September 24, 2015
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Meet Our New Board Members
 
Before joining the California Symphony in the fall of 2014 as executive director, Aubrey Bergauer worked at Seattle's leading cultural institutions: Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, and most recently as senior director of external affairs at One Reel. A graduate of Rice University, Aubrey holds degrees in Music Performance and Business.

Jeri Crawford is president and CEO of the Las Vegas Philharmonic since 2008 and has served on the organization's Board since 2005. During that time she has bolstered the organization's presence through expanding initiatives focused on youth enrichment and community engagement. She is a founder of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts; co-founder and president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America-Nevada and serves on its National Board of Directors and New Business Committee. 
 
In July of 2011, Amy Williams joined the Santa Barbara Symphony as the director of education and community engagement. Prior to the Symphony, she was the production and education manager with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for four years working on programming concerts and directing its education and community outreach activities.
 
Stephen Wilson is the president and CEO of the Fresno Philharmonic since 2012. Prior to that he served as executive director of the Binghamton Philharmonic in New York for 12 years. Stephen is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School and has a Master's Degree in European History from Binghamton University. In Fresno, Stephen has dramatically expanded the orchestra's education programming which now reaches over 8,000 students. His efforts were recently recognized by the Yale School of Music's Distinguished Music Educator Award. He has also initiated new collaborative partnerships with the Fresno Art Museum, the Fresno Dance Collective and Fresno State University. Stephen serves on the Board of the Valley Cultural Coalition and on the advisory Board for Fresno Unified School District's Any Given Child Arts Education initiative.
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Up and Down the Scale 
 
Read the interview in the San Francisco Classical Voice with ACSO Board Member and the California Symphony executive director, Aubrey Bergauer.




Las Vegas Philharmonic president and CEO, 
Jeri Crawford, has been named to the National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees (NSONT), an advisory board with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 
 
 
 
After a 30-year career as general manager of the San Francisco Symphony, John Kieser moves to the New World Symphony in Miami as executive vice president and provost. As one of a four-member national team, John negotiated a groundbreaking live recording agreement with the American Federation of Musicians. John also created SFS Media, the first successful U.S. orchestra owned and operated label at a time when the recording industry was in disarray. The Mahler recording cycle alone on SFS Media has garnered seven Grammys.    

Gloria S. Kim joined the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as its new vice president of artistic operations. Previously, Kim served as associate dean for artistic programming and operations of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and as manager of annual fund at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
 
 
Francie Levy, who retired as executive director of the Tulare County Symphony last year after seven years, has excepted the position of general manager with San Luis Obispo Symphony. As the head administrator, she will guide the Symphony staff and focus primarily on donor and community relations. She will also be a key member of the search and selection committee for the Symphony's new music director. That search will begin in the next two months.
 
The LA Philharmonic announced the appointment of Yuval Sharon as the organization's artist-collaborator. The three-year appointment begins next season. Sharon is the recipient of the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize in Germany for his production of John Adams' Doctor Atomic. He founded and serves as artistic director of The Industry, an experimental opera company in Los Angeles. Yuval was project director for four years of New York City Opera's VOX, an annual workshop of new American opera. He was assistant director to Achim Freyer on the Los Angeles Opera Ring Cycle and associate director of the world premiere of Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht for the London 2012 Cultural Olympics.
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George Cleve, music director of the defunct San Jose Symphony for 20 years, passed away on August 27 in Berkeley at the age of 79. Cleve was the founder and music director of the San Francisco Midsummer Mozart Festival for 41 seasons. A Mozart scholar, he conducted with many symphonies in and outside the US. 
 
 
Robert Commanday (right) with Gordon Getty and soprano Lisa Delan
Robert Commanday 
passed away on September 3 in Oakland at the age of 93. Commanday, along with his wife, cellist Mary Stevens Commanday, established San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV), a now important online publication about classical music. Bob was the San Francisco Chronicle's music and dance critic for almost 30 years. He cared deeply about the classical music scene and was not shy about getting to the truth of a story. 

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