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News from the Center
Last updated September 1, 1997
Center has New Web Site Address
Richard Kessler is New Executive Director
The Center has a New Web Site Address
The American Music Center's web site has moved. Please make a note or our new address: www.amc.net
In addition, you can now reach all of our staff through email. The new addresses are:
Richard Kessler is Appointed as the New Executive Director
The American Music Center announces the appointment of Richard Kessler as Executive Director. Mr. Kessler has worked extensively in the field of
contemporary music as a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning
Saturday Brass Quintet and in arts education as Vice President of Artsvision,
one of America’s leading arts and education consulting firms.
“Richard Kessler brings a remarkable combination of experience and passions
to the American Music Center,” said Mr. Randall Davidson, President of the
Board of Directors. “For the past six years, Mr. Kessler has created and
implemented many of America’s foremost arts and education programs for a wide
variety of institutions, including cultural organizations, foundations, and
school systems. It is this experience along with the excitement that comes
from performing brand new music that singled Richard out as the leader to
take the Center into the next century,” said Mr. Davidson.
Mr. Kessler’s clients over the past six years have included The GE Fund, The
Aaron Diamond Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
The Dayton Hudson Corporation, The Acting Company, The Royal Conservatory of
Music, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ballet Chicago, The Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, The Gibbes Museum of Art, and many others. Included in
Richard Kessler’s recent work is the research, design and early
implementation of the Annenberg Foundation’s Arts Education Initiative for
New York City Public Schools, as well as a redesign of The Cleveland
Orchestra’s education program, the creation of a new School of the Arts for
The San Francisco Unified School District, and the development of a new
middle school arts partnership program for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Prior to his tenure at Artsvision, Richard Kessler was a founding member of
Saturday Brass Quintet, having performed and taught throughout the United
States and Canada for over ten years. Active in the commissioning,
performance, and recording of new music, Richard Kessler has premiered works
by a wide range of composers including Arvo Part, John Harbison, Aaron Jay
Kernis, Richard Danielpour, Elliot Goldenthal, Ned Rorem, and many others.
Throughout this period, Kessler was also busy as an artist-educator having
conducted residencies, master classes, workshops, and community outreach
programs for organizations such as Lincoln Center Meet-The-Artist, the
Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Conservatory, New York and
New Jersey Young Audiences, The New York Philharmonic, and others.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Richard Kessler holds two degrees from the
Juilliard School, and was a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music
from 1988 to 1993.
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