MARK WILLIAMS has been appointed director of artistic planning at the Cleveland Orchestra, effective January 7, 2013. Since 2009 he has served as artistic administrator at the San Francisco Symphony. Williams was previously an artist manager at IMG Artists in New York, and had begun his administrative career at another New York-based firm, Columbia Artists Management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in horn performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University, where his primary teachers were Cleveland Orchestra musicians Richard Solis and Richard King. Williams also studied with Julie Landsman and Michelle Baker of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and performed in masterclasses led by New York Philharmonic Principal Horn Philip Myers.
Posted November 27, 2012
