WEST HARTFORD, CONN. (AP) - Aaron Flagg, a jazz trumpeter who has played with Wynton Marsalis and recorded with Roberta Flack, has been named the dean of the 89-year-old Hartt School in Connecticut.
The 39-year-old Flagg is executive director of the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains, N.Y., and has served on the faculty at the Juilliard School. He is the first black dean of the music school, part of the University of Hartford, and will start his new job June 30.
Flagg says he’s honored to lead a school with a tradition of excellence. He is taking over for Malcolm Morrison, who is returning to teaching at Hartt.
Hartt alumni include singer Dionne Warwick and television producer Kent McCray, who worked with actor Michael Landon on “Little House on the Prairie.”
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