Penny Brandt
Penny Brandt
Assistant Professor, Performing Arts
Assistant Professor and Director of Arts Administration, Performing Arts Department
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I am a leader and advocate for the arts, a curator, musician, and educator. I have managed nonprofit arts organizations and music directed shows around the US and Canada. Currently, I mentor the next generation while seeking likeminded creatives and creative leaders to work together to build community around art that is accessible, equitable, local, and transformative.
Formal bio:
Dr. Penny Brandt (pronouns: she/they) is Assistant Professor and Director of the Arts Administration program at Wagner College. She serves as a grant adjudicator for New Music, USA and on the Community Advisory Board for the Draylen Mason Fellows Program at Austin Soundwaves. Previously, she held the position of Managing Director at Golden Hornet while teaching courses in Arts Administration and Music History in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas-at Austin. Dr. Brandt has presented research in music curation and production at the national conference of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, for the AHRC Research Network at the Royal College of Music in London, at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory, the Women XXI conference in Portugal, and in other academic settings. Her work is published in Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Music in the Modern Age and in the American Journal of Arts Management.
Dr. Brandt served as the Artistic Director of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford from 2013–2018 and taught courses in music history and gender studies at the University of Connecticut while earning a Ph.D. in Music Theory & History with a concentration in Feminist Studies, culminating in her 2017 dissertation “A Marriage and its Music: the work of Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo Respighi in fascist Italy.”Also an accomplished performer, she has been described as an “excellent music director” (Talkin’ Broadway) and has led dozens of musical theater productions in the United States and Canada. She has performed as a collaborative pianist around the world, including at the IKFEM: International Keyboard Festival & Masterclass in Valença, Portugal, the International Vocal Arts Workshop in Grožnjan, Croatia, the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, and at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy in Michigan. Dr. Brandt received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Connecticut, her B.A. summa cum laude from the University of New Haven, and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Harvard University Extension School.
Course Code | Course Title | Course Description | Time & Location |
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AA011-01 | Administrative Ass't. Practicum | Main Hall | |
AA453-01 | Internship in Arts Management | ||
AA454-01 | Internship in Arts Management | ||
TH011-08 | Theatre Lab | Main Hall | |
AA490-01 | Senior Seminar/Reflective Tutorial | Main Hall 8 |