Kent Devereaux

Kent Devereaux is an American composer, director, academic administrator, and the 12th and current president of Goucher College. He was previously the president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) from 2015 to 2019. Education Devereaux attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in music composition in 1982. His teachers included Lou Harrison, Anthony Braxton, and Gil Evans. He briefly studied computer science at Stanford University and earned an MFA in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. Career Academia From 1985 to 1993, Devereaux served on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a one-year appointment at the California Institute of the Arts. Additional academic appointments include serving as Senior Vice President and Dean of Curriculum at Kaplan University from 2001 to 2008. He also served as professor and chair of the music department at Cornish College of the Arts from 2008 to 2014, where he curated the college’s presenting series, Cornish Presents, and co-founded and directed the Seat