Kendra Whitlock Ingram Named Managing Director at Shenandoah University
After a nation-wide search, Kendra Whitlock Ingram has been appointed to the newly created position of managing director at SU, reporting to the dean of Shenandoah Conservatory. She will also serve as director of Performing Arts Live!
Kendra Whitlock
After a nation-wide search, Kendra Whitlock Ingram has been appointed to the newly created position of managing director at Shenandoah University, reporting to the dean of Shenandoah Conservatory. She will also serve as the new director of the Performing Arts Live concert series.
In this position, Ingram will be responsible for marketing and promoting the 110-plus ticketed events held during each academic year within the university’s major performing arts venues, for building audience bases for performance seasons and artistic series, for further professionalizing all box office and front-of-house operations for ticketed performing arts events, and for further expanding the significance and reach of the Performing Arts Live concert series.
“The search committee and I are delighted with the experience, energy, creativity and dedication that Kendra will bring to this challenging new position,” said Shenandoah Conservatory Dean Michael Stepniak. “The job of creating an increasingly authentic link between the Conservatory’s performance series and the diverse population of Winchester and the northern Shenandoah Valley demands a unique skill set; the ability to build relationships with key and multiple stakeholders throughout the community, a broad knowledge of arts programming, a collaborative spirit, marketing savvy, creative energy, and a true insight into what is profound about arts-centered experiences.
“Kendra is wonderfully positioned to take on this challenge. I look forward to her leadership within the Conservatory in making our artistic programming a truly cherished and significant cultural resource for surrounding communities, and in bringing increasingly cutting-edge artistic performances to the region.”
“Kendra is wonderfully positioned to take on this challenge. I look forward to her leadership within the Conservatory in making our artistic programming a truly cherished and significant cultural resource for surrounding communities, and in bringing increasingly cutting-edge artistic performances to the region.”
Ingram brings a national level of experience to the role of managing director. Since 2007, she has served as vice president and general manager for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was director of pops and special programming at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, general manager of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, and orchestra manager for the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc. She also served as adjunct faculty in music management for Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., and as a grand review panelist for the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Ingram holds a Bachelor of Science in music education from Duquesne University, and was a fellow in the orchestra management program for the League of American Symphony Orchestras in New York.
Shenandoah Conservatory, founded in 1875, is located in the historic Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Va., approximately 70 miles west of Washington, D.C. More than 700 students are enrolled in baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral curricula in the areas of music, theatre and dance. In addition to collegiate instruction, the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy provides non-credit instruction for 1,700 students and includes performing ensembles for youth and adults. Shenandoah Conservatory is the oldest of six schools that comprise Shenandoah University, and has been an institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1940. For more information, visit www.su.edu/conservatory.