Maclain Hardin Kurza, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Arts Management

Dr. Maclain Hardin Kurza's research centers around nonprofit organizational resilience, choral music administration practices, and arts management curriculum design. As a practitioner, Dr. Kurza served as Executive Director of The Tallahassee Community Chorus, one of the largest non-auditioned choral ensembles in the United States with 250 singers each season. With the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE), she led the California-based Arts Administrators Pipeline Fellowship program. Dr. Kurza holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Arts Administration from Florida State University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate coursework in arts management.

A singer by trade, Dr. Kurza holds a B.M. in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College and remains active as a presenter, researcher, and performer of choral music. She has collaborated with world-renowned orchestras and conductors such as Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She served as a choir member and section leader of the GRAMMY®-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, with whom she recorded three full-length choral albums: Hole in the Sky (GIA Publications), Carolae: Music for Christmas (Naxos Records), and Silence into Light (GIA Publications).

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Voice Performance
Westminster Choir College of Rider University

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Arts Administration
Florida State University College of Music

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Art Education - Arts Administration
Florida State University College of Fine Arts
Dissertation Title: "How Can I Keep from Singing? Choral Organizational Resilience through the COVID-19 Pandemic"

COURSES TAUGHT

ARTM 200: Introduction to Arts Management
ARTM 225: The Art of Creativity
ARTM 321: Arts Marketing and Public Relations

SELECTED PUBLICATION

 Hardin Kurza, M. (2024). Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to arts management curriculum. American Journal of Arts Management.