Provost, CalArts

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nuscher@calarts.edu

Nancy Uscher has been Provost and a faculty member in the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts since 2004. She had previously been Professor of Music and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at The University of New Mexico. In addition, she was the Director of the UNM Center for the Arts in Society, a unit of the Institute of Public Law that explores arts-related public policy issues. In viewing art as an agent for social change, she created an Arts-in-Prisons concert series and the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project "A New Mexico Conversation: Music as a Symbol of American Pluralism and Identity."

Ms. Uscher received a Ph.D. from New York University. She was awarded a Masters of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester as well as an A.R.C.M. from the Royal College of Music in London. During 1998-1999 Uscher was a fellow of the American Council on Education at Brown University. She attended the Institute of Educational Management at Harvard University in 2007.

During her performance career as a violist, Ms. Uscher has appeared in recital on six continents and recorded for a number of the major radio networks of Europe including recitals for the BBC. For five seasons she led the viola section of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. She has participated at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Kennedy Center Mozart Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Round Top Festival in Texas, Venice Biennale, Montepulciano Festival, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy, and the Moab Music Festival in Utah. In addition, she has performed and presented master classes at the Brazilian international festivals Oficina de Musica XIV in Curitiba and Campos do Jordao's Festival de Inverno. She is the author of two books, The Schirmer Guide to Schools of Music and Conservatories Throughout the World and Your Own Way in Music: A Career and Resource Guide.