Pasadena Symphony and POPS has announced a contract extension of principal pops conductor Michael Feinstein through the 2019 season. Feinstein was originally contracted in June 2013 for a one-year term which was immediately extended to run through the 2016 season following his critically acclaimed conducting debut.
Gregg Gleasner, of independent artistic services firm Gleasner Music, is the new artistic administrator of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Gleasner had been assisting the Orchestra with its artistic leadership transition, and had previously had the position of director of artistic planning at the San Francisco Symphony. Gleasner's appointment follows the resignation of Daren Fuster as director of artistic operations.
The American Youth Symphony has announced that Carlos Izcaray will be its new music director, and Juan Felipe Molano will be its new resident conductor.
Izcaray, current music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, has toured throughout the US and Europe as a guest conductor, and has partnered with leading world music education institutions including El System in Venezuela, Cambridge University Music Society, London Schools Symphony Orchestra, and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Molano currently conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), and had previously held the position of conductor with the Colombian Youth Philharmonic and the Batata Colombian System of Youth Orchestras. Molano served as music director of the Yucatan Symphony Orchestra for five years, and has conducted many top orchestras throughout Europe, the US, Asia, and South and Central America.
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