The Progressatorium Podcast

ERIK GENSLER Telling Your Story

* Capacity Interactive [https://capacityinteractive.com/] * CI to Eye Podcast [https://ideas.capacityinteractive.com/ci-to-eye-podcast] ABOUT ERIK Erik Gensler is an arts lover, marketing nerd, and eternal optimist. He is the President and Founder of Capacity Interactive, a digital marketing consulting firm for the cultural sector. In 2010, Erik founded Digital Marketing Boot Camp for the Arts. Erik is a frequent speaker at arts gatherings and arts administration programs. He hosts a podcast series about arts administration called CI to Eye and a livestream called CI to Eye Live! where he speaks with leaders and thinkers inside and outside of the arts. Erik built his career at NBC, New York City Opera, the Marketing Group and at Marakon Associates, a management consulting firm. He enjoys gardening, cooking, spending time outdoors, seeing shows, and going to museums.

AUBREY BERGAUER Changing The Narrative

* Aubrey Bergauer [https://www.aubreybergauer.com/] * San Francisco Conservatory of Music [https://sfcm.edu/] * California Symphony [https://www.californiasymphony.org/] ABOUT AUBREY Credited by Southwest Magazine with “redefining the classical concert experience as we know it,” Aubrey Bergauer defies trends—and then makes her own. Her focus on not just engaging—but retaining—new audiences grew Seattle Opera’s BRAVO! Club to the largest group for young patrons in the nation, led the Bumbershoot Festival to achieve an unprecedented 43% increase in revenue,and propelled the California Symphony to nearly double the size of its audience and quadruple its donor base. Praised by Wall Street Journal for leadership which “points the way to a new style of audience outreach,” Bergauer’s ability to strategically and holistically advance every facet of an organization,instilling and achieving common goals and vision across typically siloed marketing, development, and artistic departments, is creating a transformational change in the audience, in the office, on the stage, and in the community. A graduate of Rice University with degrees in Music Performance and Business, Bergauer now shares these ideas as founding executive director for the Center for Innovative Leadership at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, in addition to her consulting work and speaking engagements across North America, including conferences for Adobe’s Magento, Capacity Interactive, Opera America, Orchestras Canada, and the League of American Orchestras.She blogs about changing the narrative for the classical music industry athttp://www.aubreybergauer.com/writing.

MICHAEL STEPNIAK Better Together

* Shenandoah Conservatory [https://www.su.edu/conservatory/] * Beyond The Conservatory Model: Reimagining Classical Music Performance Training in Higher Music Education by Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin [https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-the-Conservatory-Model-Reimagining-Classical-Music-Performance-Training/Stepniak-Sirotin/p/book/9780367226930?utm_source=crcpress.com&utm_medium=referral] * Peter Sirotin [http://www.petersirotin.com/] ABOUT MICHAEL Michael Stepniak is a broadly trained artist and educator. As Dean of Shenandoah Conservatory, Stepniak oversees a dynamic community: a higher education unit of over 120 faculty and close to 750 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 28 degree programs; the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy serving approximately 1,200 students; a performance season and venues serving over 28,000 patrons each year; and 52 operational budgets. Since beginning his work as dean in 2009, Stepniak has been privileged to work with conservatory faculty and students and broader university leadership in radically increasing the conservatory’s profile while simultaneously strengthening its historical commitment to providing an exceptionally nurturing community for young artists. As a soloist and chamber musician, Stepniak has performed in major concert halls and venues in 11 countries, been featured on National Public Radio, recorded for the Centaur Records label, performed frequently with the Mendelssohn Piano Trio, as a member of the National Philharmonic String Quartet, the Contemporary Music Forum, and the Razumovsky String Quartet, and has collaborated with various leading chamber musicians, ranging from Ann Schein, Earl Carlyss, and Lory Wallfisch, to Arlo Guthrie. Papers such as The Washington Post have referred to his playing as tremendously poised and transcendent. Stepniak completed interdisciplinary doctoral studies in aesthetics, education, and leadership at Harvard University (where he won the Spencer Fellowship and Entering Award), and graduate studies in viola at Peabody Conservatory (where he won the Sidney Friedberg Prize), in musicology at Northwestern University (where he was appointed to the alpha chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda) and in violin at New England Conservatory (where he was leader of the Honors Quartet). After leaving his native Australia at 15 for studies in Canada, he completed his undergraduate studies in the United States with high distinction in Music and English at Atlantic Union College. Stepniak maintains an active role in arts education at the national and international level. He has served on the board of directors of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, and has chaired the global connections taskforce in that same body. Beyond the arts, Stepniak has worked with college and university presidents and senior leadership from Rice University to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on issues ranging from leadership development and arts initiatives, to curriculum reviews and strategic planning. As an artist, Stepniak is connected to an exceptionally rich musical heritage through studies with foremost chamber musicians and soloists. As leader of New England Conservatory’s Honors Quartet, the Polish-Australian Stepniak worked extensively with Eugene Lehner, longtime member of the legendary Kolisch Quartet (which premiered chamber works for Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and Bartók), and former student at Budapest’s Royal Conservatory of Music of Zoltán Kodály and Jenő Hubay. As principal violist with the Peabody Conservatory symphony orchestra and violist with the Razumovsky Quartet, Stepniak studied chamber music with Earl Carlyss, a 20-year member of the Juilliard Quartet and former student of Ivan Galamian and the Paris Conservatoire’s Roland Charmy and Jacques Février. He also received coachings at Peabody from Berl Senofsky, a former student of Louis Persinger and Ivan Galamian. Stepniak’s other primary teachers include violinst/composer/pianist Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse (former student of Louis Persinger, Nadia Boulanger, and Leon Fleisher) and violinist James Buswell (former student of Ivan Galamian). His viola training at Peabody Conservatory included work as the teaching assistant to Victoria Chiang (a former student of Heidi Castleman and Dorothy DeLay). Stepniak’s musicianship is further informed by a breadth of intellectual training from leading music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists including Robert Levin, Theodore Karp, and Paul Berliner. Prior to joining Shenandoah, Stepniak served at Adelphi University as Associate Dean of Performing Arts. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, he was responsible for overseeing the further development of the Music, Dance, and Theatre departments, and was the director of Adelphi’s new Performing Arts Center, overseeing the successful launch and operationalization of a $30M state-of-the-art facility. He is married to Anne Schempp and is the proud father of Marianna, Caroline, and Tristan.

NICOLE MOLUMBY Comfortable In Challenge

* Boise State Music [https://www.boisestate.edu/music/] * Nicole's student, Astronaut Ellen Ochoa playing Vivaldi on the flute while serving as a mission specialist on STS-56 (1993) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtDUZYWMwKw] * Flute Unscripted Podcast Interview with Ellen Ochoa (2019) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONabSW-9_00] * Passion Flute [https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician/Passion-Flute-190720098198145/] * Camtasia [https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html], Panopto [https://www.panopto.com/], Flipgrid [https://info.flipgrid.com/] ABOUT NICOLE Dr. Nicole Molumby is Professor at Boise State University, Department of Music teaching flute and ear training. Internationally, she has performed in Slovenia, Croatia, Norway, Austria,  & the UK.  She recently completed a CD project, entitled Awakening: 21st Century Slovenian Flute Music with the MSR Classic Records Label that was inspired by the creative and contemporary music of Slovenian composers Blaž Pucihar, Črt Sojar Voglar, and Peter Kopač. In 2012, she received an Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Performing Arts, as well as a Boise State Arts and Humanities Fellowship for her contributions and performances of newly commissioned flute music by Slovenian Composers Blaž Pucihar and Črt Sojar Voglar.  In 2011, she was also named the College Music Society’s Technology Award recipient for her innovative teaching strategies using iPads in the University Aural Skills Class. Performance engagements have included: principal flute at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria (2002-2009); substitute flute with the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-present); National Flute Association National Convention in 2010-present; and College Music Society Board Member for Performance 2016-2018.  She is a faculty member at Passion Flute Summer Course since 2010 with flutists Angeleita Floyd, Jill Felber, and Claudia Anderson. Dr. Molumby is the National Flute Association’s Myrna Brown International Scholarship Liaison. She was adjudicator for the Hornsfall Flute Competition (Seattle, WA), MTNA Regional Woodwind Competition, and Idaho Music Educators Association. She received her D. M. A. from The Ohio State University with Katherine Borst Jones, M. M. degree from the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) with Peter Lloyd, and B.M. & B.M.E. from the University of Northern Iowa with Dr. Angeleita S. Floyd.  Currently, Dr. Molumby is practicing and teaching a westernized version of Yoga Nidra called iRest (Integrative Restoration).  She is a Level 1 Certified iRest Teacher.

ANDREA KALYN What Is The Work

* New England Conservatory Community Performances and Partnerships [https://necmusic.edu/cppp] * New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musicianship [https://necmusic.edu/em] ABOUT ANDREA Andrea Kalyn was born in England and grew up in London, Ontario. She trained as a pianist and musicologist. On January 1, 2019, Andrea became the president of New England Conservatory, chosen after what the conservatory called an "intensive" three-year search. Prior, Andrea was the Dean of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, from 2014 to 2018, and before that served for nine years as the conservatory's associate dean for academic affairs. From 2000-2004, Andrea was the Assistant Dean and Teacher of Music History at University of North Carolina School of Arts.  She received her bachelor's and master's degree from University of Western Ontario and holds an associate diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Andrea received her PhD from the Eastman School of Music and wrote a dissertation on American music of the 20th Century.