Andrew Recinos

President & CEO, Tessitura

Connecting the Dots

7/18/2018

25 min

What does the world need right now?

And what am I really good at that can help with that need?

More importantly, how do the answers to those questions help you in your day-to-day life and work?

Tessitura Network President Andrew Recinos explores the answers that he's found in visits with cultural organizations around the world. These organizations' inspiring stories have another purpose: sharing the joy of our work in arts and culture can provide an antidote to the stress of the world we live in. Help keep that momentum by sharing your own moment on social media with the hashtag #sharetheculture

Andrew delivered this talk to more than 1,800 attendees from over 300 arts and cultural organizations at the 2018 Tessitura Learning and Community Conference in Orlando in July 2018. The same day he launched his new blog, “The Culturephiles.” 

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Andrew Recinos

Andrew Recinos

President & CEO
Tessitura

Andrew Recinos (he/him) is the President & CEO of Tessitura Network.

Recinos brings a unique skillset to the position, having held roles as business leader, arts administrator, technologist, and musician.

He began his affiliation with Tessitura in 2002, working as an implementation contractor for new Tessitura members. In 2009 he became the Product Manager for the Tessitura Next Generation project, serving as a key member of the leadership team for what was then the company’s largest technology effort to date. In 2012, Andrew joined Tessitura leadership as Executive Vice President, and in 2021 he was named President & CEO.

Prior to joining Tessitura, Andrew spent eight years as a member of the leadership team of Jacobson Consulting Applications (JCA), an independent technology company devoted to the nonprofit sector. From 1995 until 2002, Andrew served in a variety of roles in fundraising and technology at Carnegie Hall in New York City, including Director of the Friends of Carnegie Hall and Head of Systems for Development.

Andrew is a pianist, trumpet player and composer and has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Recinos served as the Resident Composer of the Godlight Theatre Company in New York City for a decade and was part of the artistic team awarded a Drama Desk Award in 2010.

He holds a master’s degree in arts administration from the O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and was given the O’Neill School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022. Andrew serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Cultural Affairs, is a Board Member of ArtsFund and is a member of the Technical Working Group for the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Arts and Evidence-based Research Center. Andrew lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Peg and child Rowan.

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