Tatiana Mann: Find Your Why

In Find Your Why, presented by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), Tatiana Mann will lead us to explore why we engage with our disciplines, what informs our decisions, and how to light our creative fire to fuel our future success.

As artists and humanists, why do we choose our career paths? Because of lucrative remuneration (supported by plentiful research grants) and a lavish lifestyle (afforded by sleepless nights working several jobs)? In pursuit of quixotic research, prestigious performances, exhibitions, publications, and accolades? Or do we choose to do what we do because at some point we couldn’t imagine a life without art, or without investigating humanity’s larger questions? Whatever our reasons, since we embarked on our career path, the surrounding landscape has changed and we are left wondering where to head next. To reach our destination (hopefully intact), it is helpful to reflect on what motivates, what drives us and what gets us fired up.

Tatiana Mann is a classical pianist, educator, administrator, and a passionate advocate for the arts and humanities. She has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and as a chamber musician. She is the recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed and worked in masterclasses with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianists Charles Rosen and Peter Frank, and with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Mann is the project manager of the Breaking the M.O.L.D. Initiative in partnership with UMBC, the University of Maryland, College Park, and Morgan State University, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Admission is free. A free lunch will be provided. Seating is limited, and an r.s.v.p. form will be available soon.

Photo: Jason Masters