New York City-based Orchestra of St. Luke’s has announced the appointment of JENNIFER KESSLER as director of education. She will lead efforts to expand OSL’s educational and community-engagement program with activities in and around the orchestra’s new home, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Kessler will oversee OSL’s integrated arts curriculum and free concerts for New York City public school students and strategize new ways to connect with the city’s diverse communities. Kessler was most recently with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, where she curated workshops for young professional musicians, educators, and teaching artists. In 2012 she completed the Sistema Fellows program at New England Conservatory, which included a teaching residency in Venezuela, visits to El Sistema-inspired programs in the U.S., and presentations on music for social change at conferences sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Harvard University. A professional horn player, Kessler trained at Northwestern University and Germany’s Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule, and has performed with such ensembles and festivals as the Berlin Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Academy, Aspen Music Festival, and Israel’s Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion.
Jennifer Kessler photo by Sam Comen
Posted July 3, 2012
