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Remembering José Antonio Abreu (1939–2018)
The San Diego Symphony has chosen Rafael Payare as its next music director, succeeding Jahja Ling, who led the orchestra from 2004 to 2017. Payare begins a four-year contract immediately, serving as music director designate for the first year, transitioning to music director in 2019. Payare will conduct the San Diego Symphony for ten weeks each season, including performances in the Bayside Summer Nights series. Born in 1980 and a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema music education program, Payare began formal conducting studies in 2004 with José Antonio Abreu. He has served as principal horn of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and as Rafael Payare its conductor. In 2012, he won first prize at the Malko Conducting Competition. He has led numerous major orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. Payare is music director of the Northern Ireland’s Ulster Orchestra, a post he will retain through June 2019. Payare is married to American cellist Alisa Weilerstein. americanorchestras.org
MARIN ALSOP, music
director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will add the chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony position in September 2019.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has appointed director of artistic planning and administration. NATE BACHHUBER
INON BARNATAN has been named music director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, effective 2019.
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra has named ELIZvice president of development.
ABETH BAROODY
is the new executive director of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in Iowa.
BRIAN BAXTER
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City has appointed two new violinists, BENJAMIN BOWMAN and JESSE MILLS. The South Carolina Philharmonic has appointed marketing and public relations director. SAMANTHA BRESKE
is the new executive director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
CHERYLE CAPLINGER
The InterSchool Orchestras of New York has named music director, effective July.
TONG CHEN
FRANCESCO LECCE-CHONG has been named music director of the Santa Rosa Symphony, effective in July. YUGA COHLER is the new music director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut.
Anastasia Chernyavsky
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Payare to Lead San Diego Symphony
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Glenn Ross
José Antonio Abreu, the founder and creator of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and El Sistema music-education initiative, died on March 24 in Caracas. He was 78 and had been battling illness since retiring several years ago. Born on May 7, 1939, Abreu was trained as a musician and an economist. In 1975, he formed the first orchestra of what would become El Sistema, a teaching system through which the Venezuelan government supported free music education for the country’s children, most of them living in poverty. Over four decades, thousands of children went through the program, whose graduates include Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the Los Angeles League of American Orchestras President and CEO Philharmonic. The teaching model has been replicated in Europe, South Jesse Rosen (left) with José Antonio Abreu in 2008, when Abreu addressed delegates at the League’s and North America, and elsewhere. Conference in Denver, Colorado. El Sistema USA, which supports a nationwide alliance of El Sistema-inspired organizations in the United States, has invited all those with personal memories of Abreu to submit them to an online memorial. Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, described Abreu as “an extraordinary musician and leader who revolutionized the orchestral field’s thinking on cultural equity and on the idea of access to the arts as a basic human right. Maestro Abreu showed us how the promise of the most vibrant orchestral experience lies in opening up the connections to our common humanity. Maestro Abreu’s El Sistema has modelled just how that works, and in doing so, he has been a gift to all of us in music—a true testament to the transformational power of orchestral music.”
Lecce-Chong
The Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho has appointed DEREK L. DEAN executive director.
Symphony Tacoma in Washington has named KIT EVANS interim executive director.
Bassoonist REBEKAH HELLER has been appointed co-artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble in New York City. DAVID HYSLOP has been appointed interim president and CEO of the Omaha Symphony in Nebraska.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has appointed DIANA MARIA LARA director of communications. has been named executive director of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra in Colorado.
KATHERINE LEHMAN
has been appointed assistant conductor of Ohio’s Columbus Symphony Orchestra and music director of the CSO’s youth orchestras, effective September 1.
ANDRÉS LOPERA
Lehman
has been named executive producer of Schirmer Theatrical, a subdivision of the music publishing company Music Sales Group.
MICHAEL MUSHALLA
GRETCHEN NIELSEN has been named executive director of From the Top, the National Public Radio show. Nielsen was previously vice president of education initiatives at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The Juilliard School has appointed DAVID ROBERTSON director of conducting studies, effective fall 2018.
ALFRED SAVIA , the long-time music director and conductor of Indiana’s Evansville Philharmonic, will step down at the end of the 2019-20 season.
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