Musician and entrepreneur Kevin Woelfel has been appointed director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music in the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Music. He succeeds interim Director Michael Millar.
Woelfel's diverse career in the music industry has included performance, composition and manufacturing. He has held trumpet positions with many orchestras including the Chicago Lyric Opera, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Sacramento Symphony.
He also has been active in the jazz and pop fields. As a composer and arranger, Woelfel was with the U.S. Air Force band stationed in Vacaville, Calif., and Yokota, Japan. As an entrepreneur, he founded two manufacturing companies, WolfPak Inc. and Rocky Mountain Case Works.
"For me, the opportunity to work with such a talented faculty in a program as progressive as the Entrepreneurship Center will be a real high point in my career," Woelfel said. "The music business is complex and deep, so the chance to nurture an aspiring musician's career is both a privilege and a responsibility to which I look forward."
The CU-Boulder College of Music opened the Entrepreneurship
Center for Music in September 1998 with a grant from the Louis and Harold Price Foundation. The center serves the college's 500 students as a bridge between academics and a professional career in music.
The center sponsors academic courses in the business of music entrepreneurship, provides information about basic business courses open to music students, hosts a guest lecture series of entrepreneurs in the arts, creates internships and mentoring opportunities and individually counsels students about career options.