June 15, 2015

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Things You Should Know

New NEA Report
Beyond The Building: Performing Arts & Transforming Place

  

National Arts Marketing, Development and Ticketing Conference, October 22 - 24, 2015, in San Francisco. ACSO members are entitled to a $130 discount off the registration price and can bring two colleagues for FREE if registered by July 31.

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CalNonprofits Convention in November: 

An Economic and Political Forecast for the Nonprofit Sector.  

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Read the extraordinary press release on California music festivals that ACSO member Festival Mozaic's Bettina Swigger put together.

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Up and Down the Scale

Christian Baldini, music director of the Camellia Symhony in Sacramento has a new recording. He conducts Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 
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On June 6, Stephen Jay Carlton, former executive director of the Peninsula Symphony in Los Altos, was sentenced to nine years in prison
. Carlton, 46, was convicted of tax fraud in December 2014 after pleading no contest in November to forgery, theft, and the embezzlement of at least $244,000 belonging to the Peninsula Symphony Association. Read more.     
  
News about ACSO board president Debbie Chinn: 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott Heckes, deputy director of the California Arts Council, has announced his retirement at the end of this year. Scott started his journey at the CAC as a volunteer for two years after which he began working full-time as an assistant arts grants administrator, and continued in various roles for 31 years. Read a special tribute.  

 

Jeffrey Kahane will curate the inaugural Green Music Center ChamberFest, which will consist of eight concerts in 240-seat Schroeder Hall beginning on June 24. Schroeder Hall, named by philanthropist Jean Schulz in recognition of her late husband, cartoonist Charles Schulz, for the Peanuts' miniature Beethoven-worshipping pianist opened a year ago. The right venue for chamber music, is also houses a 1,248-pipe Brombaugh organ.

 

 

Former ACSO Board member and president and CEO of the Ordway Center in Minneapolis, Pat Mitchell, generally credited with transforming the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts from the start of her tenure in 2007, plans to retire at the end of 2015. Prior to Ordway, Mitchell was COO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic until 2004, She served as executive director of San Francisco Opera, and subsequently for Los Angeles Opera. She and Melanie Beene were largely responsible for the seminal work, "Autopsy of an Orchestra," published in 1988 about the demise of the Oakland Symphony.


The San Diego Symphony has appointed Sameer Patel as its new assistant conductor. Patel, who was most recently associate conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, was chosen from an applicant pool of 165 to succeed Ken-Davis Masur, who is moving to the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  
   

 

Kensho Watanabe, the San Diego Symphony's new conducting fellow, was a finalist in the orchestra's assistant conductor search. He recently completed his tenure as the Curtis Institute of Music's inaugural conducting fellow under Yannick N�zet-S�guin. Watanabe received a diploma in conducting from Curtis in 2013 and a master's degree in violin from the Yale School of Music in 2010. 

 

 

David Wax, executive director of the Sacramento Symphony in the early 80s has died. He was 73. David went on to run the Houston Symphony for 10 years and then to the Rhode Island Philharmonic's executive director from 2000 to 2007, died on May 21, the orchestra has announced.  

Music Notes
 
The Long Beach Symphony and Long Beach Camerata Singers announced that they have formed an artistic partnership that will facilitate the presentation of works requiring both choral and orchestral components.
  
 Thanks to a partnership between the Pacific Symphony's Santa Ana Strings and the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana, 50 elementary school children received a new, shiny violin and have returned for a six-month pilot program (with plans to expand to year-round) that provides after-school violin instruction by Symphony and volunteer musicians.

The Chula Vista School District used Twitter today to direct people to a new article on their blog inspired by the NAMM Foundation video about the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory Opus musician Bruno Bello. The blog posting details the incredible growth of music education in Chula Vista since it was launched Opus in 2010. It also announces that SDYS and CVESD are jointly receiving an award at Yale this weekend for the success of our partnership. The full blog posting is here.  
 

A project of the Youth Orchestras of Fresno offers an internationally acclaimed faculty on June 12-28 at the Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy.  The two-tiered program offers intensive training for both the aspiring younger musician and the pre-professional advance  player.

Classes/rehearsals/lessons/practice will fill the day, 9 am to 6 pm (with some great evening opportunities as well), on the Fresno State campus.

Visit foosamusic.org

 

 

 

 ACSO Out and About
A Long Beach Symphony Board meeting: Front Row: Pauline Eade-Sheppard, Mary Hester, Kelly Ruggirello
Back Row: Bobbie Cusato, Debbie Chinn, Kris Sinclair
NancyBell Coe & Joe Truskot at an ACSO Board meeting in Carmel

 

At an Auburn Symphony concert: Kris Sinclair, music director Peter Jaffe, president Jennifer Montgomery

 

RMH Wine Release in SF: ACSO Board members Donna Williams & Alan Mason with George Sinclair

 

 47th Annual Conference
 
August 6-8, 2015 in Long Beach
 

 

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