July 22, 2015

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Things You Should Know

California    
In June, Governor Brown permanently increased the funding to the California Arts Council by $7.1 million, an addition to the initial $1.1 million Arts budget. Read more. 
 
CalNonprofits opposes Senate Bill 549, the proposed raffle law because SB 549 lets professional sports teams and their foundations play by different rules than the rest of us. Read more. 
 
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article27436276.html

U.S. 
The League of American Orchestras has important advocacy messages. Read more.
 
Congratulations! 
 
The California Arts Council has announced $4,328,062 in grants to California nonprofit organizations. Congratulations to these ACSO members:

Association of California Symphony Orchestras - 18,000
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra - $9,000
California Symphony Orchestra - $10,200
Music in the Mountains - $9,240
Oakland East Bay Symphony - $9,000
Ojai Music Festival - $6,333
San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory - $9,600
Santa Cecilia Orchestra - $10,440
Young Musicians Foundation - $9,000
Youth Orchestras of Fresno - $11,640
Up and Down the Scale

The Monterey Symphony has extended music director Max Bragado-Darman's contract for another five years. He has been music director since 2004.      
 
 
 

Ruth L. Elielexecutive director of the Colburn Foundation since 2008 and a former ACSO Board member, has been appointed to the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Board of Directors for a three-year term.

  

 



Laura Jackson has signed a four-year extension to her contract as music director of the Reno Philharmonic. Jackson has been the music director of the Philharmonic since 2009. 
 
 
 
 

Roger Kalia was appointed the assistant conductor of the Pacific Symphony, beginning this September. Kalia replaces assistant conductor Alejandro Gutiļæ½rrez

Kalia, age 30, comes to Orange County from the Charlotte Symphony, where he has served as assistant conductor since September 2013.

  

 

Scott Seaton has been named the new music director of the North State Symphony in Chico, replacing Kyle Wiley Pickett. He will replace Kyle Wiley Pickett, who completed a 14-year tenure as music director with a final performance in May 2014. Seaton recently completed his third season as music director of the Minot Symphony Orchestra in North Dakota. He has also served as assistant conductor of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, and has held posts with the Kent State University Orchestra, the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, and the Nashville Youth Symphony, as well as others. Seaton won the 2011 Interaktion conductor competition in Berlin and was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt, Germany.

  

Michele Zukovsky, principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than five decades, will retire in December. Her last concert with the Philharmonic will be on December 20, and she will retire at the end of that month. 

 
Music Notes
 

Edwin Outwater, Edward Cumming, Benjamin Wallfisch, Gemma New, Lucas Richman, and Eckart Preu are the guest conductors of the 2015-16 Classical Series at the Long Beach Symphony. The season will open on October 10, 2015, and will end on June 4 2016. Read more.   


 

ACSO helped to create two opportunities for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, music director Nicholas McGegan, and Oakland Symphony, music director Michael Morgan to publicize their conductors as part of the San Francisco's Commonwealth Club's Music Matters series (the nation's premier public affairs forum):

Nic McGegan's talk is Friday, August 14 at 12 p.m. 

Michael Morgan and others are doing a panel on Tuesday, August 25 at 6 p.m.

  

Pacific Symphony has awarded four orchestra members with a "Musician Innovation Grant" to fund new artistic projects. The grant's purpose is to give musicians the opportunity for original expression, creativity and experimentation, with the goal of serving new communities and developing new or deeper interest in classical music.

 

On July 10 more than 7,000 Comic-Con attendees left the San Diego Convention Center and descended upon Embarcadero Marina Park South to hear the San Diego Symphony perform a free concert of John Williams' Star Wars music. Read more.

 ACSO Out and About

 

Kris Sinclair, artistic director Jeffrey Kahane, lead sponsor Alan Mason at Sonoma State's Green Music Center's new
ChamberFest June 28

 

Kris Sinclair, Santa Rosa Symphony's Jim Hinton at Jennie Orvino's retirement party in Santa Rosa

 

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

 

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