Bush Conservatory of Music

History

Presidents

• Kenneth McPherson Bradley stepped down as president of the Bush Conservatory in October 1925 to become director of the Juilliard Foundation in New York. He was the nephew of the former governor of Kentucky, William O'Connell Bradley.
• Edgar Andrew Nelson, a choral director and oratory coach, and vice president at the Bush Conservatory, was appointed President in October 1925, replacing Bradley. Nelson was of Swedish descent. He had studied piano with Emil Larson and, later, Harald von Mickwitz. He also studied organ with Clarence Dickinson. In 1908, Nelson earned a Bachelor of Music from the Bush Conservatory and subsequently was appointed assistant managing director of the conservatory. Nelson went on to serve as president of the Chicago Conservatory, after the Bush Conservatory merged with it in 1932.

  Noted faculty and alumni

• 1921–1932 — Jan Chiapusso, piano
• Grace Potter Carroll
• Charles W. Clark, baritone
• Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, head of the piano department
• Frederic Lamond, guest artist who held several master classes
• Edgar Nelson
• Moissaye Boguslawski, piano
• Harald von Mickwitz
• Richard Rudolph Czerwonky, violinist
• Edgar Albert Brazelton, a pianist and theory teacher, eventually became Dean of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, after the merger
• Sergei Tarnowsky
• Herbert Miller
• John J. Blackmore
• Mae Graves Atkins, soprano
• Agnes Pringle, violinist who had studied with Leopold Auer
• Jeanette Lamden, vocalist
• Ebba Sundstrom Nylander, violinist and conductor

• Frieda Siemens, pianist & director of the piano department. On July 27, 1905, Frieda married James Francis Bliss in Manhattan, New York City. He was a dental surgeon from Springfield, Massachusetts.
• Marie Greenwood-Guiberson '', head of the vocal department. She was married to William P. Guiberson, and later to Edmond Smither Worden

• Jane Jarvis
• Baylus Benjamin McKinney
• Harold Newton
• Gladys Swarthout
• Larry Shay
• Harold Triggs
• Pearl White