peter mcdowell

Peter McDowell Arts Consulting - www.petermcdowell.com

<p>New York/Chicago based Arts Consultant Peter McDowell has built a solid career on high-level, strategic, creative, and effective service to performing arts organizations and&nbsp;performing artists. Music (jazz, new music, opera, classical) and dance are particular focuses.</p> <p>On behalf of his clients, as a publicist, Peter has placed feature interviews in media such as the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun and WGN and KUSC radio stations and has secured reviews in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New City, and L.A Times. He&nbsp;has received critics choices for clients in publications such as Time Out New York and received coveted listings in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Village Voice, Opera&nbsp;News and NPR Music as well as reviews on blogs and print publications such as Brooklyn Vegan, Signal to Noise, All About Jazz, The Big City, New Music Jukebox, Lucid Culture, Step Tempest, and Feast of Music.</p> <p>Together with web designer and developer Ari Salomon, Peter has created&nbsp;<a href="http://performsites.com/">PerformSites</a>, a company which builds WordPress web sites for visual and performing artists.</p> <p>Peter also serves as an event producer and curator and was responsible for programming 10 stages of live, free music in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn as part of&nbsp;<a href="http://makemusicny.org/">Make Music New York</a>&nbsp;on June 21, 2011. He also curated the Union Square Stage for&nbsp;<a href="http://septemberconcert.org/">The September Concert&nbsp;</a>(free concerts with the goal of promoting international peace through music) on September 11th each year from 1997-2010.</p> <p>From 1997-2006, Peter was a Program Director for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs where he presented and produced over 1000 music, dance, film/video and&nbsp;theater programs. Highlights of his tenure include a free summer opera program involving eight annual professional opera productions, which featured a chorus of 14-21&nbsp;year old at-risk youth alongside professional young soloists. Also of note was his &ldquo;Vocal Journeys&rdquo; series featuring operatic vocalists in intimate free concerts. He was a co-curator of the opening weekend at Chicagoʼs prestigious new Millennium Park and produced a park-wide tribute to Stephen Sondheim.</p> <p>He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the International Society for the&nbsp;Performing Arts. Peter was selected as the only American of 34 participants to take part in the first European Festival Association Atelier for Young Festival Managers in G&ouml;rlitz, Germany in 2006. He has served as a panelist for the NEAʼs Access to Artistic Excellence in Presenting grants and has served as an evaluator for the Multi Arts&nbsp;Production (MAP) Fund in New York.</p> <p>Peter is very comfortable working with emerging as well as seasoned artists. In the past 15 years he has produced and presented events featuring artists such as Fred Armisen, Andrew Bird, Nicole Cabell, Dave Frishberg, Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Fred Hersch, Garrison Keillor, Susanne Mentzer, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, and Studs Terkel; and with companies/ensembles such as Alloy Orchestra, eighth blackbird, Goat Island, Mucca Pazza, Chicagoʼs Neo-Futurists, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater.</p> <p>Peter served for over two years as Director of Programs at OPERA America in New York City where he led the Artistic Services and Education departments. During his time there, Peter oversaw many programs including workshops, seminars, and OPERA Americaʼs educational curriculum and granting program. He led the Individual Artist programming committee for the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, co-produced the first ever NEA Opera Honors Program and pioneered the first Director-Designer Showcase. Peter is fluent in French and German and recently served as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the DAAD US Alumni Association in New York.</p>

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