JASON VAN EYK - Ontario Regional Director
Jason returns to the post of CMC Ontario Regional Director after a one-year absence in which he helped establish the University of Toronto ArtsZone, a tri-campus support office dedicated to improving communication, coordination and collaboration with U of T’s arts community. He originally joined the CMC in 2003.
Jason is an accomplished violist, having received a B. Mus. (magna cum laude) from the University of Ottawa and a M. Mus. from the Eastman School of Music. Jason has performed in Canada, the United States, France, Germany and Italy - on stage and in broadcast - with various ensembles and under a range of conductors including Jeanne Lamon, Leon Fleischer, Brad Lubman and Robert Shaw.
Jason completed an MBA specializing in Arts and Media Administration at York University's Schulich School of Business in 2000. Since then, he has worked as Marketing Manager with the Canadian Stage Company and Marketing Coordinator (Music and Visual Arts) with Harbourfront Centre. In 2003, shortly after joining the CMC, Jason received a special commendation in the Pfizer Award for Emerging Arts Managers, a unique national honour given to deserving candidates in the earliest years of their careers.
More recently, Jason has expanded his interests into writing and teaching. As a writer, he has focused on sound and music in his contributions to the Coach House Books’s uTOpia series. He currently serves as new music columnist for the Wholenote magazine, as well as a contributor to numerous music industry publications. As teacher, he has served as a faculty member for the Regent Park School of Music, a guest lecturer in arts management with the University of Toronto Scarborough, and co-developed the Business of Arts program for the Cultural Careers Council of Ontario.
Jason sits on the Board of Governors of the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Advisory Council of the University of Toronto Scarborough Arts Management program, the Advisory Committee of ArtsBuild Ontario, the Provincial Arts Service Organization Coalition, and convenes the Toronto Coalition of New Music Presenters.
