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 Bruce
Loving, History ‘86
Bruce
Loving was recently appointed president and CEO of Carnegie
Hall, Inc., the award-winning arts and education
center located in historic Lewisburg, West Virginia.
While
at MWC, Bruce was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and at his
graduation was awarded the Colgate W. Darden Medal for
attaining the highest academic average in his graduating
class. In 1989 he received his JD degree from the University
of Virginia School of Law, where he served as an
editor of the Journal of Law and Politics. He subsequently
practiced law in Ohio until 1994 and was an associate
at Frost
& Jacobs, Cincinnati’s largest law firm.
Long
interested in the arts, Bruce served as vice president
of the Cincinnati
Opera Guild Board of Trustees from 1991 to 1994,
at which time he decided to pursue a professional career
in arts administration. Since then he has held various
arts marketing, development, and executive positions
at opera companies in Tennessee, Virginia, and Michigan.
At
Virginia
Opera, the fifteenth largest opera in the US, Bruce
served as Director of Communications. More recently
in Michigan he focused on arts fundraising and management,
securing significant contributed income for programming,
capital improvements, and operations.
As
president and CEO of Carnegie Hall, Inc., Bruce is responsible
for directing an institution that annually reaches over
75,000 patrons and students through arts-in-education
programs, classes, workshops and art exhibits, as well
as live performances by such diverse artists as Issac
Stern, Wynton Marsalis, the Vienna Choir Boys, and Kathy
Mattea.
In
announcing the appointment, the chairman of Carnegie
Hall’s board of directors praised Bruce’s
“unique background as an arts executive, fundraiser,
marketer, and attorney,” and noted that “after
conducting an exhaustive search, during which we interviewed
candidates from across the country, we are confident
he is the best person to lead Carnegie Hall to the next
level of excellence.”
Bruce
says that people sometimes ask him how he can run an
arts and education center without having a degree in
arts management. His answer is that “a strong liberal
arts education prepares you to do anything.” More
specifically, he explains: “The stellar education
I received at Mary Washington is the bedrock upon which
my career was built, and my history
major was definitely the strongest component of
that education. I will continue to reap the positive
benefits from my experience in the history department
for the rest of my life.”
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