June 8-10
Americans for the Arts Convention
Grand Hyatt San Antonio
600 E. Market Street
San Antonio, TX
Info and registration
(I’ll be speaking as part of the session entitled “From Nice to Necessary: Local Arts Funding and Collective Impact” on Saturday the 9th from 11am-12:30pm, along with ArtsWave’s Mary McCullough-Hudson and The Boston Foundation’s Javier Torres.)

June 13-16
Chorus America Conference
Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis
35 South 7th Street
Minneapolis, MN
Info and registration
(I’m moderating a session called “Audience = Participants: The Arts’ Search for Relevance and How Choruses Can Help” from 3:30-4:45pm on Friday the 15th. Alan Brown and Sunil Iyengar will be on the panel with me. This will be my first time moderating a panel since college, I think – let’s see if I’ve gotten any better at it in 10+ years!)

Finally, C4, the collaborative chorus that I founded in 2005, has its final concerts of the season in New York City this week. This edition is a co-presentation with Fireworks Ensemble, an “amplified chamber band,” and features four new pieces ranging from a proggy setting of Victorian poetry to a rock musical Requiem to something that’s perhaps best described as an random word generator on crack. The concerts include our debut at (Le) Poisson Rouge on May 30, though I’ll be singing only in the June 2 performance. More information and tickets are available here.

Sunday, February 26
State of NYC Dance Symposium
Gina Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY
10am – 5:30pm
More info; event is SOLD OUT
(I’ll be speaking on the “Data on NYC Dance” panel from 11-12:15 about Fractured Atlas’s research on fiscally sponsored dance projects with Carrie Blake.)

Saturday, March 10
“Innovative Strategies in Arts Leadership”
organized by Emerging Leaders of New York Arts and the Pratt Institute Arts & Cultural Management Program
Gina Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY
6:30 – 8pm, reception to follow
Info here

March 23-25
Arts Enterprise Summit
Claremont Graduate University
160 East 10th Street
Claremont, CA
Info and registration
(I’ll be giving a workshop on “The Well-Informed Arts Professional” from 1:30-2:45pm on Saturday the 24th.)

During this time period, I’ll also be guest lecturing on “Arts, Economics, and Community Development” for Maria Guralnik’s “Making the Case for the Arts” class at Purchase College this coming Monday, and participating in a student colloquium at NYU on the subject of “Social Entrepreneurship in the Arts” on March 30. Unfortunately, those events aren’t open to the public, but wish me luck anyway!

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that C4, the collaborative chorus that I founded in 2005 and rejoined this past fall, isperforming twice next week in New York City. The concert is called “A Loss for Words” and features all music with either no or nontraditional lyrics, all composed within the past 25 years. You can learn more and buy tickets (powered by Fractured Atlas’s artful.ly ticketing system) here.

PS – this post was inspired in part by my recent discovery that a couple of panels that I’ve participated on in yesteryear were recorded and were subsequently posted to the web for public consumption. If you’re curious, here are a few that I didn’t know were available. If I find more, I’ll post them here or create an archive elsewhere on the site.

• “What Makes a Good Arts Leader?” at American University’s Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium, April 3, 2011
• “Defining Impact: Building a Case for Arts Support,” ELNYA Creative Conversation, October 5, 2010

In the next few weeks, I’m going to try to kick up the blog activity a notch. I’ve found that writing for Createquity has much in common with composing for me: it’s extremely rewarding, but easy to fall down on the priority list. Not surprising that both have been getting pushed aside in recent months, given my more-intense-than-anticipated spring semester at SOM. On the bright side, though, I’m singing with C4 Symphonic Chorus again in their final concert of the year, “hit it,” which will also feature the world premiere of my new piece She Didn’t Mean to Do It.

I’ll be back with some thoughts about b-school later today or tomorrow.

The previous evening, old friends C4 will be presenting an all-chamber-chorus concert entitled Under Rainbows at the Norwegian Seamen’s Church in New York City. I am familiar with some of the pieces that will be on this concert and they all sound great. Info about the concert at the link above.

Finally, I completed a new choral piece of my own in December, a setting of a poem by Daisy Fried called She Didn’t Mean to Do It. I’ll let you know when it receives its first performance.

Stay tuned for more thoughts on effective philanthropy next!

By way of introduction, I am a composer and singer who took a circuitous path to my current field—I was a computer geek for the first 17 years of my life before I discovered music. (OK, technically I was only a computer geek from about age 7 onward, but it feels like I had the bug at birth.) Since then, I’ve written two “rock symphonies” for senior projects in high school and college, founded a collaborative chorus called C4 and an electric chamber ensemble in which I sang through a guitar effects processor, and worked in fundraising for several arts organizations, most recently the American Music Center. I’m now at SOM trying to understand how everything I’ve been doing for the past 10 years fits in to a broader social and practical context. Won’t you help me along the way by commenting on my posts and writing me fascinating and/or witty emails? I can be reached at ian.moss@yale.edu. Look forward to hearing from you.