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Announcing Our Partnership with CutTime!

by | Nov 13, 2025

The School Music License team is thrilled to announce a new partnership with CutTime, a leading provider of fine arts program management software for K-12 schools.

Used by fine arts educators across North America, CutTime helps streamline everything from inventory and financials to communication and fundraising, saving teachers time and simplifying their program administration. With a shared vision for strengthening music education and helping students shine on stage and online, this partnership reflects our collective effort to support the future of K-12 schools. 

Read the full press release below!

 

Featured photo used with permission from Canva. 

Our special thanks to Michelle Batten, Chief Marketing Officer with CutTime, LLC for her collaboration on this press release. To learn more about our colleagues at CutTime, please visit their website.

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  • Brenna C. Horn-Cronin serves as Executive General Manager of School Music License. Combining her passions for arts management, music, hospitality, and education, she leads School Music License by helping schools make the most of their arts and athletics programs. She is also the recipient of the 2026 Music Publishers Association Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy. Prior to this role, she served as General Manager of ONE LICENSE, ensuring that tens of thousands of churches around the world secured their music copyright licensing permissions. She has been with GIA Publications since 2016. She has a heart for social justice, grassroots community building, and servant leadership. In addition to her certification as a Teaching Artist, she’s also a decades long Yoga Instructor, specifically serving special populations. Brenna currently serves as the Sponsorship Chair for the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association, previously served as the Theatre for Young Audiences representative on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Theatre Association, and supports the education justice efforts for young women in Rwanda through Africa New Life, an organization that works with families still recovering from the generational trauma of genocide. Brenna lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her wife and family and is a proud alumna of Northwestern University (MSLCE, Summa Cum Laude) and Western Michigan University (BA). 

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Brenna C. Horn-Cronin

Brenna C. Horn-Cronin

Brenna C. Horn-Cronin serves as Executive General Manager of School Music License. Combining her passions for arts management, music, hospitality, and education, she leads School Music License by helping schools make the most of their arts and athletics programs. She is also the recipient of the 2026 Music Publishers Association Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy. Prior to this role, she served as General Manager of ONE LICENSE, ensuring that tens of thousands of churches around the world secured their music copyright licensing permissions. She has been with GIA Publications since 2016. She has a heart for social justice, grassroots community building, and servant leadership. In addition to her certification as a Teaching Artist, she’s also a decades long Yoga Instructor, specifically serving special populations. Brenna currently serves as the Sponsorship Chair for the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association, previously served as the Theatre for Young Audiences representative on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Theatre Association, and supports the education justice efforts for young women in Rwanda through Africa New Life, an organization that works with families still recovering from the generational trauma of genocide. Brenna lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her wife and family and is a proud alumna of Northwestern University (MSLCE, Summa Cum Laude) and Western Michigan University (BA).