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James Gandre is Provost and Executive Vice President of Roosevelt University. As Provost/EVP, he serves at the Chief Academic Officer of the University.
Before serving as Provost/EVP, Dr. Gandre was the Dean of Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at Roosevelt University (2000-2007). As dean he oversaw a faculty of more than 100 and a student body of 575 students. The College’s students come from more than 40 states and more than 25 countries. The music faculty consists of more than 25 members of the Chicago Symphony and Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestras (including 13 principals), Metropolitan Opera singers, Grammy winners and nominees as well as solo, chamber music, jazz artists, and scholars. The theatre faculty are professionals at local professional theatres and those with Broadway and national credits.
From July 2006 - November 2007, Dr. Gandre also served as Interim Dean of the College of Education.
From 1985 to 2000 Dr. Gandre worked at Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he was most recently Dean of Enrollment and Alumni and where he taught a vocal performance course entitled “Preparation and Presentation”.
As a performer, Dean Gandre has appeared as a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, at New York’s Pepsico Summerfare with the London Classical Players, with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and with members of the San Francisco Symphony in annual Messiah performances. His choral engagements include more than 175 performances with the New York Philharmonic, Aix-en-Provence Festival (France), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (The Netherlands), Israel Philharmonic, Warsaw Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, American Symphony, Opera Orchestra of New York, Voices of Ascension, and more than 20 commercial recordings and television appearances on EMI/Angel, EMI/Capital, Teldec, Delos, MusicMaster, Warner records, and on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS-TV (Live from Lincoln Center). In these performances, he has worked under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Sir Colin Davis, James Levine, Mstislav Rostropovich, Riccardo Chailly, Robert Shaw, Edo de Waart, Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington, Eduardo Mata, John Nelson, Carlos Kalmar and Giuseppe Patane.
Dr. Gandre is also a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys), has been a writer/consultant for the Peterson’s Guides publication, “Professional Degree Programs in the Visual and Performing Arts”, and served as the first Chairperson of the Advisory Committee for National Performing and Visual Arts College Fairs presented by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC).
Dean Gandre has presented his lecture, “Résumés, Photos and Other Necessities”, at colleges throughout the country, including Curtis Institute of Music, Stanford University, New England Conservatory, Oberlin College, University of Michigan, Peabody Conservatory, Mannes College of Music, the National Orchestra Institute at the University of Maryland, University of the Arts, and the University of New Mexico. In both 2005 and 2006 he served as the external adjudicator for graduation performance examinations at Australia’s University of Melbourne School of Music.
He serves on the board of both Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival and the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University as well as the Walnut Hill School (MA) Board of Visitors. He also serves on the Diversity Working Group sponsored by the Elizabeth Morse and Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trusts. He is a former member of the Board of The Choir Academy, a charter school of the Chicago Public School system. In 2003 he was a Regional Selector for the Alberto Vilar Global Fellowship in the Performing Arts at New York University.
Dean Gandre has been a consultant to institutions as diverse as Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music, the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and has served a site team member for American Bar Association’s accreditation division.
He has held the post of Chair of the Human Relations Committee (multi-cultural concerns) for the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling, and has been a panelist for the New World Symphony’s symposium on future multi-cultural recruitment for the orchestra. He has presented numerous panels on issues affecting lesbian/gay/bisexual youth and college/high school professionals at national and state conferences and is the Founder and former Co-Chair of the NACAC’s Counselors Concerned for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues caucus.
A Wisconsin native, Dr. Gandre earned his Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Lawrence University, a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has also attended the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, and has pursued postgraduate music study at the Blossom Festival School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. |
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