主講人:Peter Landgren
（曾任琵琶第音樂院法國號教授）
日期:2019年03月04日(一)
時間:13:30~15:10
地點:北藝大音樂一館M102
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For Peter Landgren, the road to becoming University of Cincinnati's provost was paved for many years with excellence in music performance and teaching, not academic degrees.
UC named Landgren as interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost Tuesday.
Landgren, who has served as dean of the College-Conservatory of Music since 2011, will assume his new role July 15.
"We've worked hard to expand outside of the lawns of the CCM village, creating community partnerships and partnerships with other UC colleges," Landgren told The Enquirer. "My new role is going to be taking that expansion that we've done within our college to a new level, university-wide."
Landgren's route to the position isn't typical, and he said he doesn't have the "classic terminal degree that is so historic to the position as provost."
For one, he turned to music rather than traditional academics.
Landgren attended UC's College-Conservatory of Music for three years as a French horn performance major, working towards a bachelor's degree in music. While a CCM student, he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra and performed and recorded with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He also won the school's concerto competition three times.
During his senior year, Landgren was offered a job to play with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He left UC before finishing his degree and went on to play the horn with that orchestra for 29 years. He was also a full-time faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University for 26 years, a role he said was earned based on his talent.
Despite not having a bachelor's or master's degree, he taught both graduate and undergraduate horn players, coached chamber music performances and conducted sectional rehearsals for both of Peabody's orchestras, according to Johns Hopkins. In 2003, he won the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. He then served as the interim director of the Peabody Institute, of which the Conservatory is one portion, for a year.
He would complete his bachelor's of music degree from UC in March 2005, university records show.
Landgren stepped away from his professional music career to pursue running a music school and went on to serve as the conservatory director at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea from 2007 to 2011. He also pursued master's in business administration at Johns Hopkins and Baldwin Wallace before coming back to Cincinnati as dean of CCM.
"When you look at what we're doing at UC, which is the oldest co-op university in the nation, it's all about experiential learning," Landgren said. "My life was geared to becoming a professional musician and that gave me that experiential learning to get out into the world and do what I wanted to do."
He said he has real-world experiences that he said are "every bit as valuable" as the typical educational path to becoming a university administrator.
"I work as well with respected Ph.D.s, as I do with researchers, as I do with dancers and people in the fields of media," he said. "So to me, this is not a stretch."
At UC, Landgen was a former chair of the Council of Deans as well as a past member of the President’s Cabinet and the UC Foundation Board. He administers a $110 million endowment that helps recruit students and faculty from around the world and initiated the CCM Infrastructure Project, which will usher in $15 million in renovations to college facilities in the coming years.
Landgren led the recent CCM partnership with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which received a $900,000 grant for a diversity fellowship program Bravos Without Barriers. The program is designed "to recruit graduate students from populations that are historically underrepresented in classical music."
He has also played key roles in building partnerships with the School for Creative and Performing Arts, the Freestore Foodbank and the Whiz Kids Music Program in conjunction with the City Gospel Mission.
Landgren will be the interim provost for one year, overseeing the operations of UC's 13 colleges, Graduate School and libraries. He will also run the academic and student services provided more than 44,000 students and 4,200 faculty members.
“As dean of UC’s college that boasts more than half of UC’s top-10 programs ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Landgren has been a champion for student and faculty diversity, community and university engagement, interdisciplinary collaborations and university service on every level,” Interim President Beverly Davenport said in a news release.
Davenport was named interim president after Santa Ono resigned from the position in June to become president of the University of British Columbia.