June 17, 2016
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Music Notes
 
The Fresno Philharmonic has received a $200,000 gift from The William T. Coyle and Wanda G. Coyle Charitable Trust. In accordance with the terms of the trust, the funds will be used to sponsor one Fresno Philharmonic concert per season for the next ten seasons. Prior gifts from the trust to the Fresno Philharmonic endowed the assistant principal cello chair in the orchestra and sponsored a concert in 2010 featuring Itzhak Perlman.
 
Pacific Symphony president John Forsyte and life directors Damien and Yvonne Jordan have been chosen as recipients of the Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award from Arts Orange County. The Award recognizes extraordinary contributions to the arts and culture over an individual's lifetime. The awards will be presented at the 17th Annual Orange County Arts Awards on Tuesday, October 25, 2016. 
Up and Down the Scale

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.
 
Errata
 
In the June 2nd Semiquavers San Diego Symphony retiring pianist Mary Barranger's name was misspelled. We mistakenly reported that the American Youth Symphony's new resident conductor Juan Felipe Molano had left the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) of which he continues to conduct.
 
We apologize and have corrected them in the archived version of the June 2nd Semiquavers available for viewing on our website.

ACSO Out and About

On June 10, 2016, the League of American Orchestras honored ACSO executive director
Kris Sinclair with the Gold Baton award at the League's Annual Conference in Baltimore. 
 
 
League CEO Jesse Rosen, Kris Sinclair,
SFS executive director Brent Assink presented the award to Kris

 
The CA crowd: Beth Vandervennet, Rachelle Roe, Alice Sauro, Kris,
Lacey Huszcza, Aubrey Bergauer,

George Sinclair, Brent Assink, Steve Payne 
 
 
Jennifer Pimbley Rubenstein (ACSO's first executive assistant)Kris Sinclair
 
 
Ann Meier Baker, director of music & opera, NEA;
Susan Feder, program associate, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Kris Sinclair; 
Pat Richards, chair, League of American Orchestras 
 
 
 
CalNonprofits board member Kris Sinclair visited the California Assembly at the
California State Capitol on Monday, June 13th.
The Assembly voted to designate Wednesday, June 22nd as California Nonprofits Day.

 
Kris Sinclair; Jan Masaoka, CEO, CalNonprofits;
Assemblymember Rich Gordon (D Menlo Park) 
 
 
California Assembly Floor   
 

Take to the Road - Summer Music Festivals in California!

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