Community Music Center of Boston
Jared Field is an experienced music educator and director, currently serving as the Director of Programming at the Community Music Center of Boston since May 2024, after previously holding the position of Associate Director. Prior to this, Jared worked as a Music Teacher at Worcester Academy from August 2015 to June 2024, where responsibilities included teaching various music courses and serving as an advisor and dorm parent. Experience includes serving as Music Director for youth productions at The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts and providing composition and clarinet instruction at Teachers College, Columbia University. Additional roles involved office assistance in arts initiatives, counseling at Beam Camp, and supporting individuals with developmental disabilities through teaching. Jared holds a Master's degree in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Bachelor's degree in Music and Philosophy from Brandeis University.
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Community Music Center of Boston
Now in our 109th year, Community Music Center of Boston is a highly regarded and extremely resilient accredited non-profit in Boston's South End. For more than a century, we have built a living legacy of individuals, groups, and neighborhoods united by the power of music and transformed by a dual mission of access and excellence. The Music Center has pioneered community-based, lifelong learning as New England's oldest community school of the arts, and continues to exemplify Boston's diversity with the largest public school outreach partnership of any area arts organization. Our mission is to transform lives throughout Greater Boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experience. The Music Center's broadest mission is true to our settlement roots: to provide music education to anyone who seeks it, with particular emphasis on giving minorities, immigrants, individuals with special needs, or other underrepresented or marginalized groups an equal advantage. Our student body is composed of nearly 6,000 students each year, on-site in our 8,500 square foot facility at the BCA and in nearly 45 community outreach sites, including 29 public schools and satellites. Our in-house and satellite programs maintain a diverse student body that enrolls students who self-identify as 7% African-American/Black, 27% Asian, 15% White, 5% LatinX, and 46% unknown/mixed/other, while our outreach programs increases our diversity even further. The composition of our cultural constituencies shifts over time, depending on the influx of new immigrant populations, the evolving neighborhood demographics of Boston, and the makeup of students in the public schools.