Kevin Flint has been appointed director of marketing and audience development at the Santa Barbara Symphony. Kevin has over twenty years of diverse marketing experience, including in the motion picture industry, electronic and print advertising and mail order/ecommerce.  

GG Arts Law is the new name of Brian Taylor Goldstein's law firm, (formerly FTM Arts Law).

Former ACSO Board member Jeff Haydon is stepping down as executive director of the Ojai Music Festival to accept a new appointment as CEO of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts just outside of Manhattan. Jeff has served as executive director of the Festival since 2003.





 

Long Beach Symphony Orchestra (LBSO) executive director and ACSO Board member, Robert (Bob) C. Jones, will leave his position effective September 30 to return to his home in Maryland. Jones joined LBSO as a consultant in 2009 and as executive director in 2010. He has led the board and staff in eliminating accumulated deficits and alleviating its cash-flow crisis while working to instill confidence and build community support for the Orchestra. Jones has worked tirelessly to raise funds for the LBSO along with successfully negotiating the musicians' union contract and reorganizing LBSO's business operations to work more efficiently and effectively. Bob and his wife Susan will be joining a growing arts management firm, Chesapeake International Artists. 

Farkhad Khudyev has been appointed music director and conductor of Youth Music Monterey County.  Khudyev recently completed his graduate degree in conducting at Yale University and conducted the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the National Orchestra of Ashgabat in his native Turkmenistan.

Kelly Cornell Weichbrod has been named director of development for the Santa Barbara Symphony.She has held positions with the Laguna Art Museum, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore. Most recently she was the associate director of development for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cal State University, Fullerton. 

 

Cindi Young has been appointed executive director of the Hutchins  Consort. Ms. Young most recently worked as marketing and development director at Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and also worked for 18 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, eight years as executive assistant to the late Ernest Fleischmann. She continued to partner with Fleischmann in his international arts management firm, specializing in artistic searches and the marketing and management of music festivals. Thereafter, Ms. Young became endowment campaign coordinator for the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, where she continued as development director before leaving to produce marketing and public relations programs for Orange County non-profits with Young Company Creative Marketing Communications.