Mary Madigan has led the advancement of the arts and nonprofit management from positions at the Vermont Mozart Festival, international music publisher Boosey & Hawkes, Meet The Composer, Concert Artists Guild, The New School, and other important organizations.

She has championed artists and projects leading to high-profile performances: the American premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s opera Faustus, the Last Night at Spoleto Festival USA, the commissioning of John Luther Adams’s Sila, the Breath of the World by Washington Performing Arts and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and performances at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stanford Lively Arts, and other presenters.

Currently, Mary serves as Director of Public Programs and Communications at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she develops programs to engage the public in SAR’s body of knowledge, scholarship, and creative work.