LEAP Guest Speaker Series: Jeffrey Nytch

The Entrepreneurial Artist: How Entrepreneurial Principles Apply to the Arts
Jeffrey Nytch has built a diverse career as a composer, teacher, performer, arts administrator, and consultant. He has also run a small business, co-founded a non-profit service organization in Houston, performed a wide range of repertoire as a vocalist, and served five years as Managing Director of The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (“PNME ”), one of the nation’s premiere new music ensembles. In 2009 he joined the faculty of The University of Colorado-Boulder, where he serves as Director of The Entrepreneurship Center for Music. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College and Masters and Doctoral degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Since then, his compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe by many major artists, and he has released several recordings on the MMC and Koch International Labels. The recording of hisClarinet Concerto was listed among the Best Classical Discs of 2002 by Gramophone magazine, and most recently, his Symphony No. 1: Formations, inspired by the geology of the Rocky Mountains, was co-commissioned by the Boulder Philharmonic and the Geological Society of America In addition to teaching, composing and performing, he maintains a career as an organizational and programming consultant to music schools and arts groups.

The talk will be held October 21, 2014 at 5:00 pm in the  Behavioral Sciences Room 131 on CSU's campus.