Alain Barker has an entrepreneurial career that includes arts organization development, arts policy research, communications and marketing, teaching and performance and joined the Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development as its founding director in July, 2014.

From 2004-2014, Alain directed Jacobs School of Music marketing and publicity operations. He was executive director of the Bloomington Early Music Festival from 1994-2004. He has also worked as a consultant to the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia; agent, organizer and publicist for local not-for-profits, concert series and artists; manager of three international tours.

Alain was co-principal flute in the Orchestra of the Asturian Principality, in Oviedo, Spain, and principal flute in the Marion Philharmonic. He has performed in numerous recitals and music festivals around the U.S. and toured across the U.S., as well as to Mexico, Colombia, and Israel. He taught for four years as a visiting lecturer in flute during the Jacobs School’s summer semester.

Alain has served on a number of local board and commissions, including the City of Bloomington Arts Commission, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Board of Directors, WFIU (Public Radio) Community Advisory Board, and the IU Arts & Humanities Council.

He holds a BM from the University of Cape Town, and an MM and DM from the IU Jacobs School of Music.

NATHAN FISCHER, Career Advisor

For twenty years, Nathan has built a career that has taken him full swing around the world.  Currently, he is a Career Specialist with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development.

​Faculty appointments have included Senior Lecturer of Classical Guitar with the University Teknologi MARA in Malaysia, Visiting Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral Fellow at the American University in Cairo, and Visiting Professor at the National Conservatory in Cairo, Egypt.  He also held adjunct positions with the Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and SUNY Fredonia in Upstate New York.  He received the UiTM Outstanding Service Award in 2013 for teaching and advancing students.

​As a performer, Nathan has appeared on five continents as both soloist and chamber musician with the Silver Sands Guitar Trio, the Orphika Duo, and other collaborations.  An advocate for commissioning and performing new music he has worked with many composers worldwide.

His research portfolio has included grants from the Howard Hanson Institute of New Music, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, and a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant recipient.  He is currently co-researcher for the Bestari Perdana grant entitled The Malaysian Art Song as a Unifying and Empowering Cultural Identity.  AUC/UiTM faculty grants enabled study of the works of Antonio Lauro with Luis Zea in Caracas, Venezuela, and presentations on Tazul Tajuddin in Istanbul, Turkey and on John Duarte at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.  He is an Associate Editor of Soundboard Magazine and co-founder of a new music incubator for composers and musicians called the Twisted Spruce Music Foundation (www.twistedspruce.org).  He has published with the Malaysian Music Journal and Soundset Recordings.

​Nathan holds a DMA and MM from the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses.  He attended the Accademia di Musicale Chigiani in Siena, Italy, studying with Oscar Ghiglia.  He earned his BM from George Mason University.  Upon graduating from Eastman in 2004 he received the Andrés Segovia Award for Musical Accomplishment and Human Endeavor.

 

JOANIE SPAIN, Career Advisor

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