cultural projects, planning + engagement
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Projects

Event planning and production of Heather McDougall. Including pre-concert talks, live event / concert / broadcast production.

Also public speaking engagements of Heather McDougall. Including presentations at industry conferences, meetings and participation in panel discussions.

 
Breaking Glass team presenting Podcasting at the Intersection of Opera, Race & Social Justice - League of American Orchestras Conference, Chicago 2018.

Breaking Glass team presenting Podcasting at the Intersection of Opera, Race & Social Justice - League of American Orchestras Conference, Chicago 2018.

Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing podcast poster, WFMT Chicago

Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing podcast poster, WFMT Chicago

Euroradio Jazz Competition Jury at Jazz at Marciac Festival 2018 Credit: Laurent

Euroradio Jazz Competition Jury at Jazz at Marciac Festival 2018

 

key projects

Project manager for West Cork Music’s capital project, a new purpose-built concert hall and education centre for the arts in Bantry, Co. Cork.

Managing producer for Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing podcast (NEH-funded oral history podcast in collaboration with the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, covered in the New York Times), Giving Thanks to Music with Nadia Sirota radio special, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra-On Stage radio series, Shanghai Spring series and Taloa documentary series (MacArthur Foundation-funded co-production with Radio New Zealand)

Project Manager, West Cork Music Archive (led design and development of the archive, making publicly accessible and ensuring the preservation of the 16+ year recorded history of one of Europe’s leading cultural festivals) and the development of new websites for the West Cork Music and WFMT Radio Network

Producer of Artszone (2007-10), Gardening with Helen Dillon and the Quiet Quarter (daily new Irish writing feature) at RTE lyric fm (2007-10)

Led Scoping Study at Contemporary Music Centre Archives (Dublin) (exploring digitization of concert program collection and integration into existing archival infrastructure)

Co-executive producer, Breaking Glass podcast, an Opera America-funded co-production of the WFMT Radio Network and Glimmerglass Festival about opera, race and social justice

Manager of production and delivery of local, national and international broadcasting of the Chicago Jazz Festival, incl. securing annual funding, budgeting, engaging radio hosts, rights clearance and acting as central project contact for the festival and for the national and international contacts for broadcast)

Sponsor of the first US musician in the 50-year history of the Euroradio Jazz Orchestra, an international ensemble residency program for early-career jazz musicians (Riga, Latvia, 2018)

Member of Jury for the Euroradio Jazz Competition at the Jazz at Marciac Festival (Marciac, France 2018)

Manager of MusiCorps, the community engagement program of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Manager of 2 satellite music education hubs of the Sherwood Conservatory of Music at the Beverly Arts and South Shore Cultural Centers in Chicago