The Santa Cruz Symphony has hired Nigel Armstrong as its new concertmaster. As a soloist, Armstrong has performed with orchestras such as the Dusseldorf Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, YOA Orchestra of the Americas, and the Boston Pops. As a chamber musician, Armstrong has performed across the US and abroad, including with the Tokyo String Quartet, with tango musicians in Argentina, and with pianist Jonathan Biss. Armstrong is a graduate of the Colburn School and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Jaren Bonillo is the new arts program specialist for the Statewide and Regional Networks Program at the California Arts Council. Prior to joining the CAC, Bonillo served as the executive director of the Imagine Bus Project where she shepherded the organization through a program model revision, improved the internal operations and infrastructure of the organization, and grew the organization threefold. Bonillo also served as treasurer for the Arts Providers Alliance's executive committee in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Tod Brody, who has served as executive director of Opera Parall�le for the last three years, has been hired as the new executive director of the Marin Symphony effect August 1, 2016. Brody, a professional flutist, has performed with the Marin Symphony in the past, and will continue to lecture on music at the University of California at Davis.
Keith Herritt has resigned as executive director of the North State Symphony.
Herritt became executive director of the Symphony in 2004, following a decade as operations manager of the Santa Rosa Symphony. Herritt previously held staff and musician posts with the Napa Valley and Vallejo Symphonies, and performed on viola as a "Freeway Philharmonic" musician. Under Herritt's the North State Symphony doubled its budget size and increased its endowment substantially.
|
|
Michigan's Adrian Symphony Orchestra has named ACSO Board member Bruce Kiesling as its new music director. Kiesling's tenure will officially begin July 1. Kiesling, who conducted the Orchestra as a candidate in April, is the current music director of the Tulare County Symphony, music director of the Pasadena Youth Symphony Philharmonic, and conductor of the orchestra and opera performances at the University of California Santa Cruz. Kiesling succeeds John Thomas Dodson, who stepped down at the end of the Orchestra's 2014-15 season.
The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra has named Lorna Robles its new development associate. Robles, a former fundraising professional at the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, will oversee individual gifts and annual giving.
|