Mark Riggleman Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL

Provide leadership to and with the board in the formation and successful execution of a broad vision, goals and strategies. Responsibilities include: Serving as the primary ambassador of the Foundation; providing the board with analysis of the Foundation’s performance and areas of need; serving as the chief fundraiser establishing fund raising goals.

• Provided leadership and direction to support Lyric’s education mission. Responsibilities included: developing and maintaining educational programming that focuses on arts learning though opera; representing Lyric’s.
• initiated hiring and training of Lyric’s first teaching artists
• formalized structure and procedures for volunteer participation in education programs
• assembled and led the team that produced Lyric’s first family performance – Popcorn and Pasquale
• established and led a committee of staff members and collaborators to produce a long-range plan for education at Lyric
• produced Lyric’s first education video content for teachers

• Provided overall leadership for the school consisting of more than nine-hundred students and sixty faculty members. Responsibilities included: ensuring the effective and efficient management of the school.
• Led the Music Center’s expansion and relocation project (moved the Music Center from New Providence to Berkeley Heights, NJ)
• reorganized the administration to match the changing needs of the Center
• developed partnerships with community organizations
• initiated a capital campaign to support the renovation of the new building
• identified and cultivated potential new board members

• Provided direction and leadership for the school consisting of more than six-hundred students and fifty faculty members. Responsibilities included: Supervising, recruiting and hiring faculty, staff and visiting.
• Increased enrollment of the school by seventy-five percent
• designed and initiated a music technology program (one of the first technology programs in a community music school in New York City)
• created a residency program for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City
• established an endowment fund for the Y Community Orchestra
• created and produced a faculty recital series; and launched a new master class series presenting guest artists that included: Richard Goode, Martina Arroyo, Earl Wild, Elly Ameling, Claude Frank, Licia Albanese, Leon.

Created and taught classes for children.

Produced more than three-hundred outreach concerts annually in hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices as part of the Community Service Fellowship Program; supervised the faculty and managed all administrative details for the Music Advancement Program (a music education program for minority students in New York City public schools); managed the Performing.