ABSTRACT
Plato said, ‘what is honoured in a society will emerge in that society’. Therefore, to nurture creativities (in those pursuing a career in music, practising and preparing for performance, music production, arts administration or music teaching, and in enabling a multitude of career options), music institutions need to be contemporary environments in which creativities are embedded, cultivated, modelled and resourced. While we might regard the historical legacy of creativity as being about domain-specific musical processes, products and people, nevertheless, as will be argued in this chapter, a central ingredient in the composition of successful institutions is the ingredient of leadership. Throughout this chapter, music institutions will be regarded as environments in which decisions are made about people, programmes, practices and professionalism at a level of complexity that requires leadership creativities to be championed in ways that provoke invention, originality, imagination, entrepreneurialism and innovation.
