[AMS-announce] JOB: Dean, Hartt School, University of Hartford

[Announcements for the AMS]

Dean
The Hartt School
University of Hartford 

The University of Hartford invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of The Hartt School. 

An internationally acclaimed conservatory with innovative programs in music, dance, and theatre, The Hartt School opened in 1920 and became one of the three founding institutions of the University of Hartford in 1957. Home to the Miami String Quartet and the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, The Hartt School stresses excellence in the performing arts. Alongside traditional performance-oriented majors in music performance, jazz, music theatre, theatre (actor training), and dance, programs that stress the academic side of the arts are also available. Studies in music history, music theory, music education and composition form a well-rounded school creating not only talented performers, but well-educated musicians. In addition to the more traditional majors, Hartt also offers innovative programs in music management, performing arts management, music production and technology, and a signature interdisciplinary program combining acoustical engineering and music. The School serves a
  sele
ctive and talented student body of 600 undergraduates and 110 graduate students.

Hartt’s professional character is reflected in the richness of performance opportunities afforded its students. Membership in all performing groups is by audition.  The Hartt School presents more than 400 performances a year ranging from individual student recitals to major performances by Hartt choruses, jazz ensembles, wind ensembles, and orchestra; fully staged plays, operas, and musicals, dance performances; and concerts by the Miami String Quartet, Hartt’s quartet-in-residence, the Lions Gate Trio, Hartt’s resident trio, and Full Force Dance Theatre, Hartt’s professional dance company in residence.

Hartt maintains a strong presence in the Greater Hartford community. Annually, the Hartt Community Division provides nearly 3,000 Hartford-area residents of all ages preparatory and adult education programs in music, theatre, and dance. This fall the Handel Performing Arts Center, a 55,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for collegiate and Community Division students at The Hartt School, will open in Hartford at a gateway location serving the city and neighboring communities.  It houses five dance studios, four theater rehearsal studios, and two black box theaters, as well as faculty offices and community space. 

As the chief executive of The Hartt School, reporting to the Provost, the Dean leads the faculty, oversees the school’s administration, and spearheads the School’s fundraising and outreach efforts. The University seeks a dynamic and visionary leader with a distinguished artistic and/or scholarly record and significant achievement in a major artistic or educational setting.  Candidates should possess a strong and successful history of senior leadership and managerial experience, aptitude and enthusiasm for major fund raising, a deep understanding of the comprehensive professional performing arts school in the context of a university setting, and a well-developed perspective about major issues facing the education and training of educators, professional musicians, composers and theorists, dancers, and actors in the 21st century.

For more information please visit http://harttweb.hartford.edu/ 

The University has retained the services of Auerbach Associates to assist in this search.  Nominations and letters of application, including curriculum vitaeand the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references should be forwarded to: 

Search Committee, Dean, The Hartt School
Ms. Kit J. Nichols
Auerbach Associates, Inc.
385 Concord Avenue, Suite 103
Belmont, MA 02478
Phone:  (617) 451-0095
Email: sara at auerbach-assc.com
Electronic submissions preferred.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national and ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or any other protected class.  EEO/AA/M/F/D/V. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.