We are honored to present the 2008 Power of Nursing Leadership Event Key Note Speaker, John Edward Hasse!
 

John Edward Hasse is a music historian, musician and award-winning author and record producer. He serves as Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, in Washington , D.C. He was founding Executive Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, an acclaimed big band, and founder of Jazz Appreciation Month, celebrated every April throughout the U.S. and in forty other countries.

He led the Smithsonian's efforts to acquire the archives of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, curated the exhibition Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington , which traveled to fifty-some cities. He is the author of an acclaimed biography, Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington , with a Foreword by Wynton Marsalis, and the editor of Jazz: The First Century , with Forewords by Quincy Jones and Tony Bennett.

Hasse is producer-author of the book and three disc set The Classic Hoagy Carmichael , which was nominated for two Grammy Awards. He has received two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in writing on music. He earned a B.A. Cum Laude at Carleton College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, a Certificate in Business Administration from The Wharton School, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Walsh University.

A talented educator, he is a popular lecturer and recitalist. He has lectured on leadership throughout the United States, and has presented programs in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Hasse can be heard on NPR, PBS, and XM Radio.

For information on the 2007 Speaker, Meagan Johnson, please click here.