“The Charleston Symphony Orchestra announced Wednesday the selection of Ken Lam as its new music director,” writes Adam Parker in Thursday’s (6/19) Post & Courier (Charleston, South Carolina; subscription required). “He will begin the 2014-15 season, already settled, with the title Music Director Designate and work to firm up programming and educational outreach initiatives for the following season. He will take the podium as the symphony’s new leader in the fall of 2015, when the orchestra first occupies the stage of the newly refurbished Gaillard Center. CSO Executive Director Michael Smith said the word sincerity kept coming up in connection with Lam. … Concertmaster and Acting Artistic Director Yuriy Bekker will remain in charge of the chamber orchestra series at the Dock Street Theatre. He will trade his artistic director title for Director of Chamber Orchestra…. Lam, 43, will relocate to Charleston…. He is currently resident conductor of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, education conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras, and associate professor and director of orchestral studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey.” Lam was a participant in the League of American Orchestras’ 2009 Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview, hosted by the Nashville Symphony.
Posted June 19, 2014
