Office: O’Bannon Hall 105
Phone: (417) 873-7388
E-Mail: sbomgardner@drury.edu
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Stephen Bomgardner combines an active singing career with a full-time teaching career. On the concert stage, he has performed over 130 solo and chamber music recitals in Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Houston, and numerous other cities across the United States. In opera, his professional repertoire includes thirty-nine character tenor roles such as the Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Vasek (The Bartered Bride), and Major General Stanley (The Pirates of Penzance). A Resident Artist with Springfield Regional Opera, he has performed in 15 productions in the past 13 years, including the roles of Vanderdendur (Candide), Vogelsang (The Impresario), Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Rodrigo (Otello), Basilio and Curzio (The Marriage of Figaro), the Counselor (Trial by Jury), King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Mr. Erlanson (A Little Night Music), Spoletta (Tosca), and three SRO gala concerts.
He is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Drury University where he teaches voice, lyric diction, vocal pedagogy, and music history. In academic performance, he has given 45 lecture recitals at regional and national music conferences of the College Music Society and the Texas Music Educators Association. These include lecture recitals on songs by Stravinsky, Britten, Haydn, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Finzi, Wolf and Copland.
A full-time music professor since 1996, he previously taught at Minnesota State University-Mankato, Gustavus Adolphus College, Pittsburg State University and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University’s School of Music, the Master of Music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music from Fort Hays State University.
Drury University faculty member since 2005
Professor since 2014
Sara R. Leonard is an arts management consultant and researcher specializing in audience development, strategic planning, emerging leader development, and team building. Her experience includes more than a decade in nonprofit administration, including her most recent position as Manager of Concert Programming, Production, and Publicity at Amherst College. Current clients include Missouri Contemporary Ballet and the Delaware Valley Opera Company.
To complement her consulting with nonprofit arts organizations, Sara presented a paper entitled, “Creating Identity, Creating Community: Using Technology to Build Vital Organization-Based Audience Communities for the Performing Arts” at the International Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, and co-led a roundtable discussion, “How to Create Communities: 4 Keys to Developing Loyal and Engaged Audiences,” with Steppenwolf Theatre at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference, both in fall 2013. She has twice been an invited blogger for the National Arts Marketing Project Blog Salon.
In addition to her independent work, Sara collaborates on arts and cultural sector research with MBK Analytics, LLC. Her team is current recipient of a contract from the National Endowment for the Arts under which they are analyzing and writing a report on arts data from the General Social Survey, with emphasis on the motivations and barriers that impact arts attendance.
Sara finds opportunities for teaching to be among her favorite and most rewarding work, and is thrilled to work with Drury’s arts administration students. She also serves as a guest lecturer and adjunct thesis advisor for Goucher College’s MA in Arts Administration program, and will be an adjunct instructor at Westminster College (Fulton, MO) in Fall 2014.
Sara holds a BA in Theatre from Davidson College, and an MA in Arts Administration Goucher College, where she was 2012 recipient of the Jean Wilhelm Award for best graduate thesis paper for her community-generating approach to audience development for nonprofit theatre.
Education:
B.A., Davidson College, 2003
M.A., Goucher College, 2012
Guest Lecturer
Email: scott@springfieldarts.org
Scott Giffen currently serves as the Vice President of Development for Greenville College in Illinois. He also is a senior consultant for Robert Swaney Consulting, Inc; providing national fundraising counsel and assessment services and creating and implement strategic fundraising and sponsorship marketing initiatives. As a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), Scott offers full-scale training for development officers, management executives and board members to maximize their fundraising potential
Previously, he served as the Executive Vice-President at the Creamery Arts Center. In this role, Scott led an innovative, multi-year collaborative endowment campaign in partnership with the Springfield Regional Arts Council, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Springfield Ballet, Springfield Little Theatre at the Landers, SRO Lyric Theatre and the Community Foundation of the Ozarks’ Arts Programming Sustainability Initiative.
He earned his degree in business with emphases in arts management and finance and vocal performance from Greenville College, where he was recently awarded Outstanding Young Alumnus. Scott also completed a masters-level intensive through New York University’s Visual and Performing Arts Administration program in Holland, Germany & Spain.
Education:
B.S., Business Management, Greenville College
Guest Lecturer
Emilia Brown is a licensed attorney and legal translator. She received her J.D. from the University of Kansas, and her Bachelor’s in Speech from Northwestern University. She has worked as both a civil and criminal litigator. She earned a graduate degree in Arts Management from the University of Florence, Italy. While in Italy, she worked for the Spoleto Festival, and as an on-camera host for an arts and culture program. Other arts-related positions include The Kennedy Center’s Festival of China, and touring as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew with The National Players.