Winchester Community Music School is very pleased to announce the appointment of its first Director of Development and Communications in the school’s 33-year history. After a lengthy search during this past fall, Sara McCabe joined the WCMS administration in January. Sara is thrilled to be working with WCMS, saying she feels like she's been searching for a "home for music" her whole life. "I grew up in Dallas, and we didn't have community music schools," she says. "I never thought I was a good enough musician to join the school band, so I just ended up looking for my own musical inspiration and community. I didn't even know there were places like WCMS where you have all these resources to explore so many different facets of music." Sara plays keyboards in a local rock band and formerly played with the Inside Out Steelband in Austin.
Executive Director Laurie Russell and the WCMS Board of Trustees are pleased to see the school move forward with the creation of this new position. It will allow WCMS to create a more robust development and marketing program to support the school’s current operation as well as strategic initiatives into the future. The new position, as well as the school’s current strategic planning process, are part of a capacity building initiative that is funded by the Cummings Foundation “$100K for 100” 2013 grant program.
Sara is new to New England, having moved here in early 2012 to be closer to her husband's family. In addition to Texas, she has lived in Georgia, California, and Japan, but says that the Bay State is her favorite because it has the best swimming, hiking, and biking. With more than 20 years in marketing communications and a decade in nonprofit fundraising, she comes to WCMS most recently from K. Weill Consulting Group, where she managed grants for nonprofit clients. Sara has also served a total of nine years on nonprofit boards and has a long history of volunteerism with disadvantaged youth, animals, and environmental efforts. She holds a Bachelor's in marketing from Santa Clara University and a Master's in Organizational Leadership and Ethics from St. Edward's University. She and her husband, Charlie, live in Arlington with two pre-owned cocker spaniels who came for a visit and never left.
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Winchester Community Music School is a non-profit community school of music and is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. With a faculty of more than 60 talented teaching artists, the School offers private lessons, group classes, ensembles, and workshops from beginning instruction to the pre-professional level to over 850 students each week. For more information, please call 781-721-2950 or visit www.winchestermusic.org.
