Veteran journalist Timothy Mangan has been appointed to the newly created position of writer in residence at the Pacific Symphony. Mangan was music critic of the Orange County Register from 1998 to 2016 and founder of the blog ClassicalLife.net (created in 2006 to cover the Pacific Symphony’s European tour). He has written for Symphony magazine, the Baltimore Sun, Gramophone, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Musical America, and Opera News, among other publications. He is co-editor of Paul Bowles on Music, published in 2003 by the University of California Press. In announcing the appointment, Pacific Symphony President John Forsyte said, “As writer-in-residence, Tim Mangan will be a collaborative partner in engaging current and new culture-seekers in innovative ways.”

Posted May 2, 2017