PHILIP WILDER has been named executive director of communications at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., effective in February 2012. Currently vice president of 21C Media Group, a New York City-based public relations, marketing, and consulting firm specializing in classical music and the performing arts, Wilder has prior experience in both nonprofit arts administration and performance. Before joining 21C Media he served as associate director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s capital campaign for the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and was a fellow at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Vilar Institute for Arts Management. For thirteen years he was a member of the San Francisco-based a cappella group Chanticleer, where he performed as countertenor and also served as artistic administrator/assistant music director and as education director. Wilder is a graduate of Eastman, where he received a bachelor’s degree in organ in 1990.
Posted December 23, 2011
