“Santa Barbara suits Scott Reed,” writes Catherine Womack in Thursday’s (7/27) Los Angeles Times. Since 2010, Reed has been president and chief executive of the Music Academy of the West, where “each summer, more than 100 aspiring professional musicians in their late teens and early 20s … attend the academy as fully funded fellows for an eight-week intensive training program…. Among this year’s master classes is a session with soprano Renee Fleming, and Marilyn Horne will be on campus as the jury leader for the Marilyn Horne Song Competition…. The high demand for Music Academy events is one reason Reed is thrilled about Monday’s 70th anniversary celebratory outdoor concert … Orchestral musician fellows, who make up the Music Academy Festival Orchestra, will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony alongside the New York Philharmonic. [Alan] Gilbert will conduct…. More than 7,000 free and $10 tickets have been made available for the concert.” Also discussed are fundraising, the campus’s $50-million renovation, Reed’s role in “attracting esteemed faculty members and guest artists and senior administrators” and “cultivating audiences and making classical music part of people’s daily lives.”
Posted July 28, 2017
