LEADER

As an infectious leader, energetic community-organizer and innovative entrepreneur, Dr. Kirsten Soriano (formerly Kirsten Broberg) has founded, served for and led a multitude of organizations, boards and committees. With nearly 20 years of experience in academic and arts administration, she is an expert in implementing strategic plans; management and supervision; organization, problem-solving; and budgeting. Dr. Soriano has produced hundreds of live performances in New York, Chicago and throughout the midwest through various companies she founded and for which she served at the Executive Director or Co-Director.

STUDENT RETENTION AND CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Soriano has successfully implemented strategic plans to improve retention rates and student success as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee in the College of Music at the University of North Texas College of Music. Under her leadership, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee has passed over one hundred curricular proposals she has has helped bring the College's curriculum into the twenty first-century by helping to implement the following programs:

      • Minor in Music Business/Entrepreneurship 
​      • Minor in Commercial Music
      • Concentration in Electronics 
      • An new prefix in Audio Engineering

CORE CURRICULUM REDESIGN

An effective team leader and strategist, Dr. Kirsten Soriano led a year-long initiative to update and expand the College's core curriculum to include more diversity, flexibility and student choice, resulting in the possibility for the following new courses—along with foundational Music Communication, Theory and History courses—to be included in the music core curriculum:

      • Music Cultures of the World
      • African-American Music
      • Music, Gender, Sexuality
      • Music as Politics
      • History of Rock
      • Jazz History
      • Sounds as Cinema
      • Contemporary Music
      • Introduction to Electroacoustic Music
      • Audio Engineering
      • Commercial Music/Songwriting
      • Music Business and Entrepreneurship
      • Instrumentation
      • Conducting
      • Performing Arts Health

UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEES

      • Executive Faculty Senate     
      • Faculty Senate
      • University Curriculum Committee
      • Faculty Advisory Committee
      • Divisional Promotion and Tenure Committee
      • Pi Kappa Lambda
​      • Numerous search committees

COMMUNITY AND STUDENT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

      • Northwestern University Graduate Music Organization (President)     
​      • New Music Chicago (Board Member)
      • Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (Composition Chair)
      • Chicago Composers Forum (Steering Committee)

ARTS ADMINISTRATION

      • Ensemble Dal Niente (Executive Director)
      • International Contemporary Ensemble (Marketing Assistant)
      • Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Fundraiser)
      • Minnesota Orchestra (Season Sales Associate)

ADJUDICATION

      • New Music USA
      • Aaron Copland Recording Program 
      • American Composers Forum Jerome Fund
      • Meet the Composer’s Cary New Music Performance Fund 
      • Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
      • Issaquah Philharmonic Orchestra call for scores
      • University of Houston’s Sarofim Composition Contest
      • Twisted Spruce Competition
      • Ensemble Dal Niente Call for International Scores
      • Midwest Graduate Music Consortium International Call for Scores

Photography of Kirsten Soriano by Jessica Quadra Photography