PRIZM Ensemble’s board of directors has selected Gavin Wigginson as executive director of the music education nonprofit.
He will oversee operations and strategic direction for the organization that elevates chamber music education opportunities for youth in the Greater Memphis area. Wigginson will manage development, drive programming, recruit mentors, and foster community partnerships to support PRIZM’s youth outreach efforts.
Major programs that Wigginson will handle are the PRIZM Music Camp and International Chamber Music Festival, a two-week summer program for area youths to immerse in intensive musical training by day and performance by night, and the PRIZM in the Schools program, which provides high-level introductory music classes and orchestral instruction at various schools.
Wigginson is the director of concert choir and a voice instructor at LeMoyne-Owen College. He previously served as a fellowship coach for Memphis Music Initiative, where he partnered with dozens of local schools and managed a team of music fellows who taught more than 750 students each semester.
Wigginson has a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Wigginson’s predecessor, Roderick Vester, stepped down as PRIZM’s executive director at the end of July 2021 to join Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia, as director of contemporary music.
