietro & Roberts.

Artists from across the music spectrum continue to celebrate the Williamson Music catalogues, ranging from OutKast to Twisted Sister. Following her tribute to Harnick’s "If I Were a Rich Man" with the hit single "Rich Girl" in 2005, pop icon Gwen Stefani had a Billboard top-10 hit in late 2006 called "Wind It Up", which sampled Rodgers and Hammerstein’s yodeling classic, "The Lonely Goatherd".

A dynamic industry leader, Lang was elected to the NMPA Board of Directors in 1994, and became a member of the board of the Harry Fox Agency in 2001. She is also a member of the NMPA Finance and Legislative Committees, and she is currently the Chairman of the Communication and Public Relations Committee. She is serving her fifth term as a member of the ASCAP Board of Review. In addition, Lang served for four years on the Steering Committee of the New York Chapter of NMPA’s Music Publishers Forum and for three terms on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP). In 1998, Lang became a member of the board of the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. In recognition of her dedication to the AIMP and success as an independent music publisher, Lang was honored with the organization's 1999 Indie Award. In 2003, she received the Touchstone Women in Music Award.

Lang is married and has two children.