A Wooster native and graduate of The College of Wooster, Jarrod has worked as a not-for-profit arts manager and arts educator at both the local community and state-wide levels. Hartzler has worked at Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster, the Delaware County Cultural Arts Center in Delaware, OH, and recently served as Executive Director of VSA arts of Ohio in Columbus. In addition to his new role with the ASO he is also the Managing Director of the Wooster Chamber Music Series. Through these positions he has coordinated community arts and education programs, and worked to establish partnerships with schools and other arts and community organizations.
Hartzler has participated in several education programs of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including the Partners in Education program with the Tri-County ESC and Wayne Center for the Arts. He was a 2008 fellow in the Kennedy Center’s Arts Management Institute where he studied with Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and worked with senior Kennedy Center staff to implement marketing, development and education strategies.