Oregon Symphony Resident Conductor Gregory Vajda (who has announced that the 2011-2012 season will be his last with the OSO) has just been named Music Director of the Hunstville (Alabama) Symphony beginning with the 2011-2012 season. Many congratulations to Gregory on his new post! Huntsville Symphony website Gregory Vajda’s website
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Hannu Lintu, one of our favorite guest conductors from years past in Oregon, is making quite the splash in the Cincinnati Symphony’s music director search. Read all about it here.
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According to an article in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer, OSO music director Carlos Kalmar might be a potential candidate for their open music director position, being vacated by Paavo Jarvi at the end of this season. Also among those mentioned in the article: James Gaffigan (who will be guest conducting the OSO for our next Classical
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In a stunning announcement to a small group of musicians, staff and board members in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Carlos Kalmar announced that he will be taking the helm of the Seattle Symphony after current music director Gerard Schwarz ends his tenure at the close of the 2010 – 2011 season. Seattle Symphony player representative Timothy
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Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar has been appointed music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE (Spanish Radio/Television Orchestra), effective September 2011. The initial contract is for a five year period. He succeeds British conductor Adrian Leaper, the orchestra’s music director since 2001. It’s not clear what effect this will have on Kalmar’s duties
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Mei-Ann Chen, currently Assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, has been named the new Music Director of the Memphis Symphony! Congratulations to Mei-Ann!
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With Christian Thielmann leaving Munich, and Mario Venzago fired from Indianapolis, it’s interesting to note that both departures (though one was the conductor quitting and the other was the conductor being dismissed) are closely related to the overlapping of two roles in the symphony orchestra hierarchy: the artistic administrator and the music director. For a
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Photo – tforgo|istockphoto.com Drew McManus, the brainchild behind the Adaptistration empire, has recently released compensation reports of many kinds – a valuable service to the industry – the two that most interest me being the salaries for ICSOM concertmasters and music directors. I’ll cut to the chase, since you and I both want to know
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Gregory Vajda OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda is one of the conductors up for music director of the Fairfax Symphony (located in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.). He wrote a blog entry for the orchestra’s blog and gave a very kind shoutout to this blog, so I thought I’d return the favor. He
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Christoph Eschenbach, formerly the embattled music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has taken a position with the National Symphony, which will entail not only being the NSO’s music director, but also being the music director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Reportedly, this will enable him to curate interdisciplinary festivals in the complex,
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Drew McManus has his annual compensation reports available over at adaptistration.com – I’d encourage you to take a look of how much we all get paid is of interest to you. What I found interesting was the relationship of executive and music director compensation to that of the orchestra members. First, a bit of perspective.
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Anthony Tommasini, writing in today’s New York Times, is as bemused as I am by the hand-wringing from the players of the New York Philharmonic on not getting Riccardo Muti as their new music director:
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Conductor David Hattner has been appointed as the fifth conductor and music director of the Portland Youth Phiharmonic, known as America’s first established youth orchestra, founded in 1924. Hattner’s first musical career was as a professional clarinetist, and his positions have included the Princeton Symphony, Cascade Music Festival Orchestra, New Jersey Opera Theater and the
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I just perused a recent article about the Florida Orchestra and some highly-publicized comments from subscribers about the contemporary programming that is being done by music director Stefan Sanderling. I understand that some patrons don’t care for hearing anything written after 1870 or so. Fine. But why do they complain so about hearing something new
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OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda is up for two more music director positions: the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony. From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: The Fort Wayne Philharmonic announced its 2008-09 season during a news conference Tuesday. The season will feature at least 10 different maestros, including eight conducting candidates who
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