Career Opportunity: Program and Education Manager
Job Description
Position: Program and Education Manager
Hours: 40 hours per week. General work hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday through Friday with additional weekend and evening hours corresponding to the Bach Festival’s performance schedule.
Salary: Negotiable
Benefits: Group health after 60 days’ employment. Paid time off accrued beginning from date of hire.
Reports to: Executive Director and Artistic Director
Classification under Wage and Hour Regulations: Exempt
General Description
Under the direction of the Artistic and Executive Directors, manages all aspects of the artistic and educational programming for youth and adult audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in music, performing arts, arts management, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a performing arts organization
- Ability to work well with a variety of individuals by using clear communication
- Optimistic and confident demeanor and ability to solve problems under pressure
- Ability to work independently and also as a member of a team
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and commitment and ability to meet deadlines
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
Specific Tasks:
- Works with Artistic Director to finalize annual artistic programming
- With Artistic Director, builds artistic budget, including orchestra fees, soloist fees, music purchase rental, tuning, and drayage for 5-year artistic plan
- Contracts and manages the Bach Orchestra
- Develops printed program content: soloist bios, headshots, notes, donor acknowledgments
- With Artistic and Executive Directors, develops and manages youth and adult educational programs
- Prepares artist contracts for visiting soloists
- Acts as primary liaison with all visiting artists
- Manages artist transportation, lodging, and technical needs
- Manages concert set-up & strike for all performances and events in coordination with Rollins College
- Manages rehearsals and instrument needs, including piano tuning and moving
- Orders music and oversees orchestra librarian
- Manages volunteers and student workers
- Serves as liaison between Artistic Director’s office and Choir
If you are interested in applying for this position, please mail, e-mail, or FAX a résumé and 3 references to:
Bach Festival Society Human Resources- 1000 Holt Ave., Box 2763, Winter Park, FL 32789 HR@BachFestivalFlorida.org, FAX: 407-646-2692
Career Opportunity: Patron Engagement Manager
Job Description
Position: Patron Engagement Manager
Hours: 40 hours per week. General work hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday through Friday with additional weekend and evening hours corresponding to the Bach Festival’s performance schedule.
Salary: Negotiable
Benefits: Group health after 60 days’ employment. Paid time off accrued beginning from date of hire.
Reports to: Executive Director
Classification under Wage and Hour Regulations: Exempt
General Description
Under the direction of the Executive Director, develops and manages the Society’s patron engagement strategy to create compelling communications designed to increase awareness of the Society in the community, increase ticket sales and season subscriptions, and expand the donor base.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, arts management, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in marketing and communications at a performing arts organization
- Appreciation for choral and classical music
- Thorough understanding of marketing and branding
- Positive and professional demeanor with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to express ideas creatively across communication platforms
- Ability to work independently and also as a member of a team
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook; social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter; WordPress; Photoshop; and PatronManager or other CRM software
Specific Tasks
Patron Engagement Manager
- Develops and implements an audience-engagement strategy to increase ticket-sale revenues while cultivating donors and volunteers
- Oversees all ticket-sale functions
o Sets up seasonal promotional materials for single-ticket and subscription packages
o Manages customer service
- Develops specific messaging to support the “Engagement Spiral” concept to engage patrons through more frequent attendance and familiarity with the repertoire
- Develops and implements all communications, including press releases, printed materials, advertising, website and online communications, and media relations
- Develops and manages the implementation of the annual fund
o United Arts Campaign
o End-of-Year Campaign
- Tracks success of communication strategies for reporting purposes
If you are interested in applying for this position, please mail, e-mail, or FAX a résumé and two references to:
Bach Festival Society Human Resources- 1000 Holt Ave., Box 2763, Winter Park, FL 32789 HR@BachFestivalFlorida.org, FAX: 407-646-2692
Carmina Burana Collaboration
The 20-century masterpiece Carmina Burana by Carl Orff brings together two Orlando performance groups—the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park and the Orlando Ballet. This program marks the second time Bach Festival has presented this work as a joint choral–ballet presentation, the first in 1992 with Southern Ballet Theater. The Bach Festival Choir has performed this work as a concert piece several other times since 1990 under John Sinclair’s baton, as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2009.
The Bach Festival Society’s member Choir, Orchestra, and Youth Choir will all be performing this 24 movement work (25 if you include the reprise of the signature “O Fortuna” movement), conducted by John V. Sinclair.
Three noted vocal soloists are part of the production: soprano Julia Foster, tenor John Daniecki, and baritone Anton Belov.
Robert Hill, Artistic Director of the Orlando Ballet for this performance, has produced new choreography for the work.
Filmmaker Henry Maldonado has documented the rehearsals of the Bach Festival and Ballet and will produce a brief film showing the collaborative process.
When/Where
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 8:00pm
Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 2:00pm
Bob Carr Performing Arts Center
401 W. Livingston St., Orlando, FL 32801
Tickets
Tickets range from $20 to $90.
Call the Orlando Ballet Box Office at 407.426.1739 or visit www.BachFestivalFlorida.org.
Media Requests
Contact Laura Wilcox to coordinate live shots, still photos, interviews, etc. High-resolution photos of the choir, orchestra, and John Sinclair are available on request.
Dr. John Sinclair receives prestigious alumni honor
Dr. John Sinclair receives prestigious alumni honor
Dr. John V. Sinclair of Maitland, Fla., was among three distinguished alumni from William Jewell College honored at the college’s 69th annual Achievement Day events Feb. 28-March 1. These alumni have made significant contributions in their respective fields.
Sinclair serves as chair of the Department of Music and is the John M. Tiedtke Professor of Music at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. He is celebrating his 23rd season as artistic director and conductor of the renowned Bach Festival Society of Winter Park and is the conductor of the International Moravian Music Festivals. The William Jewell 1976 alumnus completed his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Musically he is known for his creative interpretations, expressive conducting style and innovative programming. Over the past 15 years he has made more than 700 appearances as conductor, clinician or lecturer throughout the United States and many foreign countries. Dr. Sinclair is also a conductor of the Messiah Choral Society and the Candlelight Processional at EPCOT, and he has conducted recordings for Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Corporation, Moravian Music Foundation and numerous Bach Festival recordings. A master teacher, Dr. Sinclair has received many awards, including the Hugh F. McKean Teaching Award and Grant, Lifetime Achievement Award, Barden Teaching Award, Arthur Vining Davis Fellowship and the two-time “Outstanding Music Educator of the Year” by United Arts of Central Florida. He founded the Rollins College Community School of Music and the Bach Society’s Arts-in-Education program, FreshStARTS, which takes innovative music programs to thousands of public school students in central Florida each year.
The Achievement Day honorees were recognized at a dinner held at Kansas City’s Sprint Center, and at an on-campus convocation. They also met formally and informally with students to discuss their individual paths to achievement.
William Jewell College is a national liberal arts college in Liberty, Mo., a Kansas City suburb. Other alumni to be recognized at the time-honored achievement event include Josephine Staton Tucker, a Harvard Law School graduate and federal district judge for the Central District of California; and Mark Mathes, CEO of Kansas City’s Vanguard Companies, a pioneer in business and environmental sustainability, with an ultimate goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral manufacturer.
Special guest speaker for the Achievement Day dinner was Timothy J. Leiweke, president and CEO of AEG, a collection of companies owned or operated by one of the world’s leading presenters of sports and entertainment programming. Kansas City’s Sprint Center is an AEG managed facility.
For more information about Achievement Day events, visit www.achievementday.net.
