Mitchell Korn

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V.P. of Education and Community Engagement

Mitchell Korn is a Bard College Senior Fellow for arts policy and planning and the former Harvard University Graduate School of Education lecturer on arts education planning and policy. Mr. Korn serves as a distinguished guest lecturer for arts and community at both Yale School of Music and Vanderbilt University. The Wall Street Journal has called him a “one man arts education industry.” Symphony Magazine in August of 2007 called him a "music education guru."

Mr. Korn, founder and president of Artsvision, and Vice President for Education and Community Engagement of the Nashville Symphony and Schermerhorn Symphony Center, is credited with helping return arts education to numerous urban centers across America including New York (The Annenberg Initiative), Chicago (The McArthur Foundation CAPE Initiative), San Francisco (The San Francisco School of the Arts), and more. Mitchell Korn and Artsvision have also created the award winning education programs of the San Francisco Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, The Bushnell and many others.

Over the last few years, Mr. Korn has developed the audience development and education strategic plans for Richmond's Center Stage Performing Arts Center, SFJAZZ and the SF Jazz Collective, Nashville Symphony and their new Schermerhorn Symphony Center; the Orange County Performing Arts Center (CA) and their new Segerstrom Concert Hall; the University of Hartford Hartt School Performing Arts Center; and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts "Great Works" audience development initiatives.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and tributes including Parents Magazine “As They Grow” Award in the Arts, honoring his efforts in "making the world a safer, healthier, and happier place for children."

Mr. Korn's success at arts education and audience development planning is evident through his more than eighty ongoing initiatives throughout North America and their sustaining abilities to provide meaningful service and programs to all audiences including adults, children, schools and communities.