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Abra K. Bush, DMA,is an academic leader, teacher, musician, and arts focused institutional effectiveness consultant, she is a thought leader in 21st century performing arts education. Her expertise encompasses change leadership, curriculum and policy development, student retention initiatives, institutional effectiveness, and leadership development of faculty and staff.

 

Dr. Bush earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Theater from Oberlin Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice from the Ohio State University. She taught voice at Kenyon College and Concordia College and has previously served as the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Assessment at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, the Director of the Music Division at the Boston Conservatory and the Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She is currently the David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. 

 

She holds certifications as a executive leadership and transition coach and is a Design Thinking practitioner. She has served on the College Music Society’s Task Force on Leading Change, is a member of the council of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC), a board member of Pi Kappa Lambda, and is an inaugural board member of the Equity Arc (formerly the National Instrumentalist Mentoring and Advancement Network, or NIMAN.) She is also the principal consultant of the Clark Webster Group.